When I was doing creative writing coursework at university, one of the first and most important lessons that was drummed into us was the phrase “show, don’t tell.” That, indeed, is a mantra that students in high school English classes, and even earlier, will also hear far too often, but…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. There have been several massive acquisitions made in recent weeks, as consolidation in the industry marches ever closer to monopolistic behaviour from a couple of mega-corporations. What is incredible is that there are people out there that actually believe that this is a good thing, that…
Read More
Every time Nintendo does a good thing the company seems obsessed with backing it up with something lousy. Just a week ago Nintendo ran what was arguably the best Nintendo Direct it had done yet, promising a truly astounding range of games over the next year or so. This week…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. When I was doing creative writing coursework at university, one of the first and most important lessons that was drummed into us was the phrase “show, don’t tell.” That, indeed, is a mantra that students in high school English classes, and even earlier, will also hear…
Read MoreList by Matt S. For some reason, the people behind Dying Light 2 are incredibly proud that their game will take 500 hours to fully complete. They boasted on Twitter that it would take longer to achieve this than to walk from Warsaw to Madrid. Now, is it possible that…
Read MoreAs 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 More