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Hard West – PC Review
About 10 years ago I spent a summer obsessed with a Quake 3 mod called Western Quake 3. For 6 weeks I spent most waking hours shooting down cowboys on speeding trains and in one street towns. The bots...
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Volume – Vita/PS4/PC/OS X Review
Robin Hood has always troubled me as a character, his persona in the past 50 years of media has always been a little bit ‘goody two shoes’. Between Disney, general folk lore, films and 90% of the BBC...
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Blood Bowl 2 – Xbox One / PC / PS4 Review
There are some things you can learn and some things you need natural talent. For me I’ve always looked enviously at people who play piano, can do parkour and paint Warhammer figures. These traits can...
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Party Hard – Xbox One / PS4 Review
I dread being invited to parties, as someone who hasn’t had a drink in a few years it’s often a struggle to tolerate the people, the noise and the general tiredness that comes from being expected to...
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Super Hot – Xbox One / PS4 / PC Review
As someone who reviews games I’m often hung by my own words. Something that rattled me the wrong way in one game is actually a blessing in another. Recently I took issue with Party Hard’s attempt at...
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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II – Xbox One Review
It’s hard to be a sequel to a game, it’s harder to be a sequel to a game that is clearly so inspired by others that it becomes a meta game to scream out where certain mechanics came from. The saving...
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Kerbal Space Program – PS4 Review
The Simpsons have a lot to answer for in modern culture generally, but one element has bugged me for the past near 20 years. There’s an episode where Bart ends up in France, he’s staying with some evil...
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Obliteracers – PS4 / PC Review
Nostalgia is probably the biggest double-edged sword of gaming opinion. A screenshot or description of a new game can flood you mind with memories of childhood and a snapshot of time where you just had...
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We Happy Few – PC / Xbox One Preview
A trailer can make or break a game, it can make you drool at the mouth (like Dead Island’s launch trailer a few years ago) or it can make you just give up on any concept of a good game (see Sonic Boom,...
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Layers of Fear: Inheritance – PS4 / Xbox One / PC Review
There’s a concept, or trope, in horror films called “the Spring-loaded Cat”. Picture a film where a character is searching a dark and scary building, they hear a noise, they walk up to a door,...
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Filthy Lucre – PS4 / PC Review
Post-secondary school I knew I didn’t want to do A-Levels, partially down to me being awful at exams but also just wanting to get out of that building. Instead I went to college and then university...
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RIVE – PS4 / PC Review
It’s difficulty to remain consistent when you’ve written as many reviews as I have. An opinion I state in one may be contradicted 6 months later, and there’s a simple reason for that, I’m human. My...
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Fate/EXTELLA: The Umbral Star – PS4 Review
Coming into a game series part way through is always an uphill struggle. It reminds me of being at parties growing up and trying to side step into a circle of people and join their conversation only to...
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Rain World – PS4 / PC Review
In my pointless endeavour to become an adult my fiancé and I got a rescue cat at the tail end of 2016. We named her Miku and she can be an ungodly nightmare 90% of the time trashing my house. But every...
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Outlast 2 – Review PS4
There’s something fascinating about the concept of fear. Emotions on a base level can be mostly hidden from others. But fear is something so instinctual that it’s nigh on impossible to conceal, it’s...
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Perception – PS4 / PC / Xbox One
Everyone deals with the horror genre in different ways, for some they just open themselves up to the world get immersed in the setting. My friend Beth assigns names to everyone, good or bad, and greets...
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Super Hot VR – PSVR / PS4 Review
It was just over a year ago I finally got to get my hands on the full version of Super Hot once it hit consoles. Instantly I was in love, the game changed how I viewed FPS’ on a base level making me...
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Theseus – PSVR Review
Greek legends have always interested me. It’s like comic book lore but has some legitimacy behind it. You talk about the origins of Wolverine and people will judge you but you talk about the origins of...
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Nidhogg 2 – PS4 / PC Review
I’m a sucker for local multiplayer games. There’s something about enjoying a cool moment with someone physically next to you, or goading someone who can see the venom in your eyes or finally swearing...
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Observer – PS4 / Xbox One / PC Review
I’ve always loved the concept of cyberpunk as a theme, between Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Dredd and games like Syndicate and Shadowrunner I’ve become obsessed with neon lights and wires...
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