The Early Access of Baldur's Gate 3 is beyond fun, but like all early builds of big games, it has plenty of bugs, big and small. After the latest patch, I thought I went through my footage and found the most egregiously fun of them. For your viewing pleasure, here are my five favourite bugs... Continue Reading →
Immortals: Fenyx Rising Developer Announces Post-Launch Plans, New Protagonists and World
The one Ubisoft game I still feel a morsel of excitement over is the generically named Immortals: Fenyx Rising, formerly labeled Gods & Monsters; titles, in either case, which leave much to desire. The game promises an irreverent take on Greek mythology, which borrows a little from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild... Continue Reading →
Microsoft to Continue Buying Studios, Series X/S Shortages To Continue Onto Next Year
Xbox's CFO Tim Stuart gave a talk at the Jefferies Interactive Entertainment Virtual Conference on November 12, where some of his remarks sketch out the issues Xbox faces in shipping their newest consoles, the Microsoft entertainment division's future plans for the Xbox Game Pass, and how Bethesda's acquisition will prioritize Xbox's platforms before all others. Stuart... Continue Reading →
Griftlands Early Access — Is It Worth It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmeaQEjD6f8&feature=youtu.be Early Access is so often little more than a grift, a calculated money grab intent on screwing the players over little more than a promising idea – but that has not been the case with Klei Entertainment’s previous games, and it certainly isn’t with the developer’s latest. Griftlands is an excellent roguelike deck builder... Continue Reading →
Darkest Dungeon: The Butcher’s Circus – A Free Mode Nobody Wanted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdPKs3XdKC0 The Butcher’s Circus offers one thing I never thought to see in the Darkest Dungeon – a PvP mode! I could hardly believe it when I first saw the announcement. But curiosity won out in the end, and here I am, sharing with you my impressions – short as they are. The narrator makes... Continue Reading →
DOOM Eternal Review: Nearly a Masterpiece
Here it is, my latest gaming review/essay on Doom Eternal's design! Take a look, I'm happy how it turned out. https://youtu.be/x9IsajWJRwU DOOM Eternal is the most intense first-person shooter I have ever played and would've been a masterpiece, if not for a few strange, bizarre, and downright bad design decisions which take away from the... Continue Reading →
Hades: The Welcome To Hell Update (State of the Game)
https://youtu.be/VrgpRRl6eFQ Hades continues to develop in a great direction with the last update of 2019, Welcome to Hell. With only five days away from the next big patch, I thought I'd take a look at the State of the Game of my favourite Early Access title as it is right before the Demeter update! The... Continue Reading →
STAR WARS JEDI: FALLEN ORDER REVIEW – Excellent, Buggy, Lacking Ambition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6UDmBLUwUY Jedi: Fallen Order has a lot going for it - an excellent story, an addictive combat system and plenty of Metroidvania elements in the planets we players explore as we take on the role of Cal Kestis. Unfortunately, Fallen Order is also plagued by bugs and the number of gameplay systems directly copied from... Continue Reading →
Revisiting the Classics: Hellblade – Senua’s Sacrifice, a Descent into the Underworld
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgDoV76A3RI I don't necessarily have the best opinion of content I've worked on in the past but I had a friend over this last Friday and I happened to show her the trailer of the recently announced Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 (it looks great, you can see it here) and she'd never heard of the... Continue Reading →
