Animal Crossing NH: Escapism for When You Can’t Escape Your House
The perfect game for isolation.
Cancel The Hype Train
Pre-ordering games has never really been my scene. While there has been a few exceptions, I typically tend to wait until a game has been released and most review scores…
Sekiro: Difficult Complaints and Complaints about Difficulty
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is the newest and most punishing title in From Software’s legacy of challenging games, born from the studios desire to better explore their ideas for a…
EXTRA LIFE: eSports’ Mental Health Crisis
This lack of regulation within eSports is backed by an insidious culture of ‘play hard, work harder’.
Words with Lana Rothnie, Professional Gamer
Age of Empires 2, an 18-year-old game, is experiencing a renascence and cashing in on this has proven quite lucrative to some professional players. Jesse Wood writes.
Top 8 Tap Games (that will leave you Feeling Hollow)
Prepare to lose hours of your life. Martha Wood writes.
Review: Middens
Expression evolves alongside technology, and while the surrealist artists worked largely with oil painting, sculpture and photography, audience interaction was largely interpretive, and inherently reactive. To express what was hidden…
Game Development and the ‘Crunch Time’
If people like St John and Molyneux understood that the only reason people take a minimum-wage job to toil away on videogames was because they love the medium, perhaps then…
It’s About ‘Story’
Blizzard is slightly reducing the sexual-objectification of its female characters, even if their official reasons for doing so are weak. The benefit being that the euphemism of characterisation is easier…