Gaming

I came to horror late in my teenage years. I had brushed against it regularly enough with comedy-horrors like the Scary Movie series or The Cabin in the Woods. I devoured Stephen King's novels by the ton but these things never truly scared…

The gaming industry as we know it today has a couple of key innovations to thank, namely the television, the home PC, a string of key consoles and by extension game designers, and lastly, the smartphone. There are of course other candidates…

Headsets, particularly the gaming variety, can be a pretty pricey product. There are several varieties but they all do basically the same thing. This product by Corsair might be more comfortable. That Razer set might be more durable.…

I am not a patient man. At least not when it comes to video games. I've enjoyed plenty of games that I've left unfinished because of a boss stonewalling, poor platforming or just bad and repetitive story beats. Dark Souls II, Sekiro,…

I don’t think anyone working on Death Stranding would have guessed that their game would be the perfect encapsulation of 2020. In fact, the game didn’t even initially release last year; the PS4 version came out in 2019. But it was the PC…

I've been playing propaganda for most of my adolescence and adult life. But I have had the luck and the privilege to have developed the basic critical thinking skills to recognize propaganda early on. The thing about propaganda is that it's…

Looking at the position IO Interactive now finds itself in - a critically acclaimed and very well liked return to form for their flagship series finished, and moving onto the first 007 game in almost a decade - you'd be forgiven for…

It's often we consider America and Japan as the powerhouses and tastemakers when it comes to video games. Between them they have produced nearly all of the games that define what video games are. Be it Pac-Man, The Legend of Zelda, Call of…

Lights, Camera, Action Button! is a series exploring film-to-game adaptations in regard to their faithfulness, quality and value long after the original film may have passed into nostalgia. In this edition Jack Ford looks at The Spongebob…

Video games are a serious business. All over the world, more and more people are playing video games, to the point that some countries are creating their own national teams. There are also countless YouTubers who talk about video games…