I don’t want to fight with anybody about Star Wars. My favourite film in the series is actually Rogue One, so wherever you stand on Star Wars you can all hate me. With that out of the way, I do think J.J. Abrams’ recent comments on the modern Star Wars trilogy – episodes seven to […]
Niantic Is Trolling Us With The Worst Shinies Ever For Pokemon Go Fest 2021
It’s been a while since anyone has made the classic “2020 was awful” joke, so this latest dose of meta millennial humor from Niantic has come beautifully out of left field. Despite the fact the world was on fire at the time, the revered developer of Pokemon Go managed to pull off an excellent Go […]
How Until Dawn Changed From A PlayStation Move Title Into A Horror Classic
“We didn’t have the DualShock 4 at that point,” series producer Dan McDonald tells me about the early days of Until Dawn, a survival horror experience that began life as an ambitious PS3 title. ”We had two Move controllers taped together and we built a prototype before moving a bunch of assets from one engine […]
Don’t Stress About a Job Interview With Bodyswaps’ new Simulator
Job interviews don’t tend to be the most pleasant of experiences as potential employers grill you on what makes you suitable for a particular role. Hence why a lot of people tend to get nervous, flustered and then worry they’re not presenting themselves in the best light. This is where soft skills training specialist Bodyswaps […]
Arc System Works Q&A Interview On Guilty Gear Strive, Rollback Netcode, FGC, Esports, Baiken, And More
Guilty Gear Strive is going to be one of the most exciting fighting games of 2021 – it would almost certainly be number one, if it weren’t for the recent announcement of Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown coming to PS4 in less than a week. But regardless of the competition, Guilty Gear Strive is still […]
Resident Evil Village Has Completely Sold Me On HDR
While 4K resolution and HDR color are hardly new inventions, I wasn’t sold on them in the past generation. Be it because 4K displays were too expensive or HDR wasn’t really expressive enough, it took the recent release of Resident Evil Village to show me how substantial an improvement HDR can make to a game. […]
Mass Effect 3’s Opening Doesn’t Show The Suicide Mission Enough Respect
Mass Effect 2 ends rather abruptly. At least, it did for me. I followed a guide to ensure all of my precious squadmates survived the suicide mission, committing myself to all of the loyalty quests and upgrades required to ensure Commander Shepard wasn’t wiped out by the Collectors. It was a rousing success, yet I […]
A Day In The Life Of Arthur Morgan, The Van Der Linde Gang Roast King
Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the most tragic characters in gaming history. There are very few game protagonists that I actually feel for, and thanks to the brilliant writing from the team at Rockstar, Arthur is among them. His arc from roughneck cowboy to sad protagonist into vengeful spirit will […]
Eve Online historian recounts how players made a chaotic space opera all their own
Eve Online, the famously tedious science fiction game, turned 18 years old earlier this month. For nearly two decades, CCP Games’ epic spacefaring MMO has brought players around the world together in a shared universe called New Eden, a wild and dangerous place filled with conflict and intrigue. While the game itself has a fiction […]
Mass Effect 2’s Creepy Mechs Need To Stay Dead
Gunplay in the first two Mass Effect games is drastically different from one other. In the first, things are stiff and clunky, with no real impact feedback and an overheat system that makes everything feel like a cheap sci-fi blaster as opposed to actual guns. They’ve fixed the sniper rifle, but I’m not even sure […]