Last year was a very strange year for video games. After much uncertainty and weariness as to whether the Playstation 4 and Xbox One would be a success or not, 2015 saw the two of them come in to th...
For Club Trope-icana this week, following the sense of nostalgia I felt over the story of the iconic first level of Spyro the Dragon being remade using the Unreal 4 engine, I decided to not look at a ...
Pokémon has spawned numerous spin-off titles in the twenty years since it first took the world by storm, from roguelikes to war games to on-rails photography, but the series’ latest offering, Detec...
If you were ever to ask me the exact moment I became a gamer, I’d tell you it was at the young, impressionable age of nine, as I stared in sheer adoration at the picture of a gun-toting Velociraptor...
It is completely undeniable that 2016 is going to be a huge year for gaming. Future trends like Virtual Reality, Esports, and Augmented Reality are finally starting to come to mainstream fruition, and...
As a child, I grew up playing two game franchises, both of which are engrained into my childhood memories. One of these, involving a pistol-wielding relic-hunting young woman, has delved fully into th...
At last, we can finally get off Sakurai’s wild ride. As of February 4th, the final two pieces of downloadable content for Super Smash Brothers for Wii U and 3DS have been released to much fanfare. F...
Far Cry: Primal Far Cry goes prehistoric meaning there won’t be any be any modern means of transportation nor firearms. Instead you will have to get in touch with nature, use primitive weapons and c...
It’s certainly a case of ‘New Year, New Me’ for our beloved Hideo Kojima, who has finally cast away the tyranny of his oppressive owners, Konami; a company who, for some reason, see no issue in ...
Ollie Burton While I am unable to tout myself as a ‘completionist’ gamer by any means, there are certain titles from my childhood from which I enjoy mercilessly grinding every last drop of nostalg...
I’m not going to lie; the Borderlands games were a struggle to get through, especially the first one. Whilst they were extremely fun and gratuitous, especially when playing with friends, they were v...
The NES gave us some of Nintendo's most well-known franchises, and the petite boxer in green is no exception. Punch-Out!! (shouting the title is optional) was the first of the series to appear on a ho...
There are quite a few notable games releasing in the coming weeks but I am still confident that Bloodborne, released way back in March, is one of the year’s best games. Bloodborne comes from the bea...
5. Fallout 3 (Australia) So, throughout this list of banned games you’re going to hear about one country in particular on several occasions. Our friends over in the southern pacific just like a good...
As I recall back to the halcyon days of 2009 when Call of Duty wasn’t just the same copy-and-paste first person shooter every year, we all remember the ending of Modern Warfare 2, where Soap pulled ...
When it comes to the Super Nintendo’s extensive library of classics like Super Mario World, A Link to the Past and Super Metroid, there is one true gem which stands out against the rest, Donkey Kong...
The Steam Machine: the love child of PCs and consoles. Will this finally bring an end to the online war that has raged on for decades? The Steam Machine (AKA Steam box) is Valve’s attempt to create ...
When I was a bairn, at the ripe old age of 9, my dad came and picked me up and took me to see Revenge of the Sith. Before that, he let me go to Toys R Us to pick a new game for the Xbox. What a day, r...