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Stormgate (Early Access) - First Impressions
20 Aug 2024
20 Aug 2024
So, it seems a group of developers at Blizzard got sick of beating the 20-year-old dead horse of World of Warcraft and went off to form a new studio. Their goal; to make strategy games - you know, the thing that Blizzard used to be known for! They’re gonna build their...
Review - XCOM: Chimera Squad (Part 2)
23 Sep 2020
23 Sep 2020
In part 1 of my review of XCOM: Chimera Squad, I talked about my experience of playing the game to completion for the first time and looked at the general strokes of how the game was different to its predecessors. In this version, I want to focus more on the...
Review - XCOM: Chimera Squad (Part 1)
23 Sep 2020
23 Sep 2020
I haven’t done a game review in a while, mainly because I don’t play games close to their release dates any more. They’re just too expensive and I’ve had too many disappointments in the past. However, I not only bought XCOM: Chimera Squad soon after it was released, but I also...
XCOM 2: Mod Report 1
17 Feb 2016
17 Feb 2016
XCOM 2 has support for a range of community mods via the Steam Workshop. I plan to try out a few of these mods over the coming months and produce these “Mod Reports”, where I will discuss the good, the bad and the downright insane!
XCOM 2: First Impressions
10 Feb 2016
10 Feb 2016
I can’t remember being as excited for a video game as I’ve been about XCOM 2, the sequel to Firaxis’ XCOM: Enemy Unknown (one of my favourite games of all time). I’ve been soaking up all the preview videos and developer livestreams and now I’ve finally got my hands on the...
XCOM: The Long War - Review
08 Feb 2016
08 Feb 2016
I am a huge fan of XCOM: Enemy Unknown and with XCOM 2 due to launch on February 5th, I wanted to play this modern classic again, but there’s a problem; after multiple playthroughs, the replay value of the game has greatly diminished.
The Cost of Gaming
29 Oct 2015
29 Oct 2015
So, apparently Assassin’s Creed Syndicate “isn’t that bad” - which is a great improvement over recent entries in the franchise at least, but that’s a rant for another time - and I have to admit that the idea of climbing around the rooftops of Victorian London has a certain appeal.
Heart of the Swarm: The Leaked Ending
19 Nov 2014
19 Nov 2014
I have an issue with the ending of Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm. It’s apparently not as controversial as the ending to Mass Effect, but the thing that bothers me is the same: it just doesn’t quite make sense! Part of the problem is that I’ve seen an alternative...
In Defence of Next-Gen Graphics
21 Jan 2014
21 Jan 2014
Quite a lot of people are attacking the next-gen gaming consoles because ‘the only tangible improvements that they will make to games is to the graphics’. I have said before that the launch of these new consoles is badly timed and I do not own either because I don’t feel it...
XCOM: Enemy Unknown & Enemy Within
28 Nov 2013
28 Nov 2013
Last year saw the release of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, a sequel to a popular gaming franchise from the creators of Civilisation. I didn’t expect to become a fan of this game, but (as with Civilisation) I ended up getting sucked in. This month sees the release of the game’s expansion: Enemy...
Fix your Audio Settings!
22 Oct 2013
22 Oct 2013
This is a rant about something that has been getting on my nerves a lot recently; the fact that that developers (and not just indies, but big ‘triple-A’ studios too) seem to be happy to release a game without seemingly any effort going into the game’s sound design and/or without proper...
Valve vs. The Next Generation
28 Sep 2013
28 Sep 2013
This week saw Valve (the developers behind games like the Half-life series and the Steam network) announce their new set of technologies that aim to bring the Steam gaming experience into the living room. Whether their intention was to simply expand their empire or to throw the gauntlet into the “Next...
Review: Guild Wars 2
22 Aug 2013
22 Aug 2013
Blizzard’s MMO giant World of Warcraft is now 8 years old and it is finally starting to lose its players, yet it is still the most successful online game out there. A few contenders have come along, but whether they were not as well-made or well-written or just lacked whatever it...
Worms Retrospective
19 Jul 2013
19 Jul 2013
I used to really enjoy playing the Worms games when I was younger, but I feel that the franchise has become somewhat stale in recent years. Last year they brought out a new instalment: Worms Revolution, that finally tried out some new ideas, but it didn’t quite manage to renew my...
Mass Effect Retrospective
18 Jun 2013
18 Jun 2013
The games of Mass Effect Trilogy have become some of my favourite games of all time, but (apart from my discussion about the Mass Effect 3 Ending) I haven’t actually reviewed any of them so far. So this week I thought I would take a quick look these games and...
Open-World Games
20 Mar 2013
20 Mar 2013
Lots of video games these days feature some sort of open world, or at least places that you can explore for hidden rewards and the occasional side story. Only a few games, however, seem to integrate these mechanisms properly into the wider game. So, I thought that for my latest rant...
Review - Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm
15 Mar 2013
15 Mar 2013
It’s been nearly three years since Starcraft 2 - Wings of Liberty was finally released. It was the sequel to a game that is one of the best-selling and most critically-acclaimed strategy games of all time and a personal favourite of mine. It was also a sequel that, itself, was released...
Free-to-Play Games
12 Apr 2012
12 Apr 2012
I have spent a lot of the last few weeks trying out some of the ‘free-to-play’ games that are now available on Steam. I’d like to share some of my ideas and opinions about these….
Boss Fights
05 Feb 2012
05 Feb 2012
Boss fights are a common element of most games, but are something that I frequently find frustrating. I’d like to take a moment to look at some great (and truly terrible) boss fights to look at how they should be done.
Sonic 4 vs Sonic Generations
31 Jan 2012
31 Jan 2012
I’ve already talked about Sonic recently in my Retrospective, but that was before I had properly played either Sonic 4 - Episode 1 or Sonic Generations. Both of these games seem to be trying to shed some of the stuff that has made the recent games so bad and trying...
Review: Portal 2
24 Apr 2011
24 Apr 2011
The original Portal was basically a tech demo, included as a bonus alongside other titles in the Orange Box. And that was all it needed to be. However, it turned out to be full of dark humour and featured a computer that is one of the greatest villains/characters in any video...
Console vs. PC Gaming
13 Mar 2011
13 Mar 2011
Today, I would like to discuss one of my fundamental rules of gaming, primarily my view of the different gaming platforms and why certain types of games should only appear on the ‘right’ platform.
Review: World of Warcraft (Part 2)
20 Feb 2011
20 Feb 2011
What follows is part 2 of my review of Blizzard’s online phenomenon World of Warcraft [continued from here ]. This week I look at some of the things that I wasn’t so keen on, and the stuff that ultimately drove me to leave the game.
Review: World of Warcraft (Part 1)
13 Feb 2011
13 Feb 2011
Yes, ashamed as I am to admit it, I am guilty of effectively pissing away three years of my life playing Blizzard’s hugely successful online role-playing game World of Warcraft .