Life is Strange: Before the Storm is odd in the sense that it isn’t necessarily what fans would have wanted out of a second season. Life is Strange’s ending, spurred on by a heart-wrenching final decision, left a few questions unanswered that seemed like the too-perfect sort of loose threads that would be pulled on…
Night in the Woods starts on a sour note. Then it piles on more of that bitter flavor day after in-game day of modern malaise and hopelessness. Such is life in the small, supposedly quiet town of Possum Springs. Such is life in thousands of forgotten towns across America. We sense all this through Mae…
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…
Mass Effect: Andromeda released last week and while I haven’t yet had the chance to play it for myself, it seems to be an intensely polarising experience, with some critics and fans outright hating it due to the lacklustre animations or boring side quests, while others love it purely because it scratches that particular Sci-Fi…
Content creators on YouTube are a dime a dozen these days, with the internet being completely oversaturated with aspiring Let’s Players, and it is very rare to find someone who can break through the mould. I recently got the chance to speak to (and when I say speak to, I mean exchange emails with) one…
As a child, I was obsessed with dinosaurs. The Jurassic Park movies instilled a sense of wonder in me that no other experience has replicated… until now. Horizon Zero Dawn takes place in a dystopian future where John Hammond, the fictional mastermind behind Jurassic Park, thought to himself “You know what would be cooler than…
Mass Effect: Andromeda is almost here, and BioWare have released another in their series of gameplay videos, this time focusing on the mechanic at the heart of the new instalment in the franchise: exploration. A returning feature from the original trilogy is the Galaxy Map, which allows the Pathfinder to plot their course and scan…
The Nintendo Switch launches worldwide this Friday, March 3rd, and these are some of the marquee releases we can expect in the console’s debut year. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – The biggest installment in the Legend of Zelda franchise to date is a launch title for Nintendo’s new console, and will…
For Honor, the action fighting game from Ubisoft that is officially released today, recently held a closed beta which ran from the 26th to the 30th of January. I managed to get an invite and spent around 15-20 hours with the game, and these are some of the details I have learned about the full…
The New Year has just begun, and it brings with it the usual hype train of players looking forward to their most anticipated releases of the year. These are the 5 games that I’m most looking forward to in 2017. Horizon Zero Dawn. Some of my excitement for this game stems from the fact that…