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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...
Mass Effect: Andromeda - First Impressions
19 Aug 2017
19 Aug 2017
Bioware’s controversial Mass Effect sequel released a few months ago. They got a serious - and possibly well-deserved - slating from critics and gamers alike for releasing an “unfinished” game, full of bugs and animation problems. I actually cancelled my pre-order as a result of the media sh*t-storm, which is something...
Free to Play Is Currently Broken - How High Costs Drive Players Away from F2P Games
10 Dec 2014
10 Dec 2014
Just a quick post today - This is exactly the sort of rant I’ve been having over and over again in the last year-or-so, but more eloquently stated in this video by the guys at Extra Credits:
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...
Stop Over-hyping Things!
25 Jun 2014
25 Jun 2014
So, a few weeks ago, Watch_Dogs launched to a universal chorus of ‘Meh!’. I haven’t played the game myself, but the general consensus seems to be that ‘it didn’t live up to the hype’. But, as Yahtzee said in his review, how could it?
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...
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...
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...
MICRO-transactions - The clue is in the title, people!
14 Jun 2013
14 Jun 2013
As I’ve already discussed, I am quite happy with the Free-to-Play game concept - where you can create an account, download and play a game for free, but you can buy extra stuff via in-game purchases. The best free-to-play games give unrestricted access to all features, with the upgrades being mostly...
Do we really want or need a new console generation?
11 Jun 2013
11 Jun 2013
This week marks E3 2013, one of the year’s biggest gaming conferences, which included more information about what we can expect to see from the industry in the next year-or-so. With all of this going on, I thought I would sound off about some of these announcements and ask quite an...
The XBOX ONE Reveal
22 May 2013
22 May 2013
Well, Microsoft has finally unveiled their next games console: the XBOX ONE (which has already earned various nicknames, perhaps the most flattering of which is the X-Bone). The pretentiously named console, which resembles the monolith from the movie 2001, was revealed at a Microsoft press conference yesterday. I thought I’d throw...
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...
Review: Tomb Raider
12 Mar 2013
12 Mar 2013
Just to be clear, I’m talking about the 2013 reboot/origin story ‘Tomb Raider’, not the 1996 game! I realise that doing this is something of a trend at the minute, but quite why they couldn’t have called it ‘Tomb Raider: Origins’ or ‘Tomb Raider: The Dragon’s Triangle’ or something is beyond...
Mass Effect 3: The Ending & Extended Cut
12 Apr 2012
12 Apr 2012
The Mass Effect Trilogy recently came to an end with, you guessed it, Mass Effect 3. It should be pointed out that it is one of my favourite game series of all time and that the final game was suitably epic and brilliant… but then there was the ending. Now, I’m...
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...
Assassins Creed Restrospective
15 Jan 2012
15 Jan 2012
The Assassins Creed (should there be an apostrophe in there somewhere?) series, while doing nothing for the reputation of hoodies, has become one of the most popular series of the current generation and some of my favourite games… in some ways. I haven’t reviewed any of the games yet, so I...
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...
Sonic Retrospective
17 Apr 2011
17 Apr 2011
With the release of yet another attempt to take Sonic the Hedgehog back to his roots, I began to wonder if going back to the beginning is really all the Sonic can hope to achieve?
'Maturity' and Video Games
10 Apr 2011
10 Apr 2011
I’ve mentioned before that I have no particular problem with sex, violence and gore in video games. I wouldn’t say I’m a fan of it, any more that I am a fan of violent films. But juts because I wouldn’t buy the, doesn’t mean I’m not going to try and stop...
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.
Games and The Rating System
27 Feb 2011
27 Feb 2011
One of the things that really annoys me about working in the games industry is the stupid questions people keep asking me, and all the media nonsense that accompanies the release of many games. Whenever a new game that includes any amount of sex or violence, people go out all over...
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 .