The Yawhg – PC Review
By the end of one of my playthroughs of The Yawhg the hospital had fallen, I had become a werewolf, a giant demon baby had crashed the arena, and there was a leech pandemic. My character, clad in red,...
View ArticleThe Last Tinker: City of Colors – PC Review
“A Colorful Game That Exceeds Expectations” Last month I penned a brief preview of The Last Tinker: City of Colors, a platform game slated for a summer 2014 release by Mimimi Productions. I wrote that...
View ArticleAlways Sometimes Monsters – PC Review
I stumbled upon Always Sometimes Monsters several months ago and since then I’ve been intrigued to how they their choice system would work. Choice has been a rather big selling point nowadays, nothing...
View ArticleDivinity: Original Sin – PC Review
“What’s a corpse doing here alone?” “What, did you expect it to have an entourage?!” A band of heroes is trapped in the entrance porch of a prison, the ceiling is slowly descending, in a minute there...
View ArticlePure Pool – PC Review
In 1991 on my brother’s Amiga I played Jimmy White’s Whirlwind Snooker. It set me up for something that would bug me for the rest of my real and virtual life. With every real and virtual game of pool...
View ArticleCounterSpy – PS4 / PS3 / Vita Review
Being aged 28 and British I have little to no knowledge of the Cold War. It’s something I know is referenced a lot in films and something I know is brought up by lazy journalists every time Russia is...
View ArticleGuilty Gear X2 #Reload – PC Review
One on One competition in a computer game is a brutal affair, a mixture of fun, stress and potentially trash talking. There’s no outside interference, and ignoring any inherent skill you may have, the...
View ArticleFrozen Synapse Prime – PSVita Review
The Vita has had a hard time of it recently. Sony seemed to be struggling to find the hand-held console’s selling point, on top of that the big developers and publishers have let the little black...
View ArticleDevil’s Dare – PC Review
The 90’s were an awful decade. Everything was so grim in England, grim in the cinema and grim in the charts. It wasn’t all bad though, as well as the pleasure of home consoles starting on 8 bit and...
View ArticleShadowrun: Dragonfall – iPad Review
Shadowrun was a pen and paper RPG from the 80’s, quite popular at the time it spawned a spin-off in the form of Earthdawn. Shadowrun wasn’t the first Cyberpunk set RPG, but it was one of the most...
View ArticleSatellite Reign – PC Preview
Leather trench coats have meant a lot of things to a lot of people, for years they were associated with some quite questionable secret police exploits, thankfully they broke free of that in the 1970’s...
View ArticleTower of Guns – Xbox One / PS4 Review
Being a gamer encroaching on 30 I feel I’m at that stage in my life where I start questioning the younger generation. I look at trends like the insane popularity of a Fifa card game, and its influence...
View ArticleGoat Simulator – Xbox One Review
For a while now I’ve resented a certain class of games, these games I refer to as “Pewdiepie Bait”. These are games without a story and generally have a comedic element that means Youtubers can cut...
View ArticleProject Root – Xbox One / PS4 / PSVita / PC Review
Bullet Hell Shooters are something of a niche genre. Although first conceived in the 80’s, Japan in the 90’s hit heavy with this concept of ‘you are one person with one gun, your enemy has more, get...
View ArticleSayonara Umihara Kawase + – PS Vita Review
I’ve always collected games, but the intention of it and dedication took an upswing a couple of years ago. I can’t pretend to own many rare or complete in box games, but I have enough to cover at least...
View ArticleSenran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson – 3DS Review
On Netflix in the UK there is an anime called High School of the Dead. It’s a cartoon about a zombie apocalypse hitting Japan and how a bunch of school kids deal with the first week or so of the virus...
View ArticleKeep Talking and Nobody Explodes – PC Review
Often Hollywood films and American TV shows skew how we think about certain job professions, be it the role of teachers in their inspirational nature of students or the quality of a priest in solving...
View ArticleKaiju Panic – PC, Xbox One Review
I’m one of those freaks that actually enjoyed the 1998 Godzilla film. I was 12 at the time and I didn’t know any better. I’m older now, as most people are inclined to do, and I’ve gone back to watch...
View ArticleCorpse Party: Blood Drive – PS Vita Review
I don’t often review horror games, there’s a few reasons; I have issues with most horror games relying on jump scares, but also I’m actually a bit of a wimp. I jump at the drop of a hat, and can easily...
View ArticleDivinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition – Xbox One Review
I’ve been with my partner for four years now, before we met she had played some computer games here and there but she didn’t advance much past the Playstation One. She had nerdy tendencies with film...
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