Jason Coles, Author at Green Man Gaming Blog

Jason Coles

Jason likes to focus on roguelikes and co-op games; in a dream world he'd make a living writing about Dark Souls. As well as being a writer he also does personal training and accounting and can occasionally be seen on other people's streams. Being a big fan of fluffy things means he has two cats, both of whom refuse to let him sleep, but at least they are cute.

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Blair Witch: Everything you need to know

August 22nd, 2019 Jason Coles

Blair Witch is the upcoming game from Bloober Team, who are probably best known for their work on the Layers of Fear games. It’s based on the classic franchise and specifically set two years after The Blair Witch Project. Not only that, but the team have been given permission to go as wild as...

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Blair Witch and Cameras in horror games

August 13th, 2019 Jason Coles

Blair Witch is on the horizon, and while the game itself was a surprise to many, it does look like it makes a lot of sense. Well, the game itself makes a lot of sense, the story is probably completely out there thanks to the source material. One of the things that are present in the trailers...

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Age of Wonders: Planetfall Meet the Factions

August 8th, 2019 Jason Coles

Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the latest in a string of intriguing-looking 4X strategy games. Traditionally, Age of Wonders has always been deeply rooted in high fantasy, elves, magic, dragons, that kind of thing. This time though, things are very different thanks to a more sci-fi focused setting,...

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#Loveindies Indie Games - June Roundup

June 3rd, 2019 Jason Coles

June is upon us with #Loveindies fever and with it comes E3. While this might not matter to everyone, it does mean that a lot of games should be announced in the coming weeks. In fact, there will probably be a few games released during E3 as people love a good stealth release. While many triple-A...

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Castlevania Anniversary Collection - Konami Celebrates 50 years

May 16th, 2019 Jason Coles

Konami is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a collection of anniversary editions for some of their popular franchises. Today we take a look at the Castlevania Anniversary Collection. Castlevania - a brief history If you’ve played any indie games in the last two years, then you’ll...

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Indie Games: May Roundup

May 3rd, 2019 Jason Coles

May is here, the sun has arrived (ish), and we are all one month closer to E3. In fact, E3 is literally next month bringing with it whole new swathes of games, weird trailers, and companies trying to be relatable. Well, we aren’t here for that noise, we are here for some of the peculiar little...

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Persona 5 Switch Surprise

April 26th, 2019 Jason Coles

Occasionally (read as quite often) the rumour mill on the internet causes expectations to be incredibly wrong about an upcoming announcement. While this can sometimes lead to disappointment, it can also be quite funny. Well, we finally know what Persona 5 S is, and while it is a Switch game, it...

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Epic calls out steam, promises to stop Exclusives

April 26th, 2019 Jason Coles

Twitter is the gift that keeps on giving. Well, it also rapidly drains all of the joy from you like a dementor, but it occasionally leaves a pound coin under your pillow like a tooth fairy. Is that a fair trade? Better question, did you come here for the philosophical contemplation of the joy of...

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Apex Legends: The Respawn Culture

April 26th, 2019 Jason Coles

"The studio culture that we've worked hard to cultivate, and the health of our team are very important. We take those things into account when we discuss our content roadmap, the production schedule, and the frequency in which we can update the game.” ...

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Overwatch Custom Game modes

April 25th, 2019 Jason Coles

Overwatch already has infinite playtime for many people, so the addition of the upcoming Workshop mode is just icing on a very hefty cake. In a developer update posted this week Jeff Kaplan, the game’s director, shared some details on this exciting new addition. He said that the Workshop mode is...

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Slay the spire sees PS4 release

April 25th, 2019 Jason Coles

Good news for fans of cards and monsters - which, going by the most recent trends in gaming, is pretty much everyone – the fantastic Slay the Spire is coming to PS4 May 21st. Having released properly on PC in January the game has won an awful lot of people over and for good reason. ...

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Anthem sees more delays

April 25th, 2019 Jason Coles

Poor Anthem. It is beginning to feel like it was just put out to die at this point. Between Apex Legends launching just before it, the wrong build being used in the demos and early access, and the smorgasbord of bugs, errors, and crashes, it just hasn’t had a good time. It was even bricking...