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 →
Just because Immortals: Fenyx Rising isn’t original, doesn’t mean it’s not fun.
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 →
Monster Hunter World heralds a bright new future for the Monster Hunter franchise.
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 →
Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen – there’s more to a quality fantasy-RPG than dungeons and dragons.
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 →
Hades is the best thing to come out of 2020.
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 →
Pokemon Sword proves my predictions for Generation 8 were dead wrong. Hallelujah!
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 →
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night – Dracula never truly dies, and neither does the metroidvania genre.
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 →
Super Mega Series Review: Monster Hunter on 3DS
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 →