Stealthy steampunk stings on Switch I’ve got $6000 on me and I could leave now via the airship that is parked just outside. Yet behind […]
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Downward Spiral: Horus Station
Karl Moon flings himself out of the airlock and into breathless zero G first person VR to take in the atmosphere of Downward Spiral: Horus […]
Guacamelee! 2
Does the sequel to 2013’s Guacamelee! improve upon the original recipe, or is this avocado action underripe? Brian Edwards taste-tests… At the end of Guacamelee! […]
The Spectrum Retreat
An assignment far more sinister than a retro gaming conference, Leah Haydu braves the lobby of The Spectrum Retreat. Hotels are kind of creepy. That’s […]
A rapturous refrain
James Carter harks at the importance of the use of sound in the BioShock games. Listening to the gentle click-clack of my keyboard as I […]
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Ahead of our podcast later this year, Paul Brown reviews Ninja Theory’s Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice “There is a space I want us to fill. Common […]
Grand Theft Auto IV: Perhaps this time things will be different
David Rushe finds returning to Rockstar’s decade-old Grand Theft Auto IV surprisingly refreshing. It was ten years ago that I did two things for the […]
The loneliest number
James Carter excogitates upon the idiosyncrasies of playing co-op with AI in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands. Is it a sacrifice to run into a […]
Lost solutions: The psychology behind forgetting puzzles
You know the frustration of returning to a game you’ve beaten before but finding you’ve forgotten how to solve it? Joshua Robinson looks into why […]
Raging Justice
Fan of vintage brawlers Michiel Kroder reviews MakinGames‘ nostalgic, rambunctious debut. “Whatever happened to the scrolling beat ‘em ups, the Double Dragons, the Final Fights […]
An anxious gamer
Brian Edwards considers how our personal propensities can shape the game designs that we relish, and those which send us screaming in the other direction. […]
Fan, I am – becoming the Ultimate Fan in Rare Replay
Our former Rare employee Darren Gargette has recently proven himself to be one of their biggest fans too. On the 28th March 2018, at about […]