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Finding the Sweet Spot: How to Mix Caffeine and Gaming
If you’re an avid gamer, you know the importance of staying in the zone on game night. Whether you’re taking part in a tournament or having a gaming marathon with your friends, staying alert throughout the entire experience is important. …
A Hobby for All Ages: The Rise of the Senior Citizen Gamer
Gaming, for the majority of its existence, has been largely seen as just an indulgent hobby younger generations enjoy. However, video games have evolved over time and are now considered a major part of pop culture. For example, the love of…
Lights, Camera, Action Button! Minority Report: Everybody Runs
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 Minority…
Game Review | Is Crash Bandicoot 4 a “Whao!” or a No?
In recent years, we’ve had a number of franchises who decided to come out with a sequel that disregarded a lot of the preceding dead weight of the series. Terminator Dark Fate positioned itself as a direct sequel to the last film in that…
Tread Softly and Carry a Big Gun: Empowerment Through Weaponry in Horror Gaming
Aim for the head. Slice off the limbs. Burn the rotting corpse. Suck the spirit into a vacuum. The ways in which we can kill our fears in horror games are numerous but that doesn't make them any less terrifying. That doesn't mean we ever…
Lost Masters: FTL Reached for the Stars and Landed in a Whole Other Galaxy
Lost Masters is a series of articles that endeavours to take a fresh look at brilliant games that flew under the radar at the time of their release. This month Gaming Editor Andrew Carroll looks at FTL. Space, the final isometric frontier.…
Lessons Unlearned: The Last of Us Part II Deserved a Better Ending
*This post contains spoilers for both The Last of Us games.* It's rare I'll play a game in order to experience the consequences of my actions as a player. If it's an RPG I'll go all in agonising over whether to leave either Ashley or…
Horror is the Not-So-Secret Weapon of Night in the Woods
The fog of depression is much more noticeable on the first play through of Infinite Fall's Night in the Woods. The economic depression afflicting the old mining town of Possum Springs. The depressed fugue state main character Mae spends…
Ubisoft’s #MeToo Reckoning Has Opened New Doors for Them and for Gaming
In early summer 2020 a wave of sexual harassment and misconduct accusations hit the French developer and publisher Ubisoft. As June gave way to July gave way to August leading figures in the company including but not limited to Creative…
Light It Up! Modern Lighting in The Witcher 3, Control and More
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is five years old and I'm still blown away by its sunsets. They are, hands down, the most beautiful and underrated part of one of the best RPGs ever made. From dawn's first grey touches to the glaring white of the…