Will Butler
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Will is a music journalist by day and a bleeding-heart Nintendo shill by night. He possesses a passion for video games that was forged by years of Pokémon marathons by lamplight. These days Will loses sleep over the lore of Kingdom Hearts and does his best to write shorter sentences.

EGX Rezzed 2018: The Best Things We Played

EGX Rezzed has proved once again that games conferences don’t have to just be sweat boxes full of over-excited fans, overpriced coffee and out-of-the-door queues. They can be all that and more! Rezzed is a personal favourite of GAMR’s and…

The Games We Can’t Wait To Play In 2018

Last year was a garbage-pile on fire for almost everyone. It feels like we’ve never been more divided and that our world has significantly less humanity in it than it did years previous. It also happened to be one of…

The Last Of Us 2 Trailer Uses Brutal Violence To Sell Itself, And That’s Wrong

Yesterday, Sony Europe stared the world’s comfort levels straight in the eye and refused to blink. At Paris Games Week, Playstation’s keynote conference showcased a strong 2018 line-up. Among the new reveals were Spelunky 2, fantasy adventure Oure and Guacamelee…

Graceful Explosion Machine Review

Feels Like Being A Space Pilot There aren’t many games that make me feel like I’m piloting a sci-fi accurate spacecraft. This is, namely, because it’s hard to simulate a sensation that’s unbeknownst to 100% of humanity. Our collective reference…

Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles Review

An Explorative Gem Five minutes into Prideful Sloth’s Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles, a blatant parallel can be drawn to Breath Of The Wild. Your character, shipwrecked and premise-less, leaves a cave with only a faint sense of location. Emerging…

Injustice 2 Is A Role-Playing Game

Injustice 2 Is So Much More Than Just An Excellent DC Fighting Game I love superheroes, I love everything about them. From their complicated backstories to how terrible their games mostly are. I love how problematic the people who make…

Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles Is Bringing Heart Back To Exploration Games

The Return Of Heart In Exploration Games Perusing the comment section for any gameplay videos of Prideful Sloth’s Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles, you’ll see a lot of language that refers to the game as “childlike”, “cute” and admissions of…

The Architecture Of Grand Theft Auto V | Video Essay

The Architecture Of Grand Theft Auto V Delivers A Rich and Diverse Digital Playground GTA V’s Los Santos, like most American cities, makes you spend a lot of time in your car. You don’t need to have any regard for…

Knights And Bikes Preview at EGX Rezzed

Knights And Bikes Is Gorgeous, Heartfelt And Joyous I walked away from my Knights and Bikes play session at EGX Rezzed stiff and smiling. Smiling because the co-op adventure game from Foamsword studios is the gorgeous, heartfelt and joyous game…

The Town Of Light Preview at EGX Rezzed

The Town Of Light Brings Horror In History The go-to phrase employed to describe LKA.it’s The Town Of Light is “a different kind of horror game”. While true, after getting my hands on the console build for the Italian development…