The first thing that struck me when starting Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced was just how colourful it is. The original game was released in a period of AAA gaming where colour depth was in very short supply. Colour palettes were muted, and soft, bloomy lighting gave the game a dreamlike effect. Resynced could not […]
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is out now for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2 and PC, and the reviews have begun rolling in. As it currently stands, the game is currently sitting on a pretty healthy aggregated score of a solid 82 on Metacritic. While the game hasn’t had a ton of buzz since its
I’ll admit to never having been a huge Bond fan, having caught most of the Daniel Craig films as they were released and retroactively dabbled in the Pierce Brosnan era, but never really engaging with the cinema franchise. But the video games, those I fuck with. Goldeneye 007 is an obvious pick, as influential as
007 First Light is out this week on Wednesday, May 27 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, and the reviews have begun rolling in. As it currently stands, the game is currently sitting on a pretty healthy aggregated score of a solid 88 on Metacritic. There’s every chance that the Metacritic total will move around a little
It’s been a full four years since TT Games gave us LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, and while LEGO has, in that time, experimented with various other ways to deliver a LEGO video game, it’s great to be back in the hands of the studio that really shifted the paradigm starting with 2005’s LEGO
There’s something special about the Forza Horizon games. It’s a rare series that’s trying to be almost all things to almost all people and actually pulls it off. Forza Horizon has always been a place where people who like playing video games with cars would have a good time, whether they wanted to be playing
Two Point Museum is without a doubt the strongest entry in Two Point Studios’ run of delightfully-silly management sims so far, and it’s one that I’ve been yearning to revisit ever since seeing out everything it had to offer at launch. While there has already been some new content added to the game between then
It’s been said that there are no original stories left; that every narrative we get now is simply at worst a retread or at best a remix of what came before. None of that really matters if the execution is good, but that can’t always be the case. These potential pitfalls are felt more sharply
