Andy Weir’s debut novel The Martian was quite the revelation to me. After hearing the hype and then talks of it becoming a movie I thought I had better check it out. With a story that boils down to Robinson Crusoe mashed up with Apollo 13 and written […]
I am addicted again. For some reason every Dark Souls game has done this to me as did the original Demon’s Souls. Even thought I have just finished my first play through I still find myself going back to areas I’ve missed. All I can think about in Dark […]
After years of anticipation amidst a multitude of changes to the platform it was built on, Remedy’s latest epic has arrived on Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs. Quantum Break is a story driven game that emphasizes the “story” aspects via its intriguing method of blending the game […]
Always with movie reviews the hardest thing to do is to write something worth reading, without providing unnecessary spoilers. I think this actually links in with one of the first things I didn’t like about Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice: the marketing leading up to release. If you’ve watched […]
After Washington D.C. received the Fallout treatment in 2008’s Fallout 3, gamers were now on the receiving end of a one-two combo from the Elder Scrolls developers at Bethesda who showed not only that their style of open ended first person perspective roleplaying games translated well into sci-fi but […]
After years of pleading by fans and the IP jumping between owners, the first new Homeworld game in more than twelve years has arrived… Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak is Real Time Strategy game whose storyline works as a prequel set 106 years prior to the events of the first game. The planet Kharak […]
2015 brought new hardware to the Xbox One platform as part of Microsoft’s continuing measures to reassure players their commitment to gamers was a strong as ever. After the launch of both the Elite console and controller the long awaited chatpad accessory has finally arrived too. Bearing a similarity to […]
With the arrival of a new South Park RPG later this year in the form of the superhero themed The Fractured but Whole, it seemed worthwhile to check out the game that made it possible: 2014’s South Park: The Stick of Truth. In my case I decided to […]
Also known as “the thing which should have come with the Elite Controller“, the Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows finally allows gamers to upgrade and hook up those nice shiny Xbox One controllers to their PCs without a cable. The package itself is pretty basic. There’s the adapter […]
Over my holidays I managed to finally get a chance to play through the main story to Witcher 3’s first expansion, Hearts of Stone. CD Projekt RED really know how to make a worthwhile expansion and this new addition to Geralt’s story is fantastic. Honestly I didn’t think I could […]