‘GAMES as a Service’ is, essentially, the idea for a game that is constantly updated with new content, patches, loot-boxes and other things post-release in order to keep people buying things for the game....
SPOILERS ahead. Y2K. The Millennium Dome. A crushing sense of existential dread. The war on terror. The sweeping, all-consuming tsunami of the internet. This, among others, was the advent of the year 2000, one...
In this week’s Breaking Down the Backlog; I ran up walls, brutally murdered countless guards and broke hundreds of light-bulbs. Klei are one hell of a developer. Mark of the Ninja, in my mental...
SPOILERS ahead. In many ways, Final Fantasy – the series – was always leading up to Final Fantasy IX. Though the road was long and circuitous; though the path diverged in unforeseen directions; though...
In this week’s Breaking Down the Backlog, I uncovered my real name. So after roughly a decade of failed attempts to finish Planescape: Torment, I have finally reached the end. When I sat there watching...
Its Nintendo Direct time! This one was basically outlining Nintendo’s plan for the Christmas period and beyond. I have to say, if you compare the exclusive software coming out of Nintendo to Playstation and...
SPOILERS ahead. Be warned. So. Final Fantasy VII. The game that made Square a household name. The game that sold the Playstation. The game that redefined the Western world’s conception of an RPG. The...
In this week’s Breaking Down the Backlog, I burned my intestines to ash, snogged a half-demon and discovered what can change the nature of a man. I’ve just finished the second third of Planescape:...
Mark Laidlaw, the man who wrote Half Life, Half Life 2 and was the lead writer for the subsequent two Episodes, posted on his personal blog the entire plot to the mythical Episode 3. Why he did this or...
Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of the previous Final Fantasy VII article, which can be found here. It is a game of such cultural and technical importance that I felt it needed more than...
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