Review: Far Cry 3: Classic Edition
UbiSoft’s open world formula – with the most familiar and overused elements being towers revealing environments strewn with various collectables, represented by bewildering arrays of icons on map screens – […]
Preview: Aliens: Fireteam
Video games based on the ever-popular Aliens franchise have been a mixed bunch, despite the premise put forth in the movies, particularly 1986’s Aliens, being absolutely perfect for gaming. At […]
News: Bethesda on Game Pass
It’s been a pretty eventful couple of weeks for Microsoft’s subscription service, with the company’s Bethesda deal finally being approved by the EU – which has resulted in 20 of […]
Review: Monopoly Plus
If you tell anyone outside of the gaming community that one of your hobbies is ‘board games’, the inevitable next question you’ll hear is “Oh, like Monopoly?”. It’s unbelievably ubiquitous […]
Review: Shotgun Farmers
Available now on PC, Mac and Xbox One Given how popular first person shooters are – and how lucrative the big budget, triple-A FPS games are – it’s perhaps surprising […]
News: Sea of Thieves: Season One (Update)
Following on from the recent news that Sea of Thieves is moving away from its monthly updates to a three-monthly ‘Seasons’ structure, further details have now been announced. Perhaps the […]
News: Sea of Thieves: Season One
Since it was launched in 2018, Sea of Thieves has seen regular content updates on a mostly monthly basis – all for free (though of course premium cosmetic items have […]
My Favourite Video Game of 2020
I picked up my Xbox One X in late 2019, having sat out Microsoft’s console for much of the generation thanks to its absolutely disastrous launch reveal and all of […]
Sea of Thieves: A True Story
It started off as it always does; my pirate regaining consciousness, probably after too much grog, in the outpost’s tavern. From there, I met up with another crewmember – let’s […]
Preview: Farm Mechanic Simulator
The world of simulator games used to be incredibly niche; back in the days when video games were looked down upon by the general public, even gamers themselves would often […]
Opinion: Next Gen – Again
I know I’ve written about this before, but something weird has happened not just with the ‘new’ next gen consoles, but also with the last few generations: I’m just not […]
Game Pass Adventures
With next generation launching – and no exclusive next gen only titles launched – it’s fallen to a huge influx of Game Pass games to do some of the heavy […]
Book Review: Minecraft Dungeons: The Rise of the Arch-Illager
Having read and enjoyed Matt Forbeck’s books before – one of my favourites being magic heist story Vegas Knights – I was keen to check out the Minecraft Dungeons prequel, […]
Review: Roundguard
When Peggle arrived way back in 2007, it was an absolute sensation. Despite only appearing on the PC initially, PopCap’s pachinko-esque title – with pinball style lights and sounds – […]
Review: Hidden Through Time
Tapping into the same addictive character spotting, scene scanning fun that you get from the Where’s Wally (or Waldo, if you’re across the Atlantic) books, Hidden Through Time is a […]
Review: Batman: The Telltale Series – The Enemy Within
I’m a big fan of the story-based games that the now defunct Telltale Games specialised in. They seemed to perfect the formula with The Walking Dead in 2012, after a […]
