Oh, yeah, this is totally for kids Did you ever watch the film Watership Down as a child? You know, that film from the 80s about fluffy bunnies getting brutally slaughtered by dogs, birds and bigger psycho bunnies, that subtly traumatised an entire generation of kids? Yeah, you know the one. For most British kids,... Continue Reading →
When it comes to videogame franchises, there is little doubt that Pokémon is the very best, like no-one ever was. Having grossed $92 billion since 1996 it is not only the highest grossing videogame franchise of all time, but also the highest grossing media franchise of all time. Most people are introduced to the world... Continue Reading →
For many centuries, the world's greatest philosophers and thinkers have pondered over why all the most ridiculous and over-the-top creations always seem come out of Japan. Whilst we are no closer to answering this most confounding of conundrums, in the meantime, Japanese videogame developers continue to anoint the world with some of the weirdest and... Continue Reading →
Kickstarter has delivered us some legendary games over the years: Pillars of Eternity, Shovel Knight, the Banner Saga and now Blasphemous, a metroidvania action-adventure game developed by The Game Kitchen, can be added to the portfolio. Needless to say, Blasphemous isn't the first successful metroidvania title Kickstarter has produced - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night... Continue Reading →
Square Enix have been absolutely knocking it out of the park these last couple of years, churning out top quality titles - Dragon Quest XI, the Final Fantasy remakes, Nier:Automata, etc - like it's going out of style. So when Octopath Traveller hit the scene in 2018, Square Enix's new JRPG with a swanky multi-narrative... Continue Reading →
The videogame industry has absolutely exploded in the last fifteen years. There are so many games being developed these days that it would be totally inconceivable to even keep track of them all, never mind to actually play all the newest games on release. In a market this saturated, it has become more difficult than... Continue Reading →
Immortals: Fenyx Rising was Ubisoft's first release on the new PS5 and X-box Series X consoles. It's a colourful, light-hearted action-adventure game - with some platforming and puzzles woven into the mix - set in Ancient Greece. The protagonist, Fenyx (which is pronounced "Fee-nix" by the way, instead of "Fen-ix" which is how it's spelt... Continue Reading →
Do you love exploring fantastical video game worlds, but hate interacting with strangers? Do you spend enough time pretending to like stupid people at work, and don't want to keep doing it whilst you're gaming? Do you just want to quietly roleplay in peace, without having angry neckbeards telling you to "get gud" until they... Continue Reading →
When I think back to my time spent playing Monster Hunter Tri on my 3DS until the small hours of the morning on a school night, never would I have imagined that my favourite franchise in the whole world would one day arrive on my PC. Yet, here we are. There is no greater joy in... Continue Reading →
As a kid, I always considered myself to be a “die-hard fantasy-RPG junkie.” What I meant by that, of course, was that I had pumped an unholy number of hours into Skyrim but had no interest in anything else the fantasy-RPG world had to offer. Tragic. Alas, I regret to say that I spent my... Continue Reading →
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