Team Silent, the developer behind the first four Silent Hill games, were a major player in the survival horror genre in the early 2000s. Though their personnel changed substantially during the department’s five years, under […]
Author: Aaron Green
An hour with… Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
When I first played Halo: Combat Evolved on the original Xbox, I distinctly remember feeling as though it was the closest thing to a PC-inspired first person shooter on a home console. I couldn’t believe […]
The role nostalgia plays in appraising old games
We live in an age of gaming that repeatedly capitalises on the ‘retro’. Remakes, reimaginings, franchise reboots, re-releases and independently developed downloadable titles with 8 or 16-bit style pixel-art are rampant right now. If the […]
An hour with… Mega Man
In 1993 I was presented with a choice. As per usual when staying with my grandparents I was taken to a car boot sale before being dropped off home and not long after arriving I […]
Finding stress relief in Dark Souls II
At the beginning of this year (following a pretty hectic evening in hospital) I was diagnosed with stress and anxiety issues. I was warned that if I didn’t get these sorted – and soon – […]
An hour with… Evolve
Pitched as “a four-on-one experience”, unveiled in February 2014 and then released a year later, Evolve is an asymmetrical multiplayer game developed by Turtle Rock Studios (Left 4 Dead). Four Hunters must work together to […]
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Shigeru Miyamoto famously once compared The Legend of Zelda to his own childhood adventures. He spoke of the woodland and caves near where he was raised and the sense of exploration and wonder that came […]
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