Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea DLC review – Constants and variables

The following article contains some spoilers for the end of Bioshock Infinite. Bioshock Infinite was unquestionably one of my favourite games of 2013 and remains every bit as excellent. It ought to be a mark of its excellence that I actually played the game through twice despite its linear path and story, simply because I […]

Local Multiplayer editorial – Everyone should get Towerfall

Do you remember local multiplayer? Back when the Nazis were rampaging across Europe and the days when if you had suggested an “always online” experience you would have been laughed back to whatever pit you crawled out of. Man, those were the days…

Neptune’s Pride 2 Journal (Part 2 of 4) – Optimistic Tidings

Early in 2013 me and my friends played a closed game of Neptune’s Pride 2: Triton, before even the glorious saga that was the war of the Space Bears. During the surprisingly brief, two-week-long game, I once again kept a journal of the exploits of my Empire in a rise and fall of epic proportions. […]

Neptune’s Pride 2 Journal (Part 1 of 4) – Once more unto the breach

Telltale Games Episodes editorial – The boy has no patience

Over the last year I finished both of Telltale’s most recent episodic, interactive stories (not counting the ones which are not finished yet). I immensely enjoyed my time in both of them and have reviewed both as well to explain why I did. The Wolf Among Us features the adventures of Bigby Wolf in the world of Fables, attempting […]

The Walking Dead Season 2 review – I see too many dead people

The first season of The Walking Dead by Telltale Games (and yes I am well aware of how easy it is to mix that up with the TV series given that their use of the word “season”) is easily one of my favourite games from the past few years, is possibly within my top 10 of […]

Among the Sleep review – Baby, baby, baby, AAAARGHH!

Among the Sleep, by Krillbite studios, is a game which had an exceptional amount of potential for sheer, unbridled terror. By taking the player out of the usual comfort zone of playing as a grown man/woman and putting them into the body of a 2-year old toddler it allowed for the possibility of using all […]

Lords of the Black Sun review – Civilisation in SPAAAAAACE!

Frankly it’s about time that someone made a strategy game in space, one where you can control vast fleets of starships and conquer a vast array of systems and planets. A game where you can fight an array of alien species whilst researching the next scientific innovation which will allow you to improve your terraforming […]

Xenonauts review – Certainty of death, small chance of success, what are we waiting for?

Xenonauts by Goldhawk Interactive is billed as the “spiritual successor” for UFO: Enemy Unknown, also known as X-COM: UFO Defense from the early 90’s (thanks Wikipedia!). I.e. back in the day when I was more concerned with learning how to walk and breath simultaneously instead of complex and novel turn-based strategy. X-COM is a turn-based strategy game […]

Five Nights at Freddy’s and Mini Metro – Some Ideas for Your Little Minutes

So you’re busy, you’ve got about an hour before you have to deal with some stuff in the real world. That world into which we rarely venture. I understand that some people, for bizarre reasons, don’t have the time to sit down and play six straight hours of Skyrim or Mass Effect 3 and so […]