It’s common in video games for us to romanticize the dungeon crawl, loot filled games, with the only consequence of meeting our peril limited to respawning or reloading. In the last five years we have seen a lot of rogue-likes, many of which have repopularized...
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The Rise and Fall of Paid For Mods
A number of communities on the internet seemed to explode with anger and rage over the weekend as Bethesda and Valve rolled out their previously unannounced paid for workshop mod system - a system that would allow modders to upload their content to be monetized. The...
Westerado: Double Barreled – Review
The west is unforgiving… Developer Adult Swim Games' Westerado: Double Barreled thrusts this in your face within the first five minutes of gameplay, and players of the game will quickly find themselves having to come out top when outgunned and outnumbered in a dry and...
Bloodborne: Review
For many years foreigners have come to Yharnam in search of its blood ministrations (that's the use of blood to heal a person's ailments and make them stronger, didn't you know that?) and you are one of those travelling to this city. A contract is signed and you are...
Bloodborne: First Impressions
Bloodborne is From Software’s exclusive for the PS4, it is a large game with a great deal of content to cover. For this reason, I have decided to write a first impression which will later be followed up by a review that covers the games in it’s completion. Yharnam is...
Nintendo is going Mobile
As the biggest player in the handheld market, Nintendo has been in a duel of fate with the mobile market for almost as long as I can remember there being smart phones. In the days of Candy Crush and Angry Birds we’ve seen an increase of 55% in casual and social gaming...
Cities: Skylines – REVIEW
*Review code provided by publisher Paradox Interactive. The city simulation genre is one with a lot of history. I’ve played classics of the genre like Simcity 3000 and Settlers since I first started playing PC games. Cities: Skylines is Colossal Order’s new take on...
Unreal Engine 4 Is Free To Use
Chances are if you play video games you've played a game made in the Unreal Engine. Released in 1998 by Epic Games, the Unreal Engine has been used in a massive list of games including titles such as Borderlands, Batman: Arkham City and Mortal Kombat 9. Yesterday,...
Sproggiwood: Review
[Disclaimer: Review code provided by Freehold Games] Sproggiwood’s core gameplay provides a non intimidating introduction to the world of rogue-likes with its cartoon hand painted style and simplified mechanics, allowing the player to grasp its concepts with relative...
Pre-Orders: It’s A Trap!
With the controversy of launch day embargoes only just behind us some publishers have moved to locking more significant content behind pre-orders, forcing consumers to choose between a well informed games purchase and getting the full package. 2014 was not the best...