News by Matt S. Activision Blizzard is currently embroiled in a lawsuit from the American state of California, dealing with the accusation that it has a culture of ‘constant sexual harassment. That lawsuit has inspired others to come forward too, with the recent news that the company deadnames trans QA…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Activision can screw off. That’s the big bit of news this week after the company announced that it was going to axe 200 people while giving CEO, Bobby Kotick, a bonus of $200 million. I’d say “stop supporting Activision,” but the video game industry does love…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. From 1945 through to 1991, the world existed in a state of perpetual tension as two superpowers – The Soviet Union and the United States – vied for control over the planet and its resources. Now, as the world heads into a second Cold War between…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. I cannot make myself play the recently-released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare any longer. And I cannot review it. It is a piece of jingoistic, military hero worship propaganda, and the way that it blatantly re-writes history in order to prop up an aggressively nationalistic perspective…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. What a delight Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is. For whatever reason it has proven to be hard for developers to even compete with Mario Kart, sitting high on its kart-racing party game pedestal, and while Crash Team Racing doesn’t quite get there, it’s the closest anyone…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. It is clear that FromSoftware knows its way around epic action games, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice provides plenty of combat action. There are some similarities to FromSoftware’s popular Souls series, but Sekiro also brings plenty of new elements to the table as well while carving…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Sekiro comes out in about a month, and I’ve finally had some hands-on time with it! In this video I show you a couple of bosses that I fight along the way, and share some thoughts about how FromSoftware’s latest compares to some of its peers,…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Everyone loves to rip on Activision Blizzard, and this morning, as the company shared its financial results and updated shareholders on its strategy, the entire games industry was handed a real gift for that collective hobby. “Activision Blizzard reports historic earnings among big layoffs” the headlines…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is coming to us from FromSoftware and Activision, and it’s certainly one of the biggest and most exciting Japanese games on the agenda for 2019. A new “story trailer” has landed for the game. It’s only a minute long, but it is…
Read MoreReview by Lachlan W. Have you ever gone to the movies and just wanted to stick your whole entire face under the popcorn machine? Sweet simple carb rush, breezy airiness of a mostly empty product, and the guilt of having to go for a jog to burn off all that…
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