We all know somebody who eats food quicker than you can pick up your fork. Yet they will still say they have enjoyed their meal. You on the other hand might insist on eating slowly and worshipping every last bite. Saying that you enjoy your meal better when you eat slower. The same can be…
It’s 2018, and the art of gaming has certainly changed over the past few years. For the majority of us, we grew up on 2D low-resolution games, where the thought of 1080p or 4K were unimaginable. With major advancements in game engine design over the last decade, we have witnessed the game studios transition from…
“In video games, a loot box is an in-game purchase consisting of a virtual container that awards players with items and modifications based on chance. Loot boxes are considered to be a type of microtransaction.” In more simple terms, a loot box is a game of chance, where the player pays for a chance to…
Why are movies based on video games so bad? You could say because the depth of video game media leads to deeper characters that cannot be replicated in a film. Alternatively, you could read this list as a preview and come back in a few weeks when I’ve written an article about why… Assassin’s Creed…
To many, Football Manager is a bland, strategy-football game, but to a sizeable community, it is so much more. The game began in 1992 under the name Championship Manager, developed by brothers Paul and Oliver Collyer from their bedroom. It wasn’t until 2003 that the brothers, due to a publishing split, re-branded the game to…
In the modern age of online gaming, the convenience of downloadable games is as quintessential as the gaming system itself. Steam sales seem to always be available and gaming has never been so affordable if you can stomach the upfront investment for a gaming PC. Years ago, if a game was released with bugs, then…
RPGs have exploded in the last few years. What was once the peak of obscure nerd-dom has started to come into common knowledge, what with the likes of Critical Role and The Adventure Zone, and approximately one in five people you know having tried D&D. Tabletop RPGs, for those of you unaware, are half games…
Gaming was alight with rage and burning pitchforks coming towards the release of EA’s Star Wars Battlefront 2 in November which caused the infamous “sense of pride and accomplishment” Reddit comment in response to the backlash that their loot box system and unlocking of in-game rewards had caused. And while at the time EA and…
The word ‘iconic’ gets thrown around a lot in gaming – especially if you’re Ubisoft – but some things in gaming truly are iconic; Mario’s cap, the Triforce in Zelda and probably some things that non-Nintendo companies have done. And consoles are no different. Who doesn’t get tingly when you pick up a SNES controller,…
For years now Nintendo have, in one way or another, been doing their own thing, separating themselves from the other two members of the “big three”, Sony and Microsoft. While the PS3 and Xbox 360 were low-end PCs that introduced online gaming to the mainstream and introduced HD graphics to consoles, the Wii sold eschewed…