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Call of Duty: MW2 remaster rumours gather steam
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: is arguably the last goliath of the last console generation yet to make its way to the PS4 and Xbox One. Not that there hasn’t been demand — in 2015, a petition launched...
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Anthem reeks of EA’s stifling over-ambition
Aside from what we saw at E3 2017, we don’t know all that much about Anthem. Not much, except EA want it to be huge, describing it as “the start of maybe a 10 year journey” for developers Bioware....
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Review: Sea of Thieves
My crew are raiding an island fort, taking out skeletons like professional pirates. We spot sails in the distance, and rush to our ship to give chase and claim us some loot. Only, that boat is actually...
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Review: The Council – Episode 1, ‘The Mad Ones’
With the resurgent advent of point-and-click or “choose your own adventure” games spearheaded by Telltale Games in the last 5 years, Big Bad Wolf’s debut episodic IP, The Council, is not exactly...
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Review: A Way Out
Hazelight Studios might not be a name you’ve heard of before, but you certainly will do in the years to come after their recent release, A Way Out. Spoiler alert: I liked this one. A lot. Hazelight’s...
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Review: Far Cry 5
Many people, I think, saw Far Cry 5 as the game that would rejuvenate the Far Cry series. After the success Assassin’s Creed: Origins had in revising its own tired formula, Far Cry 5 looked set to be a...
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Valve axe Steam Machines from storefront
In 2015, game distributors and developers Valve released the long-rumoured Steam Machines — a gaming platform that promised to unify the laid-back, “pick up and play” philosophy of consoles, with...
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Replayability and the illusion of choice: the Telltale paradox
Once industry darlings for a refreshed approach to narrative storytelling, Telltale games, who now dominate a niche they arguably carved out themselves, have found themselves at somewhat of an impasse...
View ArticleDivinity: Original Sin 2 coming to consoles
The 2017 PC hit, Divinity: Original Sin 2, has been confirmed for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The turn-based RPG, developed by Larian Studios, will arrive on next-gen consoles in August 2018,...
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New BioShock game is reportedly in the works
Last week, Kotaku wrote an article taking a look at the rapidly declining Hangar 13 — the studio behind 2016’s Mafia III — a piece that might have kept a fairly low-profile had it not been for the raw,...
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Microtransaction database launches online
A new website, microtransaction.zone, has been launched with the sole purpose of informing prospective buyers on a range of practices considered anti-consumerist, including — as one might expect —...
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Review: God of War
The past year has seen a number of important launches for long-standing but ailing franchises: Activision’s Call of Duty, Ubisoft’s Far Cry and Assassin’s Creed. The world of games journalism has...
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Kratos and the Almighty Back-hander
In case you’ve been living under a Mount Olympus-sized rock for the past week or two, you might have noticed that a certain little franchise called God of War released its latest installment, and with...
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Walmart leaks E3
As if we weren’t already chomping at the bit given that E3 is less than a month away: ever heard of Walmart? Yeah, that huge multinational corporation who own Asda and about a thousand other companies....
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Games, guerrilla marketing, and E3
The past year or so has not been the best that the games industry has seen: following debacles around huge ‘AAA’ titles like Destiny 2, Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, and Star Wars: Battlefront II,...
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Nintendo announces online for the Switch
In January, the Nintendo Switch became the fastest selling console ever in the US, with nearly 18 million units sold worldwide as of April 2018 — all of this without any online functionality. Whilst...
View ArticleFormula One series set to return in 2018
Months before its release, Codemasters has announced on their official Twitter page the release date of their latest installment in their FORMULA ONE™ series, F1 2018, for August the 24th 2018. Fans...
View ArticleBethesda announce Fallout 76
Finally, after years of speculation, Bethesda released the official trailer for Fallout 76: not an Obsidian-developed game, not a remastered version of Fallout 3 or Fallout New Vegas, but a completely...
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Ubisoft confirm Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
After the recent Walmart leaks and the likes of Bethesda having to cash in on the buzz with their announcement of Rage 2, not to mention having just dropped the proverbial atom bomb that is Fallout 76,...
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Review: G30 – A Memory Maze
No one can really understand the suffering that a person goes through when they are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. We can hear personal accounts or know someone in our lives who are affected by...
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