REVIEW: Hades
I attempted to escape the seemingly black hole-like pull of the house I grew up in many times over the course of the latter half of my life. In fact, these attempts stretch back into the first half, considering my sporadic turns as a half-hearted…
REVIEW: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2
I’m not a skater. I’ve never skated. I’m not even sure I’ve ever seen a skateboard. The closest I’ve ever come to skater culture was a brief detour through a local skate park (read: concrete half-pipe covered in bird shit) around 2006, where a friend…
REVIEW: Tank Mechanic Simulator
I’ll give anything a go—video game wise, I mean. You won’t catch me hang-gliding (f*** heights) or deep-sea diving (f*** sharks), but there isn’t a genre of video game I won’t take a stab at. As I learned with cinema a long ago, writing off…
REVIEW: Case: Animatronics
After the release of the 2014 horror hit Five Nights At Freddy’s, game developers have been trying to replicate the same feeling (and success) of the creepy point-and-click games since then, to varying results. However, there is one that deserves more attention, and it only…
REVIEW: Mask of Mists
If I were to rank my favourite game genres, action-adventures would definitely feature in the top five. Immersive worlds populated with strange creatures and magic are the sort of games that offer a real sense of escapism. However, they can also demand a lot of…
REVIEW: From Bedrooms to Billions – The PlayStation Revolution
At my core, I have always been a PlayStation gamer, purely because of how I was brought up. The first game console I ever interacted with was the original PlayStation; I must have only been three or four, and nothing brings me back to those…
REVIEW: Fall Guys – Ultimate Knockout
I am terrible at Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout…
REVIEW: RELICTA
Spoiler alert: everything goes tits up. At least, that’s what I would say if that wasn’t how the game started out (ah, good ol’ in medias res). In Relicta, you play as Angelica Patel, a scientist working for the AEGIR corporation, as she wakes from…
REVIEW: Ghost of Tsushima
Seven years on from its debut, the PlayStation 4 is soon to be replaced by the next generation. During this beloved era, we’ve been handed a treasure trove of PlayStation exclusives to sink our teeth into that ranges from The Last of Us Remastered all…
REVIEW: SKATER XL
In the evolution of the eight generation console wave, the absence of the skateboarding genre has been felt by a dedicated fanbase that still yearn for the experiences that EA and Activision provided with their Skate and Tony Hawk franchises, respectively. The seemingly last nail…
REVIEW: Ultimate Fishing Simulator
Before I start my review, I need to make a confession. I have never been fishing, nor have I ever felt the need to. Whilst I don’t begrudge fans of fishing I never really ‘got’ it. For me, it always seemed like a lot of…
REVIEW: The Last of Us Part II
When The Last of Us arrived in the summer of 2013 on the PlayStation 3, it was immediately met with critical and commercial acclaim. Naughty Dog, the developer mostly known at the time for the Uncharted series, seemed to have struck a chord with audiences…
REVIEW: Dark Nights With Poe & Munro
Back in the early 1990s, video games were the “big bad” in the US. They were soulless, mindless, gore-laden brainwashing machines designed to turn YOUR children into Charles Manson on bath salts. Mortal Kombat (1992) was the worst of the bunch, and those new-fangled 16-bit…
