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HARD WEST REVIEW
I don’t think anybody will scoff at me for saying that there are too few Wild West video games being made these days. Call of Juarez had something going for it, but the series’ arguably best game got forgotten extremely quickly. Red Dead Redemption isn’t even available on PC, making it irrelevant on my platform of choice, and whatever indie pops up from time to time falls into obscurity faster tha...[Read More]
FALLOUT 4 REVIEW
As I wandered the Wasteland in Fallout 4, I was transported to another world, another time and it is one that I have seen before. I was Mel Gibson as Mad Max, I was Denzel in The Book of Eli, Will Smith in I am Legend and Van Dam in Cyborg. I was all of these things and more: I was the Vault Dweller, The Wanderer, and the Saviour of the Commonwealth. Fallout 4 has been eagerly awaited by an astoun...[Read More]
Between Me And The Night Preview | MOUSE n JOYPAD
When I went to art school, the period I loved the most was Surrealist. Bending my environment and using the outlandish to express my emotions, it all just made sense. Without making any at all. Between Me and The Night seems to be trying to walk that line, in what the developer calls “the thin path between sanity and madness.†Of course, when I saw the game I hopped all over it, ready t...[Read More]
Orsinium Now Available For The Elder Scrolls Online | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Today Bethesda have announced that Orsinium, the second DLC game pack for the award-winning multiplayer roleplaying game The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited, is now available worldwide for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Orsinium, the ancestral home of the Orcs, is being rebuilt deep in the Wrothgar Mountains, and King Kurog has sent out a call across Tamriel for intrepid adventurers to assist...[Read More]
Impossible Creatures Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
 Once a developer has a popular IP or two under their belt, people tend to forget about their previous, less well-known releases. Take Bungie for example, whose Halo vastly overshadows, say, Marathon. Or perhaps the authors of Divinity: Original Sin, in whose case the mediocrity of their previous work got forgiven and forgotten really, really fast (and for good reason). The same thing happ...[Read More]