Bethesda’s acclaimed online game invites players to embark on a new adventure as The Elder Scrolls Online continues its year-long Season of the Dragon with the new Elsweyr chapter.Set a thousand years before the likes of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The Elder Scrolls Online has provided fans of games the opportunity to experience the … Continue Reading ››
My Friend Pedro is a 2.5D no-holds-barred shooter whereby the protagonist is goaded on by a banana called Pedro.Players make their way, from left to right across the screen, shooting bad guys, following Pedro’s instructions. Starting with just a handgun, your unnamed character soon picks up another allowing for a unique dual targeting mechanic to … Continue Reading ››
Creative Assembly have been sating PC owners’ lust for accessible, but deep unit-based strategy games since the original Shogun: Total War back in 2000.For the most part their track record has been impeccable, successfully translating historic conflicts from Feudal Japan to Ancient Britain. In between we’ve visited Roman Europe, the dawn of the United State … Continue Reading ››
CD Project RED, the creators of the acclaimed fantasy adventure, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, have announced that Cyberpunk 2077, their upcoming open-world, sci-fi game, will release April 16th, 2020 on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.The game is now available for pre-order.The Cyberpunk 2077 Collector’s Edition is also available for pre-order and comes packed … Continue Reading ››
It’s a credit to Nintendo that their unique characters can be adapted for use in game genres that you may not have immediately thought that they were a fit for. On a recent trip I revisited a couple of these genre-hopping Nintendo Switch games.When you think of Mario, you think of a jolly, if a … Continue Reading ››
There’s reason I’m writing this review for you and I’m not, instead, an astronaut. It has less to do with my lack of a previous career in the US Airforce or a specialist doctorate, and more to do with me watching far too many unnerving sci-fi movies in my formative years, putting me off the … Continue Reading ››
For me, virtual reality has always been about the experience rather than the gameplay. Right at the very beginning, playing A Chair in a Room: Greenwater with the HTC Vive, I realised that the potential of VR was which it’s ability to immerse the player in the game environment. A Chair in a Room does … Continue Reading ››
Bethesda’s follow-up to their so-so 2010 post-apocalyptic shooter, Rage, is upon us. This time, rather than handle Rage 2 in-house, exclusively using id software, the publisher farmed out some of the development duties to Avalanche Studios, who are no strangers to open-world and post-apocalyptic games.Rage 2 is set some 30 year after it’s predecessor. In … Continue Reading ››
