[Note: I've only seen 3 sites report this in spite of it being quite serious on the gaming news-o-meter, so I'm posting it here in the hopes that Destructoid covers it. And if they don't, I will *ominous facial expression*] Never. Pre. Orde...

There are very few games with morality systems, in spite of the fact that almost everything done in a videogame will have ethical consequences. My running into Riften and slaughtering the inhabitants is most definitely a moral action, kill...

You certainly didn’t need to be a grumpy old cynic to question Microsoft’s promise of a free operating system. It turns out that they really were being honest about that; Windows 10 is absolutely 100% free. The stuff that&rsquo...

The other day I wrote this blog about crafting, and used SWG as an example. When writing that I realised that SWG, that old Star Wars MMO that splits opinion like a knife-edge, had an emulator. As a massive fan of Star Wars, I couldn&rsquo...

This image terrifies me. Ah, crafting: the process of taking some bits and pieces, chucking them on a workbench, and turning them into one bigger bit. Note that this is not an analysis of building mechanics – though I can direct you ...

Satisfaction is something most games try to create. And a lot of them fail. Such moments tend to be either too easy to accomplish, such as defeating Alduin in Skyrim, or they do not leave the player time to appreciate their work. But somet...

Some minor spoilers for SWTOR lie within. Lately, I have been playing Skyrim and Elite Dangerous. In both, I find myself confronted with a problem. There are many occasions where I wish to express ambivalence - I want to tell the pesky mis...

Ah, yes… Unity, that free little game engine that has opened up game development to any Tom, Dick and Harry that wants to have shot at making the next Call of Duty. Apparently, Unity has an image problem. Snobbery says I, and hopefu...

So far 2015 has been a great year for gaming; so many good games have come out. GTA V came to PC and Valve finally follows the law on digital refunds thus giving gamers a shred of power against bad developers. A lot of great early access g...

As one of those scruffy little oiks known as ‘a student’, research is damned important. Mostly because good research will hopefully give me some juicy A grades come 4 weeks’ time (that soon!?) but also because it has valu...

Bioware is certainly one of gaming's heavyweights. Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, Baulder's Gate, Dragon Age. These are things that define Bioware, but arguably it is equally defined by DLC, greed, and most of all - losing its s...

Spoilers for Homeworld 1 within. Listen to this as you read: I want to love Homeworld. I want to declare that the RTS genre is just done, and has reached perfection. I want to say that a space odyssey is now a redundant plot, beatable only...

So today I had an argument on the internet… about GamerGate. First a little bit of context: I don't usually pick fights on the internet and I have never been nor ever will be labeling myself as GG or anti-GG at any point because fuc...

One month ago Elite: Dangerous got an update called Powerplay. It introduced galactic Powers, 10 of them, each holding control of regions of space that lend it Command Capital, the arbitrary unit of influence. CC is brought in by worlds th...

Total War is going fantasy, and that has a lot of people excited as of late. I, however, don't give a toss about fantasy - I'd rather play Attila. You probably should give it a go, but a lot of the strategy fans among you may have not beca...

Recently I tried to play Knights of the Old Republic. My PC said no. I then tried to play Imperium II. My PC said no. I tried to play Battlefront II. The PC said yes, but only if I plug something into the microphone port – and I mean...

This may seem confusing. For many, citybuilding games are primarily about aesthetics – taking the time to meticulously lay out their settlement with parks, paths and pretty buildings. On the other hand, metrics tend to be the be...

I was playing Skyrim recently, having modded it to hell (and well beyond what Windows 8.1 will tolerate), and noticed just how lackluster the archery is. Great for stealth, a damp squib for anything else. I went in search of Chivalry ...

Batman is so depressed in this screenshot that he's even dragging the framerate down. Steam’s refund system will be put to the test today. Arkham Knight, by most accounts (65% of accounts going by Steam reviews at the time of wr...

Alas the Steam Sale is about to end. Gamer’s Christmas will return next year, all things considered I found this year to be disappointing. I only bought one thing – Homeworld Remastered, a write up of which I am currently ...

The first open world game was Elite. Released in 1984 it presented a galaxy full of choice, but heavily reliant on imagination, capturing its audience whilst being crude. By 2003, games like Morrowind had advanced the genre significan...

So Valve, that lovely company that gives us Summer Sales and Portal has been philanthropic once again and given us the gift of refunds! That’s right – Valve has now thrown open the gates of kindness and offered us somethin...

Damnit Cities: Skylines! You almost cost me a mark. Today I sat a Statistics exam, Statistics 1 for the exam board Edexcel in the UK. I knocked it out of the park, but there was this one little question that bugged me for the time I h...

So, Valve has finally dragged its arse into line with international law and offered refunds for purchased games. But only on the condition that it you have played fewer than two hours. This is great… kinda. As with everything V...

Not Lamar. GTA Online has a big problem with hackers. A BIG problem. People who know the inner workings of GTA could be good people. Modders, we tend to call them. Others, the hackers, are just out to be a dick and make you suffer. Be...

If only all holidays seemed that interesting. But nope, I'm visiting relatives. And as a teenager, there is very little to do. I am not young enough to find the mere act of going on holiday thrilling in itself, nor am I old enough to ...

Recently I posted a piece on gibbons amongst men, the idiot players that the rest of us have reason to lambast and simply be embarrassed by. It is time to balance that out with a look at some of the best sorts of player, those that ar...

Hello and welcome to a nifty little two-part thingymajig (technical term I assure you) on two classes of player. After a few too many heists gone wrong I was angry, and vented that fustration onto a page. That is where the following a...

The following blog veers toward passionate personal opinion. The balanced critique I usually try to write is not to be found here. You have been warned. You should still read it though. PR is not an enviable job. You have to stand in ...

Sorry for slightly spamming the community space, but there's neurons a-firing and there's a keyboard in front of me. So, as you will inevitably know by now, Skyrim just allowed modders to sell their mods. Some people don't see anythin...