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 →
If you say "videogame," most people will think of a 2D-platformer. It's one of the all-time classic videogame genres - think Super Mario, Sonic, Mega-Man, Metroid. Stealth games are also extremely popular, with the Metal Gear series alone having shifted over 56 million copies since the 1980s. Puzzle games have become quintessential to the modern... Continue Reading →
I think we can all agree that 2020 has been a hellish year. Global pandemics, national lockdowns, political upheaval, civil unrest. It's been truly ungodly. All we need now is for a global famine and we'll have had a visit from all four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the space of twelve months. Aren't we... Continue Reading →
The release of Fire Emblem: Three Houses on the Nintendo Switch was the first time that the Fire Emblem series ever truly went mainstream. Since its release in July 2019, almost three million copies of the game have sold and won multiple awards in the strategy and simulation categories. Despite being such a big hit,... Continue Reading →
Ever wanted to experience the highs and lows of being a computer programmer, but with cute robots instead of coffee and dimly-lit offices? Today is your lucky day. May I present Autonauts: Age of Enlightenment, developed by Denki Games (presumably with lots of coffee and in a dimly lit office), a resource-management game with a... Continue Reading →
