Review by Matt S. Around twenty hours in, and I do still feel like I’ve got a very long way to go with Overwatch. In that time I’ve played around with all of the 21 characters, but only really become comfortable with two of them. But I have played enough…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. If you were to take Destiny and turn it into a top-down shooter, you’d have Alienation. Saying that probably sounds like a disapproval on my part, given that I was not the world’s biggest fan of Destiny… But I do like this one. Related reading: Our…
Read MoreBlockbuster season is basically over now that the end of the year is upon us. One of the last big titles to sneak in this calendar year was Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, which puts a much higher emphasis on tactics and team play than most shooters do. The formula…
Read MoreAnyone who has spent ten minutes reading my writing knows that the shooter genre and I get along about as well as cats and dogs do. Sure, we form temporary alliances so that we can be a tag team for a wonderfully silly children’s movie or two, but for the…
Read MoreWar: The Game is a new global-scale wargame that is being pitched as a budget-priced multiplayer game of grand scale. Because it looks a little basic in static screenshots, we’ve decided to instead do a video review of this one. Rob delves into the way the game is balanced, the…
Read MoreDigitally Downloaded is invading your games! My little avatar is sitting in a cafe, having a mid-afternoon digital coffee and chat with Digitally Downloaded editor, Clark (or, at least, his avatar). They’re not actually doing much. Just performing the in-game action of sitting and chatting via short, single-line conversation bubbles.…
Read MoreThis week, let’s talk about online multiplayer! Almost every game features it now, sometimes there’s no point to including it, but there it is. Usually though, it’s a great way of adding competitive depth to the game. Obviously it’s the FPSers that are the most popular for multiplayer, but as…
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