(Presented below is another guest review by my wife for Life is Strange –Episodes 4 and 5 that she originally wrote in two parts for her own blog. I’ve not actually played this game, but I’ve watched my wife play it and it seems excel...

After the release of the critically acclaimed Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, hopes were high and anticipation through the roof for Naughty Dog’s next and final game in the PS3 trilogy. Yet, when Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception came out it ...

This month is my “Month of Uncharted” and I’ve mostly been playing through Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection; a series of remasters of the original Uncharted trilogy released on PS3 but now remade into 1080p and 60fps on PS4. Whi...

When Naughty Dog released the follow-up to Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune it was immediately met with critical acclaim, and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves remains in the top ten lists of “Best Games…” for that generation of consoles. Consid...

The original Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune was released early in the PlayStation 3’s lifetime and the developer, Naughty Dog, were still getting to grips with the new and unusual hardware. I remember picking it up in 2010 along with its se...

My all-time favourite movie is Apocalypse Now, the *true* magnum opus of Francis Ford Coppola; yeah, yeah, The Godfather is great too. I remember picking it up on VHS when I was younger and watching it on my 21” CRT screen. That TV was an...

As you may or may not know, this year I have been trying to theme each month of videogame playing, so far covering series such as Zelda, 'Souls, Final Fantasy, Witcher, Metal Gear and now it's time for another new topic. Since most other ne...

Concluding my series of short retrospectives concerning the Metal Gear games is a look at one of the more divisive entries in the series, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, exclusive to the Sony PlayStation 3. Kojima is on record for...

October 2015:This month sees the release of Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, a 1080p 60fps remaster of the three Naughty Dog games originally released on the PlayStation 3, but now lovingly re-released onto PS4 and we're excited righ...

Another year and another EGX come and gone. For those of us in the UK this is often the only videogame expo we can ever get to and it's great to have such a large and exciting show on our doorstep. Despite not having anything new released h...

I have distinct memories of picking up Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater upon its release on PlayStation 2, with the media whipped into the same frenzy currently surrounding the fifth entry in this long-running series, and with hype levels a...

A couple of days ago I finished playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and it’s taken me a bit of time to stop and consider what I thought of it, and where I’d place it amongst the other games in the series. You see, I&r...

The first Metal Gear Solid game has a really good ending that concludes much of the story (the "Shadow Moses Incident") nicely, while also setting up a sequel by having some unresolved plotlines and a massive 'WTF!' moment after the main c...

It took me a long time to love Metal Gear Solid. Back when I purchased my first Sony PlayStation I couldn’t really appreciate the slower-paced stealthy gameplay and found the whole thing to be much too difficult for my impatient youn...

I’ve had August off from my themed gaming months of 2015, once I finished The Witcher III: Wild Hunt I’ve had a busy schedule and a trip to Japan, with the only games I’ve squeezed in the meantime being shorter affairs li...

Lately I’ve been in the mood to play a so called “walking simulator”, something like Ether One, but I tried that game and found it to be an ugly and empty experience (I might revisit it again but it’s unlikely). Rec...

After a somewhat stagnant 2014, where much of the games I was looking forward to were pushed back, 2015 has been a killer-year for videogames so far, at least for me.  Behemoths like Bloodborne and The Witcher III: Wild Hunt had been ...

Over the last few years there has been a real backlash over buying videogames at the time of release, as well as a greater and more aggressive movement against pre-ordering games in general, both from local stores and online retailers. I t...

I remember being outraged, back when Never Alone (or Kisima Innitchuna) was originally released, by the review posted on Eurogamer, and not necessarily because they gave the game an unprecedented 10/10 that I just couldn’t believe fo...

Well, it ended up running over a bit, but this post concludes my “Witcher Month” that actually started over a month ago way back in June!! Earlier today I *finally* finished playing The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, which is now an a...

I’m now over 80 hours (EDIT: actually 120 hours now!) into The Witcher III: Wild Hunt and, at a guess, maybe half way through although I’m not sure. When I started my ‘Witcher Month’ over June and July I honestly th...

After the relatively sedate Blood of Elves, Time of Contempt kicks the events of the Witcher Saga up a notch! This second book in the core saga is once again translated by David French, who also translated Sword of Destiny, and who I don&r...

Today I took a break from playing The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, which is a contender for my game of the year so far, and played through one of my favourite games of all time; Journey, lovingly remastered on PS4. This is a straight up 1080p 6...

When I first played CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher roleplaying game I had come straight off the back of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, an open-world behemoth that remains to this day one of the best videogames I’ve ever played. ...

(Presented below is a guest review by my *awesome* wife for Life is Strange that she wrote for her own blog – the original can be found here – which usually focusses on book reviews and the writing process (she is currently writ...