Nintendo Classic SNES Mini Review

Welcome to Windows 95… err I mean the Classic SNES Mini The SNES Classic menu screen is all a bit Windows 95. It’s almost like they made it in Mario Paint. Some people might like the retro looking menus but…

No Man’s Sky: A Learned Lesson In Over Promising

The Promise Is A Dangerous Thing It has been a year since gamer’s finally got their hands on the highly anticipated No Man’s Sky. For Hello Games this marked the beginning of the sky falling down around them. The backlash…

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…

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…

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…

Why Video Game Dogs Aren’t Always Good Dogs | Video Essay

Video Game Dogs Aren’t Always Delightful While video games dogs are, more often than not, a delight to be around. Very few of them feel like real dogs. Every digital doggo deserves to be its best. We take a look…

The Gardens Between Is A Stunning Adventure About Friendship, Light And Memories

Scanning the current television zeitgeist you’ll find that a recurring theme in the most popular shows right now, across all genres, in friendship. Popular Netflix sci-fi series, Stranger Things is a show about a group of boys trying to save…

Comfort Gaming: The Best Gun Free Games Of 2017

After nearly two decades of scouring invading species, ‘safeguarding’ our world from terrorist organisations and employing ‘negotiating’ tactics with a series of grunts and quips, I think I’m retiring from shooter games. The reality we’ve found ourselves in today seems…