OPINION PIECES

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Probably a pretty good way to describe Ryse: Son of Rome in a sentence. The game is a basic God of War clone with repetitive and simple combat. There is no real enemy variation, only one set of weapons and a couple of boss fights. There are a few turret defence ...

Its been just over a week since Destiny’s House of Wolves expansion came out, and since then people have beaten the endgame content enough to be able to just melt the endgame boss within minutes, emerged victorious from the most grueling PvP mode undefeated, and reach the level cap within days. On paper, this might seem like theres just no ...

I can understand if this seems a little preemptive; there aren’t even any virtual reality headsets available commercially at the moment. So, wondering what will come next for VR seems a little hasty, especially if they haven’t even happened yet. For that, we will probably be waiting until sometime next year for VR headsets to actually take off among consumers. I wouldn’t ...

In what appears to be a customary routine with every new game release, I find myself having to attempt to address and dispel seemingly absurd claims regarding the nature of The Witcher 3’s content. CD Project Red, developers of this gorgeous, new role-playing epic, received some unexpected flak from Polygon, where journalist and editor Arthur Gies criticized the game for allegedly ...

The incomparable Jessica Conditt, senior reporter at Engadget, recently put up an article about eSports, and their merit as sports. This has been a debate that’s raged on since the dawn of eSports, and everyone seems to have an opinion. In her article, Jessica likens hockey to a real-life game of League of Legends, with players all having designated positions and ...

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was released May 19th and possibly because of all the hype I made sure to preorder it. What ever it was, the game looked good and I wanted it. I’m a huge fan of games like Dragon Age and Skyrim, and have followed DA from Origins and Elder Scrolls from Morrowind. I love these types ...

Some games get unfairly slated by critics at the time of their release, with reviewers focusing more on technical deficiencies rather than humour, story-telling and soul. A game like Deadly Premonition which was bashed in the media at its time of original release for Xbox 360 is a prime example. The game was a clunky mess, but had a story ...

After many years, The Witcher 3 is finally upon us. At the time of writing, I’ve just finished The Witcher 2 for the first time, and The Witcher 3 has just become available. While I eagerly await the download of what many are already hailing as one of the best RPG’s of all time, a question came to mind: Why ...

You may be familiar with the console wars in which the fans of three factions; Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, battle it out on discussion boards and comment sections, determined to prove why their console is better than the other. Until very recently there has been a faction mostly overlooked, which is actually showing its face more commonly in these discussions, and ...

As E3 grows ever-closer, the eternal conflict between cynical games journalists and PR specialists wages on. The former warning us against the dangers of getting excited for unreleased products, and the latter trying to get us all to board the hype train for these new releases, keeping the community buzzing. While hype can, in fact, be dangerous to the consumers, it’s ...