One of the joys of the PlayStation era was, at least for me, the Official PlayStation Magazine. At this time I’d hoover up anything I could to do with gaming, which basically comprised of me pestering for a magazine every time we went to the shops, I’d buy a few every month, the main three […]
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Monster Sanctuary
There are few game genre’s that I shy away from. I’m not a huge fan of Rogue-like’s for example, but another is the “Metroidvania” style of game. There’s just something about traversing a 2D map, hitting a wall and trying to remember to come back later that stops me from progressing, probably because my memory […]
Games of 2020
Yes, its that time of year when everyone posts their lists of favourite things from the year, I’ve already done one for music, I won’t be doing one for books, comics or films as I’m never up to date on the goings-on in those worlds despite my love for all three, I’ve refrained from doing […]
Why Cyberpunk 2077 means we should really look at how games are developed
First things first. This is a Cyberpunk 2077 related post, I’ve also not played the game, I’m not going to go into a blow-by-blow of exactly whats happened, many many other writers and content creators have done a far better job than I have of that. This post, however, does build upon a fairly relevant […]
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
The Yakuza franchise is many things to a lot of people, over the top organised crime melodrama, a rhythm action game, business simulator, brawler etc, so its been great to see the series grow from struggling to get released outside of Japan back on the PS3 to being the highlight of many peoples release schedules. […]
Grief and Loss in Yokahama: How Yakuza leads the light on mature games
I’m currently on the fifth chapter of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s Yakuza: Like a Dragon, so I’m not really ready to provide a review just yet. However, I do want to talk about how it’s handling a very specific thing that’s genuinely made me emotional at times because I think it really needs to be […]
BMX The Game (Early Access)
2020 may have been an awful year, but it has seen a surprising number of extreme sports simulators. I’ve already written at length about Session, Skater XL (here and here) and Drift 21, that’s two skateboarding games and a game trying to replicate the feeling of drifting a car realistically, now its BMX’s time in […]
Why inclusivity in gaming is a good thing
I’m going to tread carefully here (as a straight-white 30 something-year-old male), but this is something that I’ve committed to writing about after the artwork for Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 5.4 (titled “Futures Rewritten”). In the artwork, two of the main characters from Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers are depicted, I won’t go into details on […]
Inertial Drift
Never let it be said that there’s an absence of racing games that don’t take themselves seriously, I’ve now covered four very different driving games over the past few weeks and this one is probably the most unique of the lot. You see, whilst it looks like the bastard child of PS2 games Auto Modellista […]
Delayed #Horroctober Alan Wake playthrough – The Final Week
Okay, it took me longer than it should have to get here, but it’s here and it’s done! Episode 6 New York, Two years ago, Alan awakes in his apartment, seemingly hungover, the screen pulses with white light. He takes some painkillers and puts on some sunglasses before pressing the play button on his answer […]