Video Game Reviews, Articles
During the late nineties and early-noughties, the vast majority of shooters had one of two thematic genres: World War II and Sci-Fi. It was a time of seminal titles like Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Medal of Honour: Allied Assault, Doom…
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Recently I played a game called Horace. Then, after finishing it, I played it again. And again. I’m still not certain I’ve seen everything the game has to offer yet – and still missing some of the achievements as well…
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Boy, do I love the videogame hype machine! Don’t you? It gets us not-game journos to write a lot very quickly, and sometimes scramble to pick and choose what we should write on. Anyway! My unrequited love for caffeine and…
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It’s-a me, Mario Working full time and being a parent of three kids, including twins, can make it hard to fit in the same type of gaming schedule that I used to maintain in my youth. Still, I like a…
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Fallout is a long and well respected AAA series in the industry, no two ways around that. Even back in the 00’s, its budget was north of a million dollars. However, nobody really talked about it after Van Buren got…
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An eye-opening editorial from the perspective of one League of Legends fan who spent well over £1,000 on in-game purchases.
To enter the grim, magical (but not in the good way) and ruthless world of Dark Souls is a daunting experience. The hype surrounding FromSoftware’s “Soulslike” games is a now-legendary and quite honestly alienating reputation that leaves no doubts as…
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It’s a little difficult to picture, but please try. Ten years ago, Valve used to make videogames! Crazy, I know. With all the Back 4 Blood talk on outlets, and how I’ve been into self-torture heavily as of late, I…
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In ‘No Pay 2 Play’, we review free video games (whether they’re riddled with microtransactions and season passes or not) and then answer the golden question: is it worth adding to your game library? Boring Stuff Developed and published by…
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A luxurious port of a cult-classic title. Once you get a taste for Blood, you’ll struggle to cure your addiction.
Zombie games have been done to death up to this point. Then again, that’s not to say there are no good ones out there anymore, far from it. Anthony Karlov of Ant.Karlov Games has been making small-name browser games for…
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Twee platformers have been a thing for years and years now. Trine in particular takes after the twee-est thing to ever exist: LittleBigPlanet or The Next Big Thing, as it’s development codename confidently stated. Now clearly, a game about little…
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Atmospheric, engrossing, and rife with anthropomorphism, the prologue for the upcoming noir-inspired adventure game Backbone by EggNut certainly perked up the ears of many gamers. What’s on offer in this free-to-download Steam demo – of which can be completed in…
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Some call ‘em top-down shooters and play on the keyboard, others call ‘em twin-stick shooters and prefer a controller. No matter which way you go, it’s safe to say there are plenty of awesome games in this genre. Here are…
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In ‘No Pay 2 Play’, we review free video games (whether they’re riddled with microtransactions and season passes or not) and then answer the golden question: is it worth adding to your game library? Boring Stuff Developed by SideQuestNZ…
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