I recently had the opportunity to spend three hours in the company of Lara Croft, sampling the first few chapters of the upcoming Shadow of the Tomb Raider.The Tomb Raider franchise holds a very special place in my heart. It was Lara Croft’s first adventure that welcomed be back into gaming after spending my early … Continue Reading ››
I’ve been quite happy using Crucial’s Ballistix memory, but when it comes to showing off your PC rig, illumination is where it’s at.As standard, Geforce GPUs glow green, Asus’ awesome ROG motherboards also come equipped to offer an in-case RGB light show. Even the lowly CPU cooler emits a comforting glow to let you know … Continue Reading ››
Codemasters have been producing top-notch racing games for years now. In the main these have been grounded affairs like their Dirt, Grid and Formula One franchises. Onrush throws all that realism out the window in favour of heart-in-mouth racing mixed with more than a little bit of destruction.I had Onrush pegged as Codemasters’ arcade racing … Continue Reading ››
Jurassic World Evolution is a movie tie-in theme park management game from the same developer as the wonderful Planet Coaster, but is it any good?After years of work-for-hire jobs, including the 3D refinement of the Roller Coaster Tycoon franchise for Atari, Frontier Developments returned to the genre-defining game franchise that they began with and gave … Continue Reading ››
The idea that our machines may soon become sentient is a popular one right now and the subject of the master of interactive storytelling, David Cage’s latest offering, Detroit: Become Human.As with previous games from French outfit, Quantic Dreams, Detroit: Become Human is more interactive movie than straight video game. Anyone expecting any sort of … Continue Reading ››
Following on from last year’s Morrowind, the second full-blown expansion to Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls Online, Summerset, is now available.The Elder Scrolls Online has gone from being a questionable folly, with Bethesda dipping their toes in a saturated MMORPG genre, to coming out on top with a beautiful, immersive addition to their Elder Scrolls mythos.The … Continue Reading ››
The madcap adventures of Monkey D. Luffy’s and the Straw Hat Pirates go portable.The One Piece manga series, written and illustrated by Eliichiro Oda started out as a serial in Japan’s famous Sh?nen Jump weekly anthology magazine. It has since been collected into graphic albums, available the world over, spawned a cartoon show by Toei … Continue Reading ››
The Asus ZenBook Flip S is a laptop that doubles as a tablet, and even comes with a stylus.You’ve got to hand it to Asus. On the one hand they create gaming hardware packed full of in-your-face awesome that’s as subtle as a punch in the guts, but on the other hand they create stylish … Continue Reading ››
