As part of the celebration of 20 years of Xbox, Microsoft has today announced that some 70+ new Xbox and Xbox 360 games have been added to its backwards compatibility list, allowing you to continue playing those games on the newer generation devices. This list has some real hits in…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Did you know that it’s N7 Day? No? Yeah, me neither. I had no idea that EA had arbitrarily declared that there would be a day for the Mass Effect series until I saw people writing articles about it, giving the EA PR team a win…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. It’s happened again, folks. As utterly exhausting and cyclical as this is, another developer had the audacity to release a game that was the right length for what they wanted to do, and here we are having the conversation about whether short games can be good,…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Ever since Nintendo announced the “Expansion Pack” for its online service on Nintendo Switch, I have seen an endless stream of red hot takes (to borrow a Twitter turn of phrase) about how poor value it is.It’s a library of Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis games, along with…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Ah yes. Emulation and piracy. Two of the favourite – and oldest – discourse topics within gaming communities. A white-hot wave of rage erupted today over an article on Kotaku that appeared to be supporting the piracy of Metroid Dread. A game that has been…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. I haven’t played Far Cry 6. I won’t play Far Cry 6. In fact, with the exception of Death Stranding, I haven’t touched a big blockbuster for ages now. The last one I reviewed got me pilloried for not liking a game the amount that…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Over the last couple of weeks there has been an ongoing discussion regarding one upcoming PlayStation 5 game. Project Eve, it’s called, and it goes pretty heavy on the fan service. There has been some criticism on this, but one of the more interesting pieces…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. This is a bit of a think-piece video. Basically, the prevailing idea is that video games can’t be bad. They’re products, and if a game doesn’t turn out the way fans want it to, then the developer should be obliged to “fix” it somehow. The thing…
Read More“News” by Matt S. One of the biggest things to come from Sony’s big day of announcements today was, apparently, an advertisement. I wish I was joking, but of course, capitalism and such, so I’m not. There was a press release about it and everything, as though it was something…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. There’s an insidious little myth out there that suggests that “gamers” want what the AAA industry churns out. It’s used to justify just about everything the AAA industry does. If it were true there wouldn’t be so many examples of games selling multiple millions of copies…
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