Games

2019’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was something of a reset for the series. After a couple of years of less popular instalments, Modern Warfare brought things back to the setting and milieu that made the series the juggernaut it is today. Alongside the core experience, Activision also launched Call of Duty: Warzone, a battle … Read more

There’s no denying the fact that every new video game released meets with an over-saturated market and may well go unnoticed, as a consequence. To put it into perspective, a reported 10,696 individual games were released to Steam in 2021, an increase of 3,151% over the same figure for 2011. For many indie developers, this is an … Read more

If you’re a tabletop aficionado, you might have heard of Button Shy. It’s the smallest of small tabletop game publishers, being just founder Jason Tagmire and a group of like-minded folks working out of a small space in New Jersey. Despite its relatively modest operation, Button Shy has managed to create some of the most … Read more

The Watch Dogs series from Ubisoft is far from its best-known series, but it has quietly amassed a huge following over the last decade. After the recent announcement that the online version of Watch Dogs: Legion would no longer receive updates, fans have been wondering what this means for the franchise. There is speculation that … Read more

The global phenomenon that is social media provides people with the opportunity to interact with one another through an online medium. What’s more, social media also fosters new consumers and builds communities in an engaging and entertaining way. More than ever before, online platforms are attracting people from around the world. As a matter of … Read more

Sometimes, despite a developer’s best intentions, a project just doesn’t come together. At other times, an overabundance of ambition or a faulty design document mean that a game is essentially doomed before it even hears the starting pistol. In some ways, these games are worthy of celebration; they’re cautionary tales that show other developers what … Read more

For many, the core reason to play video games is challenge. Some play to relax, others to socialise, and still others simply to kill time, but for a lot of gamers, challenge is the crux of what makes a game satisfying to play. There are many developers who recognise this, deliberately creating incredibly challenging games … Read more

Sony’s PlayStation 3 started off at an unfair disadvantage. The Xbox 360 released more than a year before the PS3 got the chance to wow the market, and as such, many gamers had already declared their allegiance before Sony’s console could hook them in. That’s a shame, because the PS3 was a pretty amazing console … Read more

The Wii often gets a bad rap. Hardcore gamers dismiss it as a casual console, intended only for families to play and with no real, serious gaming experiences to be had. This is a gross underestimation of how many great games there are on the Wii. This is, after all, a Nintendo console, and Nintendo … Read more

The Wii U is an unfairly maligned console. Sure, the controller was unwieldy and difficult to use, and its battery life was weak, too, but the Wii U had one advantage over its competitors: it was, pure and simple, a games console. It wasn’t trying to be some kind of home media centre, nor did … Read more