Gaming
Ara: History Untold is an addictive and messy strategy game
★★★ | Very civilized
Final Fantasy XIV
Interview: Naoki Yoshida wants to take players on a journey
I spoke with Naoki Yoshida about Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail and where the story goes after The End.
Gamescom
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 makes you feel small
Gamescom 2024: I got a chance to play the new Space Marine game before launch.
Gaming
Tekken 8 is the return of the king
★★★★ | KO
Gaming
For the love of the game – how Final Fantasy XIV conquered the world - and me
I visited the Final Fantasy Fan Festival in London and came away with a newfound love for the series.
Gaming
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is hugely ambitious, and deeply flawed
★★★ | The Force is meh in this one
Gaming
Dead Island 2 is like a high school reunion – for better and for worse
★★★ | California is not an island
Gaming
Hitman: Freelancer is a superlative expansion of the franchise
★★★★ | Contract thriller
Nintendo
Sifu mistakes difficulty for pleasure
During the filming of Marathon Man, Dustin Hoffman refused to sleep, bathe, or eat to get into the exhausted mindset of his character. Watching from the sidelines, Laurence Olivier remarked: “My dear boy, why don’t you try acting? It’s much easier.” In an interview with GamingBolt, Félix Garczynski,
Hell Architect
2021 Gaming Catch-Up
It wouldn’t be an understatement to say that 2021 was a busy year. Even with COVID lockdowns continuing in Finland – often with no rhyme or reason – I somehow managed to cover almost as much as in a pre-COVID year. But, as always, some things slip between the cracks. So
Halo
Halo Infinite is messy, ambitious, and better than you'd expect
(Halo Infinite is out on December 8th. The distributor provided a review code.) Halo is one of the Xbox’s most important and longest-running titles. An icon of system-selling blockbusters, it almost single-handedly carried the fledgling console into the big leagues. Over the years, its star diminished some, and the
Back 4 Blood
Back 4 Blood is good until it isn't
Spinning off from the beloved (but undoubtedly aged) Left 4 Dead series, Back 4 Blood (see what they did there?) is a nostalgic effort in reanimating a straggling franchise. Unlike many others who try the same, only ending up in a ghoulish Weekend at Bernie’s type of deal, B4B