The original Wing Commander was literally a bolt out of the blue. Chris Roberts and the team at Origin Systems would set the benchmark for what was to be expected from space combat sims with its advanced graphics and cinematic storytelling. To put it into perspective it launched […]
After a successful Kickstarter campaign and Game Preview in 2016, Rockfish Games’ roguelike space shooter Everspace launched earlier this year and I’m happy to say that it delivers on what I saw back when I first previewed it. There’s a good chance I will go over familiar ground […]
Space flight sims have been making a comeback in recent years and with that developers are coming up with different spins on the genre to stand out from the crowd. Everspace from Rockfish Games takes an arcade style space shooter and adds elements of Roguelikes to give players […]
This is probably one of the harder reviews I’ve had to write. The game for me is equal parts brilliance, with almost equal parts frustration. The procedural generated universe is a masterstroke, but at the same time having this has allowed many teething issues to creep in, especially […]
With Night Owl focusing on Elite I thought it might be pertinent to throw up a Star Citizen gameplay video. This video shows multiple players in the one ship doing a mission together and it looks outstanding. In light of the fact I am playing No Man’s Sky […]
Update #1 – The announced changes have been working really well and no longer am I am getting smashed. It seems the AI has been balanced well now – harder than before, but not impossible at the launch of 1.6 / 2.1 patches. With the recent 1.6 patch for vanilla […]
The ever expanding monolith that is Star Citizen is undergoing a major change after February 14 with the Persistent Universe (MMO) component breaking off from the Squadron 42 solo campaign with both now being sold separately. Anyone whose already purchased the game will continue to have access to […]
Atari has been associated with many popular video games over the decades however there is one that is spoken little of today whose influence in multiple genres shouldn’t be forgotten as it may be one of the most important games they ever produced. Star Raiders is a real-time 3D space combat simulator developed […]
Being a long time Elite fan I picked up the Game Preview a couple of weeks ago (can’t believe I didn’t pick it up earlier). Since then I have become an Elite Dangerous junkie. I absolutely love this open ended space exploration gameplay and it faithfully recreates all […]