After my positive experience last year with narrative driven games I find myself again playing another one in Night Call, from Monkey Moon and Blackmuffin Studio, which feels more old school in its storytelling approach but wraps it up with some good writing and an appealing presentation. The […]
With Diablo III out of my system and the prospects of playing Diablo II for the first time soon through the upcoming enhanced port I decided to take advantage of a recent deal on GOG.com to get the original game and see if nostalgia for it might keep […]
A new game related to the Aliens franchise was just announced in the form of Aliens: Fireteam and I’m in two minds about it at the moment. The upcoming game for PC, Xbox and PlayStation is a third person co-op shooter that pits a team of players up […]
With the Series X/S update for Control Ultimate Edition finally out I finally dusted off my copy of the game which had been sitting in my backlog for a few weeks now and gave it run through. In that short time it didn’t take long for me to […]
An island utopia in lockdown, a mission gone wrong, a betrayal and a Ghost on the run… and that’s just what you start off with in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint. Though I was late to the party with the game’s predecessor Ghost Recon Wildlands I enjoyed it […]
I have invested in both the Oculus Quest 2 and the Oculus Rift S. Why you ask? For one I wanted to compare a native PC VR experience with a hybrid model. The other also allows me to keep playing VR should I find myself waiting for the […]
It was surprising just how many years players had to wait for Borderlands 3 to arrive. Considering the popularity of past games and how well developer Gearbox has supported them but it finally arrived in 2019 followed a year later by an Series X/S enhanced update. With that […]
A week or so ago I put up a post to help with some hints around getting better frame rate with Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) in VR on the Quest 2. With this post I’ll be focusing on image quality this time, and taking advantage of ASW (Asynchronous […]
UPDATE: With Microsoft Flight Simulator there are definitely two schools of thought with how it should be run: Image Quality vs Frame Rate. In my quest for delving into all the different tweaks available I’ve clarified this post as frame rate improvement. A subsequent post on Image Quality […]
Comprised of a number of ex-Rare members, Playtonic Games first game Yooka-Laylee back in 2017 leveraged much of what made Rare’s own classic 3D platformer Banjo-Kazooie so popular and it became a Kickstarter success. They would return again to their creation two years later but with a twist […]
The story of one person’s attempts to make their Rampage Arcade1Up cabinet do more.
A look back at some of the games we've played on Xbox One over the years.
Our own tips and experiences while trying to make a living out in the black.
