Hollowpoint Features

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Preview: Adding a new dimension to the side-scrolling shooter. Quite literally.

Side-scrolling arcade shooters are ten a penny in the cluttered aisles of the Steam store, so when yet another one’s announced it’s easy to dismiss it as something you’ve played a hundred times before. In the case of Scottish studio Ruffian Games’ (best known for the admittedly rather underwhelming Crackdown 2) intriguing effort Hollowpoint, I think doing so would be a mistake. There’s some interesting ideas on...