Expectations are a burden. Try as I might to keep myself aside from envisioning what a game might be like before I buy it I can’t seem but help to…
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The last decade+ I’ve been doing these reviews for has allowed me to watch many developers hone their craft over the years. Most of them get better with age, refining…
I’ve long since abandoned looking through Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms for games that I want to fund. Part of it is burnout on the whole concept, with many of…
The game developer redemption arc is growing evermore common these days. From the pinnacle successes like Cyberpunk 2077 to lesser known titles like Remnant 2 managing to punch way above…
I felt so spoiled at the start of the last year, being able to play through God of War and Ragnarok back to back. I was ready to sleep on…
13 years is a long time, long enough that my memories of the original Alan Wake had shifted dramatically to what I had written in my review of it back…
Elden Ring graduated FromSoftware from highly successful and critically acclaimed developer to a household name among gamers and non-gamers alike. So their website indicating that their next game would be…
Procedural generation feels like the games industry’s white whale. It’s always touted as the ultimate replayability mechanic, giving you almost limitless possibilities to explore for as long as you might…
Well that’s a little whoopsie on my part. There I was, thinking that I’d be writing a somewhat rushed review of Diablo IV when one of my friends sends me…
Peer pressure is a wonderful thing. I had basically written off playing Hogwarts Legacy, mostly because whilst I enjoyed the movies and read the first book I’m not what you’d…