Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond takes an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach to VR game design, throwing you into European WW2 combat scene after European WW2 combat scene: parachuting behind enemy lines, manning an AA gun, clearing a Nazi train, riding shotgun in a motorcycle, storming Omaha beach. It all sounds more exciting than it actually is. […]
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The Zadak Spark AIO is the company’s first CPU cooler. And though Zadak probably isn’t a name many will be familiar with, don’t read too much into that: New doesn’t mean bad. Zadak is a relatively small operation that has a clear passion for quality, as anyone who has used its RAM will testify to. […]
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We’ve all fantasised about getting away from it all, haven’t we? Dropping out of the daily grind, the forced small talk and the pressures of civilised living; simply escaping with our favourite person and carving out our own space in the universe. The difference with Yu and Kay is that they’ve actually gone and done […]
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Would you classify this game’s protagonists as ‘cute’, or ‘a horrific monstrosity that defiles the very concept of nature’? I think I’ll go with ‘both’. It’s still fashionable to put in a claim of cognitive dissonance, after all. I’m not ashamed to say (perhaps I should be) that, when I first saw this double-headed… thing, […]
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With all of the frantic shooter action, not to mention countless other remasters that have landed on console and PC over the past few months, playing the soon to be released Unto the End was a breath of fresh air. The action/platformer/survival game is a different take on the 2D combat adventure. It’s unlike anything […]
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First-person adventure games are often almost like movies. They love to focus on story and characters, but these are typically major challenges for obvious reasons. You’ll likely know exactly where the plot of Call of the Sea plot is headed within the first hour or so, as its narrative focus has been explored to death […]
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You’d be forgiven for being sick of the phrase ‘it’s like Dark Souls’, but… Chronos is like Dark Souls. A bit. The similarities are clear in the combat and audio design, but Chronos treats the high frequency of death differently than the Souls games, with a cool, though under-utilised, ageing system and less punishment. Indeed, […]
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Friends aren’t always on the same page, yet your differences make your friendship exciting. In that way, friendship is a lot like a double-sided sausage dog. The double-sided sausage dog is a walking, barking disaster. Yet together, its two halves can solve the toughest of puzzles. Perhaps not very quickly nor efficiently, but certainly in […]
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In the west, the Mystery Dungeon series is probably best known for its affiliation with Pokémon. However, Japanese developer Spike Chunsoft has been responsible for a number of games in the franchise released long before Nintendo got involved. The first of which was Shiren the Wanderer. First debuting in 1995, Shiren the Wanderer was a […]
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Mars is just a boring dead ball of rust-colored dust. That just will not do. We have to turn it into something useful, something humans could live on. That’s precisely what you do in Per Aspera. In Per Aspera, Mars is already littered with detritus of past human attempts to take a foothold on the […]
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Shadowlands is one of World of Warcraft’s most ambitious expansions. There are times where I feel a little overwhelmed by all of its complex, interlocking progression systems. When I’m not chipping away at expanding my Covenant’s Sanctum (basically my superhero HQ), I’m exploring its dark and dangerous new endgame zone or climbing the endless floors […]
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The struggle between objectivity and sentimentality is even more relevant in today’s turbulent news cycle than it’s been in recent times. Is it truly better to seek out truth or comfort? Much like reality, Twin Mirror offers no easy answers. The trails we blaze may leave brush fires in our wake that threaten to grow and […]
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The desire to play a game that does justice to fighter jets is always matched by the unwillingness to import a full HOTAS setup from Belarus. Are there intermediate games one can enjoy? No, not really. But when it comes to arcade gen 4 fighter action, there’s Project Wingman. The game is set on our […]
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Designed for high-end audio for gaming with Sennheiser co-branding, the EPOS GSX 300 External Sound Card is designed to deliver 24-bit, 96 kHz virtual 7.1 surround sound to ordinary stereo headphones. If all you’re looking for is a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to use your existing 3.5mm stereo headphones for gaming on your computer, then the […]
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I loved Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Well, for the first twenty hours. Then I realized that most of the locations, side quests, and rewards were practically all lazily copy-pasted with minimal effort. I eventually got so bored I had to quit. When it was revealed that Ubisoft Quebec was working on another open-world Greek-inspired game, this time […]
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