When people use the word unique, most of the time they just mean that something is unusual or not the norm. This time, though, I’m using the word unique in its proper context. I really do believe that in a lot of ways, NieR: Automata is one of a kind. From the very first moments…
Now that we’ve finally got the murder-happy 2016 behind us, that can only mean one thing: the annual speedrunning marathon Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) has also just finished! For those of you not in the know, AGDQ is an event where many of the world’s top speedrunners get together to beat games as fast…
For those of you who don’t know me (which is literally all of you), I really like the original Spyro the Dragon trilogy on the original PlayStation. Year of the Dragon remains, to this day, my favourite game of all time. I can almost breeze through that game blindfolded at this point, finding every egg…
To say that Nintendo hasn’t been doing great in the home console market the last couple of years would be a bit of an understatement. The announcement, reveal and launch of the Wii U were disasters that the console never fully recovered from; I don’t think the general public ever really understood that it was…
Darkest Dungeon is a game where failures compound incredibly quickly. A single moment of bad luck can multiply into a tragedy that can end a whole dungeon run and wipe out your whole group of adventurers. Much like building a house of cards, playing Darkest Dungeon has you constantly on edge, terrified of slipping up…
I don’t think it would come as a surprise to any of you if I described professional wrestling as a niche subject. Finding an audience for a podcast about old WWF pay-per-views, therefore, would seem nigh impossible, but that’s exactly what three lads from Dublin did when they started OSW (Old School Wrestling) Review. The…
When Oculus first started showing off their Rift headset a few years ago, all we heard was how virtual reality was going to be the next gamechanger for video games. This wasn’t going to be the false prophet that 3D televisions were, this was the real deal. Then HTC and Valve threw their hat (or…
Now that the newest FIFA game is out in the wild, I once again got to thinking about the nature of annualised games. In particular, sports games, since they seem to be the most common perpetrators of this. Games like FIFA, PGA Tour, NFL and NBA come out every year without fail, but what do…
A skeleton warrior scores a critical hit on Dismas, my Highwayman. Dismas can’t take the stress of such a blow and cracks under the pressure. He is now Fearful and moves to the back of the line of his own accord to avoid taking further damage. This stresses out the rest of my group. The…
The recent release of Comcept and Armature Studios’ new action-adventure game ReCore got me thinking about mid-tier games; in the current gaming landscape they are very rare things indeed. A few years ago they would have been the domain of companies like THQ, but no longer. Games seem to come in only three types now:…