Folks, I’m extremely worried about Dragon Age 4. The launch date is pretty much the last thing on my mind, and I’m not particularly fretting about any plot strands either. The game is finely poised after Inquisition’s ending, Minrathous seems like a fascinating setting, and more Tevinter likely means more Dorian. I’m not worried about […]

So you’ve heard about FromSoftware’s video games. Many players describe them as excruciatingly difficult. Others, like yours truly, describe them as more of an exercise in patience than anything else. Maybe you’re somebody who hasn’t bothered to try out any of these games, or perhaps you bounced off of them — and now you want […]

Cyberpunk 2077’s new patch initially didn’t impress me that much. After dedicating an hour-long deep dive into what could have been a three-minute trailer, it felt like CDPR was overhyping a pretty regular patch where the biggest improvement was the new-gen availability. Considering, in a shocking display of anti-consumer hostility we had long been told […]

Nier Automata is one of my favourite games ever, but I’d be a fool to say it was flawless. Yoko Taro’s masterpiece is visually inconsistent, requires a lot of patience to reach its finest moments and leans into gratuitous fanservice a little too much for its own good. I’m a hardcore supporter of 2B’s thighs […]

Another big day of news to get through today, the biggest being Sony giving us as first look at the PSVR 2. We've also got the news that Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy sales have not met Square Enix's expectations, and that Bethesda is closing its launcher and putting all of its games back on […]

It was Final Fantasy 7 that gave me my first taste of grinding in RPGs. Towards the end of the first disc, in the Temple of the Ancients, I encountered a notorious boss called Demon's Gate. If you've played it, you'll remember this jerk: a giant, clawed demon vaguely reminiscent of an H.R. Giger painting, […]

Adventure games are typically, well, adventures. Whether it's the hapless Guybrush Threepwood's quest to become a legendary pirate, or struggling salesman Manny Calavera on his journey through the underworld, the best point-and-click games are about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. The Lion's Song is about that too, but in a much more grounded, realistic way. […]

Nintendo completed the biggest roster in Super Smash Bros. history last year when it revealed Sora to be the last member of Ultimate's Fighters Pass. It was a terrific reveal and it was all very exciting. However, after the thrill of Sora being added to the game subsided, we were all left feeling empty inside. […]

I've been playing video games for almost three decades. I can't pinpoint the first time I picked up a controller and knew what I was doing or looked up at a TV screen and became captivated by a game, but I know by the age of four, I was mildly obsessed with my Mega Drive. […]

For a game that’s just about walking, Dear Esther is a quietly monumental, as well as a strangely controversial piece of media. Ten years ago it inspired a flurry of conversations (read: discourse) about whether it’s a “real” game or not. Some critics have said that it is, empirically, a terrible one, since it’s devoid […]