Right up until November 14, 2017, my disdain for the card battler genre was both all-consuming and utterly ignorant. Though I had tried my hands at earlier fare such as Blizzard’s Hearthstone among others, it’s fair to say that card battler games just didn’t click with me and as time went on...
With the Metroidvania subgenre stretching back decades, it can sometimes feel like the well of innovation is running a little dry at times, with the high points of the genre such as Hollow Knight and Dead Cells seemingly so far and above their peers when it comes to a richness of imagination....
With Green Man Gaming turning a golden fourteen years old this month, it can perhaps be a little too easy to forget the years and decades of truly great games that have come and gone in that time. Luckily, we’ve conjured up this feature to remind you just what the best games were of the last...
With so many popular video-game franchises receiving sequel upon sequel, it can sometimes be easy to forget that there are a whole bunch of really decent titles that never had a chance to finish their story, as it were. As such, here are ten great games that we feel are in desperate need of the...
A cursory look at the landscape of the 4X strategy genre on PC will inform you that tactically-minded gamers have never had it better. The latest entry in what appears to be a genre in danger of overcrowding, Millennia from publisher Paradox Interactive and developer C Prompt Games nonetheless...
Generously awash with all manner of traditional fantasy settings, glossy sci-fi backdrops and the Dark Souls-inspired grimdark worlds, increasingly it seems that the sense of a truly unique setting is becoming harder and harder to realise in the RPG genre. Enter The Thaumaturge. The latest title...
Yes it’s true! The music world and video games have crossed over many-a-time before. With Drake being a player of Fortnite and now Travis Scott performing an awesome virtual concert within the game. Video games have always been a prominent part of a modern day artists’ life growing up and this...
World Book Day lets us come together on the first Thursday of every March to celebrate the best fiction medium that’s ever existed. That’s right, the video game tie-in novel.
Many games contain a novel's worth of text and fiction, but strangely the video game tie-in novel is still...
Update: The Elder Scrolls is 25 today, so to celebrate here's a look back at all the Elder Scrolls games in order of goodness. Enjoy!
The Elder Scrolls: Arena came out in 1994 and since then we've seen a lot of sequels, spin offs, expansions, horse armour, and even an MMO. BUT you ask, what's the...
In 2018 EA made 5.15 billion dollars in net revenue (up from 4.84 billion in 2017). Despite this, the company still remains one of the most hated companies in the world. Known most widely as the purveyor of numerous sport games - like FIFA or Madden – EA has a lot on its shoulders with plenty of...
I don't go to Subway very often.
I go through the door and queue up. Eventually I reach the counter and the staff ask me what sandwich I want. I indicate my choice, and asked what size sandwich. Then I'm asked what bread I want. How about cheese. Do I want it toasted? Now salad. Lettuce?...
The evolution of how we watch gameplay video has been a back and forth battle between the goliaths of YouTube and Twitch for a few years. Lately this has been heating up and just as Twitch's video scheduling services is bedding in another contender enters the fray; YouTube has announced their new...