The reviews for Yooka-Laylee went out on Tuesday and they have been a mixed bag! It seems that there's a love hate relationship going on with Yooka-Laylee and the games industry at the moment. We of course have been playing Yooka-Laylee in the background and have simply fallen in love with the...
Last week Alex M and I (Rob) hit the Rezzed show floor to play and talk about games. You may have come across some of our Rezzed articles on this here blog over the past week. We are now rounding off our Rezzed coverage with this final article highlighting the other games we played on the show...
Dishonored 2 is absolutely one of the best immersive sims available, full of different routes to take when murdering people, places to visit when murdering people, and people who get cross about you murdering people*. Now it even has a free trial so if you haven't tried it yet, SHAME ON...
I stood on an alien planet, my robot legs thumping the soil beneath me as my mechanical avatar crunched its way up a hillside. Overhead a flock of birds took flight and I stood for a moment, listening to the wind rustle the grass under alien skies. On that peaceful alien hillside I forgot for a...
When Yooka-Laylee first hit Kickstarter back in 2015, the game's developers, Playtonic Games dubbed the game as a '3D Platformer Rare-vival'. Having played a few hours into the game now, we can safely say that Yooka-Laylee is all that Playtonic promised and a hell of a lot more!
If you are...
The first thing I noticed when I sat down to play a bit of Tokyo 42 was how beautiful it was.
That was the second thing and third thing I noticed too.
See I'd been labouring under a misapprehension. I'd seen trailers before and I'd assumed that Tokyo 42 was like Monument Valley, maybe not in how...
There are some fantastic sequels coming out in 2017 that we simply can't wait to get our hands on. So we have come up with a list of 8 (because lists of 5 or 10 have been way overdone) of the best sequels coming out this year that everyone should have on their radar!
Big Rigs 2: Even Bigger...
Frozen Synapse is an incredibly deep tactical game where you control a squad of clones as they undertake a series of missions in a cyber-punk inspired city. It is beautiful, it has an amazing soundtrack, and it's incredibly unforgiving (especially if you're not the best at strategy games, like...
We are at Rezzed this week and yesterday we only managed to scratch the surface of the amount of games here! So here is a quick rundown of what both Alex and I loved about Rezzed day 1.
Alex M
I really enjoyed sitting down with David Dino from Sumo digital to chat about Snake pass and...
Rezzed kicks off today so we have compiled a list of the games we are most excited to get our grubby mitts on!* Also if you spot either Rob or Alex M on the show floor feel free to say hi!
*We'll wash our hands before we play any games, promise.
Snake Pass
Okay so this game came out on...
Mass Effect: Andromeda has finally landed! You may have noticed that the game has been getting some flack from reviewers over the past few days. When we jumped into the Andromeda Galaxy however, we had fun! So here are our top 5 things we love about Mass Effect: Andromeda.
The non-human...