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John-Paul Jones

John-Paul Jones

Scribbling about videogames since 2005, John-Paul Jones first stoked his love for the industry with the Atari 65XE at the age of four before proceeding onto the ZX Spectrum, Amiga and beyond. These days, he finds himself unreasonably excited about Sega's Yakuza franchise, foreign cinema and generally trying to keep his trio of sausage dogs from burning his house down. Clearly, he is living his best life right now.

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Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair: A Progressive Love-Letter To The Classics
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Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair: A Progressive Love-Letter To The Classics

October 14th, 2019 John-Paul Jones
In case you’ve been having an extended stay under a four-star rock, you’ll know that Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is not only out on store shelves right now, but also that it’s very good. More than that though, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is as much a loving and glorious...
Scandimania - Five Of The Top Scandinavian Developers In The Industry Today
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Scandimania - Five Of The Top Scandinavian Developers In The Industry Today

October 7th, 2019 John-Paul Jones
It’s certainly fair to say that great developers can be found in more places than just on this lovely island of ours, and indeed, perhaps nowhere is the concentration of great industry talent more keenly observed than in the Scandinavian countries.  So with that in mind, here are five...
Five of The Best British Indie Developers Out There Today
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Five of The Best British Indie Developers Out There Today

September 23rd, 2019 John-Paul Jones
With there being enough depressing stuff in the news regarding good ol’ Blighty to shunt the Earth off its axis, we thought it would be both timely and nice to celebrate some of the best British indie developers out there today. So without further ado, here are five of the best indie...
GreedFall - How Spiders Have Crafted The Next Essential RPG
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GreedFall - How Spiders Have Crafted The Next Essential RPG

September 9th, 2019 John-Paul Jones
After cutting its RPG teeth on Mars: War Logs before going onto make Bound by Flame and The Technomancer, French developer Spiders looks set to deliver its most epic odyssey to date with GreedFall. The sort of sprawling, spectacle stuffed open world adventure that you’d expect to emanate from...
Ten Glorious Indies To Whisk You Away
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Ten Glorious Indies To Whisk You Away

August 27th, 2019 John-Paul Jones
After a cracking hot summer, it’s pretty much par for the course here in the UK that such great weather is capped by a dismal period as we begin our gradual slide into autumn and march inexorably toward the frigid, wintery wastes that lay beyond. Fear not, however - as we’ve put together a...
No Man's Sky Beyond - Ten New Reasons To Return to Hello Games Spacefaring Epic
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No Man's Sky Beyond - Ten New Reasons To Return to Hello Games Spacefaring Epic

August 14th, 2019 John-Paul Jones
With three years of extensive post-release support in the bag for its wildly ambitious space epic No Man’s Sky, developer Hello Games has gone a step further with today’s Beyond update; bringing a raft of promised features and previously unknown additions to the game. As such, there’s no...
Ion Fury - Everything you need to know (and love) about this fabulously retro FPS
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Ion Fury - Everything you need to know (and love) about this fabulously retro FPS

August 12th, 2019 John-Paul Jones
Back in the deeply dark days of 1996, there was Duke Nukem 3D, a vintage first-person shooter in which the only thing bigger than Mr. Nukem’s sprawling arsenal of bang-bang, was the cuss-spewing mouth affixed to his square-jawed mug. Now, in 2019, we have Ion Fury.  Continuing on that grand...
Top 10 Indies you haven't played yet #Loveindies
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Top 10 Indies you haven't played yet #Loveindies

June 17th, 2019 John-Paul Jones
If you've been paying attention to our social channels you would have seen the wonderful #loveindies campaign put together by Fail Better Games bringing you some great reviews of the ten best indie games you haven't played. We thought they were so good we wanted to collect them all in a single...
10 reasons Rage 2 is a proper id Software game
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10 reasons Rage 2 is a proper id Software game

May 24th, 2019 John-Paul Jones
With Rage 2 out there doing the business, it’s worth shining a light on the fact that there is more to the game than it just being Shooter Man (or woman, actually) Mc Shooty Face Part Deux. Indeed, roughly half of Rage 2’s design DNA (the shooty bits, obviously) come from The House That...
Outward and how it effectively fashions its complete lack of hand holding into a virtue
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Outward and how it effectively fashions its complete lack of hand holding into a virtue

April 23rd, 2019 John-Paul Jones
I'm not sure about you lot, but the whole concept of playing some big, puffed-up hero in a fantasy world with some sort of epic, overarching and burdensome destiny to fulfil is wearing on me a bit these days. So it is then that Outward from Nine Dots Studio provides some much needed respite in...
How Apex Legends Wordless Player Communication Sets It Apart
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How Apex Legends Wordless Player Communication Sets It Apart

February 20th, 2019 John-Paul Jones
Between the higher health counts of other players and the combined teamworking capabilities of Apex Legends tightly-knit squads, it’s absolutely clear that Respawn’s latest offering is not one where you can expect any kind of ongoing success as a solo player. More than just ascribing to the...
How Capcom Created The Perfect Remake With Resident Evil 2
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How Capcom Created The Perfect Remake With Resident Evil 2

February 11th, 2019 John-Paul Jones
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last few weeks, you’ll probably be aware of the fact that Capcom’s Resident Evil 2 has been doing the business both critically and commercially since its release at the end of January. Key to the success of Resident Evil 2 is the fact that the...
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