Alex McHugh, Author at Green Man Gaming Blog

Alex McHugh

Alex "Theoban" McHugh is a massive RPG and classic gaming fan, and is currently re-re-re-replaying Far Cry 3 and taking a tilt at finally finishing Final Fantasy IX. He's also crazy about his Chaos Space Marines as he's recently got back into Warhammer 40k, even if he's yet to win a game. Follow Alex on Green Man Gaming <a href="//www.greenmangaming.com/profile/alexmchugh">here</a>.

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JackHammer To Receive Alpha 2.0 Test

April 23rd, 2018 Alex McHugh

Green Man Gaming Publishing have announced that JackHammer, the competitive robot FPS developed by Mission Ctrl Studios, will receive a second Alpha Test period starting on April 30th.

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Old Meets New in Phoenix Point

April 20th, 2018 Alex McHugh

Phoenix Point is the next game from Julian Gollop. Julian Gollop is a name that you might not have heard, especially if you're younger, but his legacy is huge in the PC Gaming world. He is behind great games such as Chaos, Laser Squad, but most importantly: XCOM. Hopefully you've heard of XCOM,...

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Cultist Simulator - A Ragged Letter from a Failed Cultist

April 19th, 2018 Alex McHugh

Recently the EGX Rezzed event took place in the Tobacco Docks venue in London. Members of the Green Man Gaming team attended, and during their time there they took some time to play Cultist Simulator, a game which will be fully released on the 31st of May, 2018. Soon after our social media...

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Will Disco Elysium Finally Move RPGs to the Next Level?

April 16th, 2018 Alex McHugh

Role Playing Games have been having a bit of a renaissance on the PC in the last few years. We've seen games like Pillars of Eternity, Legend of Grimrock, the remastered Avernum series, and Wasteland 2 reinvigorate the traditional style of cRPG. We've seen new takes on the cRPG formula, like...

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EA Vows to 'be better' in Wake of Battlefront II Controversy

April 16th, 2018 Alex McHugh

Patrick Söderlund, the recently appointed Chief Design Officer at EA, has said in a recent interview with The Verge that EA is listening to the community post-Battlefront II, and is promising to 'be better' in future. Patrick Söderlund spoke candidly in his interview with The Verge, in...

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Ready Player One - The Community Speaks

April 13th, 2018 Alex McHugh

The Ready Player One film has come out, based on the nerd-referenced-tastic book by Ernest Cline and it's been met with fairly positive reviews. Hitting 74% on Rottentomatoes, it's definitely 'fresh' by their standards and seems to be reaching its goals in terms of revenue. There's been a big...

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Green Man Gaming included in “Financial Times (FT) 1000: Europe's Fastest Growing Companies”

April 6th, 2018 Alex McHugh

We're pleased to announce that Green Man Gaming has been selected as one of Europe’s fastest growing companies by the Financial Times. Green Man Gaming is listed alongside the continent’s most exciting companies in the FT 1000: ‘Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies’ 2018 ranking, published...

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The Best 10 Indie Games You Haven't Played...Yet

April 5th, 2018 Alex McHugh

There are more and more games appearing on Steam every single day, and that's great. More games means more people making games, more people playing games, and just more games out there. Not all are good certainly, but some will be breathtaking and with more games out there, the amount that are...

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Why Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is Probably the Best Videogame Movie Ever Made

March 28th, 2018 Alex McHugh

It's been twenty years since the original Jumanji stampeded into cinemas, and since then the titular boardgame has been busy. Salvaged after the end of the original film by young Alex Vreeke in 1996 it realised that Alex wasn't going to play it in its current form, so it morphed itself into a...

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Every Far Cry Ranked From Worst to Best (Updated)

March 23rd, 2018 Alex McHugh

Update: Far Cry 5 is available for preload today, so get it downloaded as soon as you can and then let us know where it fits in the series! Far Cry 5 is approaching with deadly momentum, so before we look forwards to the future of the Far Cry series it's time to first look back, back over where...

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Embrace Madness in the March Madness Sale! [Mystery hints included]

March 20th, 2018 Alex McHugh

March Madness at Green Man Gaming continues! This means two things: 1) it's March, and 2) we've got a mad sale going on at Green Man Gaming. The whole month we're selling you amazing games at prices that probably won't make us any money, and that means one thing: CHEAP GAMES. We've got huge...

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Valve Initiates Partial Removal of Hate Groups from Steam

March 19th, 2018 Alex McHugh

Valve have deleted several prominent hate groups which were previously using the Steam platform, Kotaku has reported.