Gaming

Violent games are a dime a dozen and I've written about plenty of them for HeadStuff. Some delve into the depths of their characters' minds as to why they commit so much brutal violence. For some it's about freeing the world from Nazi…

In video games, we only have three senses. You can intake the game most directly using your sight. You see the cinematics, you glance at the HUD and gauge your health and mana, and generally learn how to react to the games mechanics.…

Warning: Story spoilers for Divinity Original Sin 2 lie ahead... As we walked into The Fumbally Café in Dublin City on April 20th, the face of writer Sarah Baylus lit up with excitement. A Lauren Hill song was playing on the radio, leading…

Ah, the Grand Theft Auto games. Who hasn’t gone over to that one friend’s house - whose parents were apathetic or unobservant enough to give their child one of the most controversial games of all time - and spent hours murderously rampaging…

If there are two things that I can say with absolute certainty it's the following:  I love movies, and I love Metal Gear Solid. So the very real prospect of these two colliding in the soon to be Metal Gear Solid movie is one that fills me…

It’s cliché but true that nothing exists in or comes from a vacuum, and video games are no exception to this. Nowadays, video games have become so widespread that the terms gaming and gamers are treated by most as basically synonymous with…

July 7, 2009. It’s midnight. Everyone’s sound asleep in their standing coffins. Well, almost everyone. There’s a small group of armed teenagers sneaking into a love hotel. It’s a bizarre tableau, perhaps, but it’s par for the course in Port…

Gaming is filled to the brim with cult classics. Games that don’t do well on sales but thrive on review scores and audience appreciation are sometimes robbed of direct support they deserve. Sure they have a ton of fan celebration, but at…

Mortal Kombat II is a game without a release date. I'm not saying it just appeared one day out of the Nether Realm so that Quan Chi could use it to influence the children of Earth Realm so that they'd rip each other limb from limb and…

Back in 2008, the Nintendo Wii was the hottest console on the market. It was the casual phenomenon that no house went without. Everyone and their grandmother had one, if even just for Wii Sports bowling and Wii Fit in the grandmother’s…