Breakout success tend have an unfortunate effect on the games industry for decades afterwards. Dark Souls, for instance, set us on the path we’re now on today where most action…
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There was a time when big releases were almost a social event unto themselves, a kind of cultural nexus point that drew in all and sundry whose only connection was…
Everyone has that game which defined, for them, the core of many games that came after it. DOOM for FPS, Warcraft for RTS and for this old reviewer anything that…
Man was I ever dreading a return to the DOOM series. My last memories of the series were riddled with feelings of exhaustion, being unable to enjoy the game because…
The say comparison is the thief of joy and boy, is it ever. Coming off such a high that was Clair Obscur I knew that whatever I played next was…
After many years of reviewing games I’d inadvertently set myself a long list of boundaries that, for whatever reason, I wouldn’t cross. It started with simple things, like I had…
First impressions can be a hard thing to shake. Certainly I fell trap to the idea that Atomfall was simply going to be a British version of Fallout, something that…
It’ll be different this time, you tell yourself. You’ve been down this road before, you know the mistakes to avoid so when you do the thing it won’t end up…
Indulge me for a moment will you. I have…a lot of thoughts and feelings about how I found myself playing Road 96 and what it means more generally to me….
Expectations are a dangerous thing. This is the thought that has rattled around in my head whenever I start thinking about Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Even before it came out…