Review by Matt S. Finally. FINALLY. It only took three years, but 2K Games has finally released Civilization VI onto a console that we all knew was perfectly capable of playing Civilization VI from day one. When the PC version landed back in 2016, 2K sidestepped the question of a…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Civilization finally comes to the PlayStation 4, and of course that was the perfect excuse to leap right back into it and get hooked all over again. I’ve been playing Civilization since the second edition, and I’ve never lost my love for the series. One of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Where video games are complex structures of data, rule sets and mechanics, a good board game should strive to be the opposite; simple elegance. You look at the greatest board games of all time – the likes of Chess and Go, and the thing that stands…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Koei Tecmo continue to be the publisher to watch out for in the early part of the year. On the back of the Atelier Dusk trilogy in January, now we have the latest in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series to look forward to on…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There are two ways to look at Plague Inc.: Either it’s a simple, easy-playing, casual RTS, or it’s a truly terrifying game that has ominous implications for the real world. Or perhaps those aren’t mutually exclusive things. Regardless on how you look at it, Plague Inc.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Tower Five is a new indie startup, comprised of former Total War developers that decided to break away and do their own thing. Their first project, Lornsword Winter Chronicle, is an action strategy game, and it has been announced for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, to…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. While virtually everyone who has an interest in tactics JRPGs is still knee-deep in Fire Emblem, there was another tactics RPG that has been released over the last week that’s well worth a look. Forged of Blood comes to us from an Indonesian independent team, and…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It might be one of Koei Tecmo’s more niche properties, but Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a long running, well-respected series, and each one is one of the finer examples of the grand strategy genre. Based on the book of the same name, this series…
Read MoreReview by James T. The year is 2008. Twitter has just exploded into the stratosphere, Instagram doesn’t exist, people still used their phones to actually call people and fans, are eagerly awaiting the release of Half Life 2: Episode Three. It’s a crazy time. But maybe most important of all,…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Lock’s Quest is an often-forgotten, but rather lovely example of the tower defence genre. From its origins on the Nintendo DS, it has had a HD re-release on all the modern consoles, and for people who discover it, it’s something of a hidden delight! In this…
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