You might not guess it from the usual content that I put up on this blog but I’m something of a gearhead, owing to my rural roots where I was…
Games
The Souls series never really appealed to me as it seems its target audience was a certain subsection of gamers who craved games that gave their player nothing and took…
I’ll be honest here: my faith in OUYA has long since faded away. Wind back 3 years and you’d get a completely different story; the idea of a console freed…
For some games mods are the lifeblood that keep them going for many years after their initial release. These mods add in things that the developers either didn’t think to…
A game’s controls being deliberately obtuse or unintuitive used to be a sign of a poorly designed game. Indeed the whole reason I avoid certain genres, survival horror being one…
The Battlefield series has, for the most part, stuck to its roots of giant war-based combat which has served it well over the past 13 years that it has existed….
Puzzle-platformers are the corridor shooter of the indie scene; they are the genre that nearly everyone attempts in their quest to become the next big thing. This means that, for…
Ever since we (sort of) won the battle for a R18+ rating for games us adult gamers have been hoping that the games, which are clearly not for children, would make…
Ever since games realised that they were no longer beholden to the Euclidean world we exist in the number of games based around messing with that idea has increased exponentially….
There are some genres in which few dare to tread for fear of being crushed by the long reigning champion. For city building games there was really no comparison to…