EA’s Ghost Studio gets us back in the driving seat with Need for Speed Payback.Taking more than a cue from the Fast and the Furious films, the latest entry in EA Games’ veteran series plunges us head first into the murky world of underground street racers and racketeering.Continue Reading ››

Polyphony’s landmark racing series gets its first PS4 outing with the release of Gran Turismo Sport.Back in the day Gran Turismo broke new ground. The racing game landscape is rather different, today. To say the game is entering a rather crowded genre would be an understatement.Continue Reading ››

Luckless all-American hero, William “B.J.” Blazkowicz, continues his unfortunate misadventures in a terrifying alternative future where the Germans won the Second World War.Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus takes the action to an occupied United States as B.J. leads a rebellion to free his motherland.Having spent most of his life from the end of WWII to … Continue Reading ››

2014’s Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor borrowed heavily from Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed series and Warner’s own Batman Arkham games. The result was a great open world game with exciting combat set within Tolkien’s fantasy world.Monolith and WB Games’ sequel, Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, builds upon what had gone before to create a game that is, for … Continue Reading ››

Big Ben and Kylotonn’s World Rally Championship games have big shoes to fill. Shoes so big, courtesy of Codemasters and their Dirt games, that I tend to feel a bit sorry of them.For the past few years I’ve been hoping and praying that their WRC games can stand up to the Codies latest. Up till … Continue Reading ››

The release of Firaxis’ XCOM 2: War of The Chosen was just the excuse that I needed to return to their excellent turn-based sci-fi strategy game.Initially released in September 2016, XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the reboot of the classic, X-COM: Enemy Unknown from way back in 1994. A deep, turn-based … Continue Reading ››

Creative Assembly returns for another fantasy take on their popular strategy war-gaming series with Total War Warhammer II.For me, one of the major draws of the Total War games is the historical aspect. I wasn’t holding out much hope for last year’s fictional fantasy-based Total War Warhammer. Thankfully I was pleasantly surprised.Continue Reading ››