Benjamin Burns
29/04/2024
The Road That Led to the Death of Movie Tie-Ins
Goldeneye 007, Disney’s Aladdin, The Lion King, Alien Trilogy, Ducktales, Turtles in Time. These were some of the best games of the ‘90s. They’re also all licensed tie-ins for movies or TV shows. While this genre has an atrocious reputat...
29/04/2024
From Tabletop to Hard Drive - Crafting a Board Game on the PC
Tabletop gaming is seeing a huge resurgence, particularly with the continued success of crowdfunding sites. Last year they utterly hammered their digital counterparts on Kickstarter, raking in $136 million compared to a still impressive $17 million on vid...
29/04/2024
What Happened to Turn-Based Combat in RPGs?
My childhood memories of gaming are punctuated with some of the best RPGs of the ‘90s, games like Vagrant Story, Vandal Hearts and many other titles whose names begin with a ‘V’. To me and many other old farts like me, the console RPG is...
29/04/2024
Cultist Simulator is a Disturbing Study on the Nature of Human Inquisition
Cultist Simulator is the latest effort from Alexis Kennedy and Lottie Bevan, who you may know from their work on the Fallen London games, as well as the awesome mariner/horror mashup that was Sunless Sea. On the surface it’s little more than is a si...
29/04/2024
Will We Ever Program A Replacement For A DM?
Creeping tentatively through a dark cavern on the trail of some murdered cultist, haggling with a market vendor over the price of a magical dagger, helping Granny Scoggins out by killing the level 1 rats in her cellar. These are all classic trappings of t...
29/04/2024
Valve Remakes CS:GO's Iconic Dust 2 Map
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, on the moon, with a towel wrapped around your head for the last twenty years, you’ve probably heard of Counter-Strike. The grandaddy of competitive FPS (which is now on its third iteration in the form of...
29/04/2024
Will 2018 Be the Year We All Start Gaming on Speakers?
The games industry has spawned some truly innovative ways to play. From officially released machines like the Barcode Battler, which took store barcodes from everyday products and turned them into monsters and powerups, to getting Doom to run on just abou...
29/04/2024
Was Steam Greenlight Really That Bad?
Steam Greenlight was announced back in July 2012 as a service for indie developers to get their games onto Valve’s PC platform. It was subsequently retired almost five years later in June 2017 and replaced by Steam Direct. In that time, it received...
29/04/2024
Team UK Brush Aside Opponents to Qualify For Overwatch World Cup Quarterfinals
British gamers have had relatively little to shout about when it comes to pro PC gaming. There are a fair few high-earning console players, particularly Call of Duty pros like Josh Shephard, Ben Bance and Joe Pinnington. There’s also Craig ‘Ra...
29/04/2024
The Darkside Detective Review
Point-and-click adventures are typically a pretty chilled-out experience. Sure, at times, they can be difficult. Sometimes, they can even get frustrating. But when I’m tired, stressed or just in need of some good ol’ fashioned storytelling, it...
29/04/2024
Virtual Reality Check - What the VR Industry Needs to do to Survive
I vividly remember attending EGX 2014 in London and queuing up (as we Brits so love to do) for a chance to try out ‘Elite: Dangerous’ on the Oculus Rift. Only a few of the computers had the Rift installed and it was pot-luck who got to try one...
29/04/2024
Ten Unreleased Games We Would Love to See Resurrected
The recent announcement from Nintendo that their SNES mini system will include Starfox 2, a game which was completed and then binned back in 1995, got me thinking about what else might be worth resurrecting from the video game graveyard. In my relatively...
29/04/2024
What Remains of Edith Finch Review
The ‘walking simulator’ genre, as it is often called by its detractors has seen a surge in quality titles over the last couple of years. Games like Gone Home and Firewatch have brought these first-person adventures to the mainstream and have e...
29/04/2024
Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Collection is Coming to PS4 and Vita
Final Fantasy XV is out and despite my esteemed colleagues somewhat grave review, I think its fair to say that it is a decent RPG with a lot of heart which captures the spirit of the series pretty well. However, there are much better entries into the fran...
29/04/2024
[Editorial] Why Can't I Talk to my Video Games?
A spaceship captain strolls defiantly onto his bridge. Sitting at his chair he asks the computer how it is doing today. “I am fine thank you, captain” replies his AI companion. “Computer” begins the captain, “please recommend...
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