Games

Tales from the Borderlands

Posted 2:05pm Sunday 20th September 2015 by Brandon Johnstone

Rating: 5/5 A Telltale Games masterpiece has almost become a cliché. Tackling some of pop culture’s largest franchises, from Back to the Future to The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones, Telltale Games crafts surprisingly captivating stories while avoiding covering old ground or Read more...

Rocket League

Posted 2:00pm Sunday 13th September 2015 by Carl Dingwall

Rating: 4/5 You may remember a segment from Top Gear involving cars, a large soccer ball and an attempt to play soccer. Entertaining in its own right, it wasn’t enough for the developers over at Psyonix, who figured it would make a more entertaining game if you added rockets. Welcome to Read more...

This War of Mine

Posted 2:53pm Sunday 6th September 2015 by George Elliott

Rating: 4/5 In the past decade, the video game industry has been disrupted by a revolution of sorts: the medium is being reclaimed from the potent forces of commercialisation. The rise of the independent developer, propelled by advances in digital distribution, the democratisation of software and Read more...

Bloodborne

Posted 1:55pm Sunday 30th August 2015 by Campbell Calverley

Rating: 5/5 Anyone familiar with From Software’s action-adventure Souls games will know how much of a commitment they are. Rushing into them unawares will lead to frustration and despair, while patience, exploration and a level head will be well rewarded. Speaking as someone who clawed his Read more...

Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones

Posted 1:59pm Sunday 16th August 2015 by Anonymous Bird

Rating: 4/5 Stealth Inc 2 is a sequel to Stealth Bastard Deluxe, a stealth-based 2D platformer. You play a clone who is attempting to escape his cloning facility and, in the process, discover the reason the clones exist. Cut scenes show a human working overtime monitoring the clones attempting to Read more...

Gaming World Grieves Loss of Icon

Posted 1:30pm Sunday 9th August 2015 by Brandon Johnstone

In mid-July, gaming (and arguably wider pop culture) lost an icon and a hero. Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, passed away, on to the great Rainbow Road in the sky. Although corporate leaders die all the time, Iwata was an exemplary president, and his life and death warrant conversations about Read more...

Kerbal Space Program

Posted 2:33pm Sunday 2nd August 2015 by Carl Dingwall

Rating: 5/5 In space, no one can hear you scream … Or laugh uncontrollably as your space capsule spins in a similarly uncontrollable fashion towards the planet Kerbin. Welcome to Kerbal Space Program. Half physics sandbox, half management simulator, you play this game as what appears to be Read more...

Little Big Planet 3

Posted 2:30pm Sunday 26th July 2015 by Anonymous Bird

Little Big Planet 3 arrived late last year, and is the third instalment in Sumo Digital’s super fun and silly trilogy. The Little Big Planet franchise is known for being fun, cute and particularly creative. The games are all about promoting creativity. The playable characters are Read more...

Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward

Posted 1:37pm Sunday 19th July 2015 by Cheyanne Intemann

Rating: 4/5 Heavensward is the recent expansion to the Square Enix massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. Final Fantasy XIV had a particularly bad 1.0 launch, with daily experience gain limits, huge empty maps, shockingly poor optimisation and clunky combat. Read more...

Mortal Kombat X

Posted 2:02pm Sunday 12th July 2015 by Carl Dingwall

Mortal Kombat is one of those series that everyone knows about, even if they don’t play games. People probably recognise its memorable theme song and two cheesy movies, the classic announcer shouting “FINISH HIM!” and, of course, its gratuitous violence and gore. So now that we are Read more...