Reviews by Matt S. The end of year rush is always so busy that I inevitably miss some games that I had otherwise planned on playing and reviewing (the awards really do take a lot out of me), and then Christmas break hits, and I really do my best to…
Read MoreFeature by Harvard L. This is an unexpected opportunity to delve into a backburner project of mine which I never thought was going to come to light. A few months ago I was having fun with 51 Classic Games for Nintendo Switch (which I’m just going to call Clubhouse Games…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Chess, along with Go, must surely be two of the most venerated games in the history of humankind. There aren’t many other games out there that still have competitive scenes 1,300 odd years after being invented. League of Legends certainly won’t. The reason for these games…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. People wouldn’t necessarily associate chess with video games that needed cutting edge visuals. After all, chess is a remarkably simple and abstract board game in design that contains a handful of pieces and a simple checkered board as the play field. Related reading: Nick’s review of…
Read MoreReview by Owen S. Chess is a revered game-called-sport, with a place in culture is perhaps unmatched by any other pastime. Champions and ‘grandmasters’ are revered for their intellect. Names such as Bobby Fisher inspire images of greatness. It seeps through popular culture, from characters like Leonard and Sheldon on…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Having the audacity to try and come up with a sequel to the (literally) ancient game of chess takes gonads. And yet that is exactly what David Sirlin is doing with the straightforwardly-named Chess 2. Sirlin might not be a name that is instantly recognisable, but…
Read MoreReview by Nick H.Chess itself is a game that needs very little introduction or explanation – either you know how to play it or you do not. I learned at a pretty early age, though I have no delusions about having mastered it. In fact, I would openly state that…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. VooFoo continues on its quest to get Pure Chess on to every gaming platform known to man with a PlayStation 4 version of the game to land on April 15 in the US, or April 16 for Europeans. Although we had our issues with the recently-released…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. Chess has never been a spectacle of a sport in the same way as other great games are but that hasn’t impeded its capacity to deliver high-stakes, strategic action over a period lengthier than a millennium. So given that Digitally Downloaded’s editor-in-chief has practically gushed over…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. We’ve reviewed Pure Chess in the past. It’s been across just about every game platform I own now, in fact, and the standard has been astronomical across the board (hah, there’s a pun for you in the opening paragraph). The Wii U version is the latest…
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