Pokemon Pearl was the first game I ever really “bought” myself. It was the first time I ever took my 7 year old ass to the shop, and purchased a game. Ever since that day in in 2007, I’ve been hooked on the Pokemon franchise. I’d watch the cartoon almost every day after school, and... Continue Reading →
Over a year after it’s release in April 2019, the indie survival-craft game Forager has everyone talking again after it’s inclusion in the Humble Bundle’s September Humble Choice bundle - incidentally, that’s where I picked it up from too! I’m a huge fan of the survival-craft genre having sunk more hours into Minecraft and Terraria... Continue Reading →
City-builder games, sometimes known as “Colony Sims”, are a subsection of strategy games that are based around taking charge of a city or settlement, and helping it to grow and expand. They are as old as gaming itself - one of the first and most famous Colony Sim’s was SimCity released in 1989 which... Continue Reading →
Greetings, friends and onlookers. Are you sitting comfortably? Good. Then gather round, and I will tell you a story of how a game franchise cheated death via the awesome power of Kickstarter. Few video game developers/publishers have suffered a fall from glory greater than Konami. Although Konami have developed some of the most famous videogame... Continue Reading →
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the first ever Super Mega Series Review on this site! This review format is going to be quite different from the others. This time, I'm going to be comparing multiple different titles of the same franchise on the same platform, and seeing how they measure up against each other The... Continue Reading →
Coming into 2020, my New Year's Resolution was to break into some franchises that have so far been distinctly missing from my Steam library. One of those franchises was Far Cry. For whatever reason, I sailed through my teens never having played a Far Cry game, and never really wanting to either. In hindsight, this... Continue Reading →
Let me first address the elephant in the room. I am really late to the Witcher 3 craze. About 5 years late to be exact. And I acknowledge that there is absolutely nothing original or insightful left to say about this game, but damn it, that won’t stop me from trying! The amount of hype... Continue Reading →
It's that time of year again. A time of laughter, joy, and getting games for £0.99 on Steam. Oh, you thought I meant the season of summer? No, I mean the Summer Sales! (What better time to lock yourself away indoors playing video games, right?) I thought it would be nice to kick off this... Continue Reading →
In August, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, originally released in 2012, is being remastered. I thought now would be a great time to share my thoughts on the title. I found this game in my husbands old PS3 collections, and it caught my attention enough for me to purchase my own copy to play on PC.... Continue Reading →
