Yooka Laylee Ex-Rare developers, now part of Playtonic Studios, recently revealed their spiritual successor to Banjo Kazooie. This was the chameleon and bat duo Yooka-Laylee. Straight away for many it was love at first sight. This was proven by 73,206 backers that pledged £2,090,104 to help bring this project to life. Now with the studio having smashed all…

Super Mario It bothers me that everyone wants an HD remake of Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2. We just had those, what’s the rush? You slide those games into either your Wii or Wii U and they still look great! They don’t even run in native 1080p but they look like they do! If…

Final Fantasy XIV With the extremely successful launch of its first expansion, Heavensward, in the rear view mirror, Final Fantasy XIV has become one of the fastest growing MMO subscriber bases in the current era of MMO's today. Square Enix proudly announced that they have surpassed two million active subscriptions and are likely well on…

XCOM 2 I must confess that I’m a huge fanboy of games that use permadeath, especially the strategic ones, like XCOM or the Fire Emblem series. I think it is not needed to say that I’m really anxious about their next installments, Fire Emblem: Fates and XCOM 2, respectively. Although both of them are showing great…

Early Access Opinions are usually mixed when it comes to Early Access games and the truth is that some of the games that make the Early Access step offer so little in terms of content or the pace at which developers bring in new content and features that the entire concept suffers. However, not all…

For Honour There is no doubt that this year’s E3 was full of truly incredible games but there is one in particular that not only can I not wait to play but should stand as a shining example for future AAA titles. For Honour is a third-person competitive melee based game with an innovative new style…

Witcher 3 Like lots of people, much of my free time nowadays is spent playing through the giant-sized Witcher 3; a game that’s as fun to play as it is pretty to look at. And as my journey as Geralt of Rivia continues down its dark, twisting, rain soaked path, I continue to be amazed…

Fallout Shelter You may have noticed that Fallout Shelter, Bethesda's free-to-play mobile offering where you manage an underground Vault and its dwellers, has been doing rather well lately. It has stormed the iOS App Store charts in many countries, making headlines for knocking mobile legends like Candy Crush off of the top spots. I have been playing Fallout Shelter since…

E3 2015 From fifteen-year-old reboots to unexpected remakes to little red dolls made of yarn, E3 2015 has been nothing short of surprising. Everyone boards the annual hype train as dozens of new games rear their heads at one of the biggest conventions around.  Everyone is excited, that much is certain, but what excites each individual person most…

Masterplan Picture this: You and your crew are driving through the wet and dreary streets of an unknown city in some rust bucket of a van. So are you thinking, what is the masterplan? On your last heist you picked up an advertisement for a minimart bragging that their prices were so low, you’d end…