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The MMGaming Awards – 2013
This is a post which usually comes around the first week of January, however I personally decided to postpone it for a little longer because there was one game which I had yet to play but knew I would...
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Jade Empire Retrospectacle – MAI HONOURS!
It's funny the things that the brain remembers given the correct prompting. Prior to my recent playthrough of the game I only remembered three things about Jade Empire, an RPG by Bioware released way...
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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm retrospectacle – The world heaves with my torment…
Hey everyone, my name is Sabor117, and I'm a WoW addict. You know, I was recently introduced to the very well written TV show The West Wing in which a character talks about alcoholism as being where a...
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Grand Theft Auto V review – At least we don’t have to go bowling…
What is there to say about Grand Theft Auto 5, by Rockstar Games, which has not been said already? Its release was a record-breaking one, making so much money so extremely quickly that the comparison...
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Cities in Motion 2 review – Also known as “Throwing Trams at the City Until...
Cities in Motion 2 is one of several Paradox Interactive releases from last year which slipped through the cracks at MMGaming. I have to admit to being intrigued by the title and looking it up,...
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Monochroma review – 50 Shades of Grey with a bit of red
Monochroma is the first title by Istanbul-based Nowhere Studios (thanks Wikipedia!) and despite it's humble origins, the developers had some fairly lofty goals for the game. On the Steam page, one of...
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Dead Space 3 review – Dead… SPAAAAAAACE!
This is an article I was putting off for a while because I was struggling to get to a stage where I felt I had done "enough" to produce a review. The definition of "enough" varies from game to game...
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The Wolf Among Us review – I’ll huff and I’ll puff
When it comes to writing reviews for an episodic game I learned my lesson from my attempt to review each individual episode of The Raven, despite differences in each episode, at the end of the day you...
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs review – What does the pig say?
This is the part where I usually give credit to the developers of Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and I had always planned to say “developed by Frictional Games in concert with The Chinese Room”. But you...
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My Thoughts On: Runers – I hunger for magic!
Runers by Let's Get Kraken Games is a top-down, indie, rogue-like adventure game, which makes it absolute nerd-bait because us folk love it when someone says "indie" or "rogue-like" or "permadeath"....
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Xenonauts review – Certainty of death, small chance of success, what are we...
Xenonauts by Goldhawk Interactive is billed as the "spiritual successor" for UFO: Enemy Unknown, also known as X-COM: UFO Defense from the early 90's (thanks Wikipedia!). I.e. back in the day when I...
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Lords of the Black Sun review – Civilisation in SPAAAAAACE!
Frankly it's about time that someone made a strategy game in space, one where you can control vast fleets of starships and conquer a vast array of systems and planets. A game where you can fight an...
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Among the Sleep review – Baby, baby, baby, AAAARGHH!
Among the Sleep, by Krillbite studios, is a game which had an exceptional amount of potential for sheer, unbridled terror. By taking the player out of the usual comfort zone of playing as a grown...
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The Walking Dead Season 2 review – I see too many dead people
The first season of The Walking Dead by Telltale Games (and yes I am well aware of how easy it is to mix that up with the TV series given that their use of the word "season") is easily one of my...
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Local Multiplayer editorial – Everyone should get Towerfall
Do you remember local multiplayer? Back when the Nazis were rampaging across Europe and the days when if you had suggested an "always online" experience you would have been laughed back to whatever...
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Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea DLC review – Constants and variables
The following article contains some spoilers for the end of Bioshock Infinite. Bioshock Infinite was unquestionably one of my favourite games of 2013 and remains every bit as excellent. It ought to be...
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Arkham Origins review – Learning to Dark Knight
So, you want to make an award winning video game series, or as they call it in Ubisoft and EA: "a cash cow"? Well, look no further than this simple guide which can get you there in the smallest of...
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter review – Dear Esther Plus
Of course, that's a rather unfair way to introduce any game by describing it as being similar to Dear Esther, because while there is much that The Vanishing of Ethan Carter does indeed share with Dear...
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Styx: Master of Shadows review – The only thief who glows in the dark
Styx *hurrkk* Master of Shadows published by Focus Home Interactive and developed by Cyanide Studios (who you might know because of Impire) is apparently a prequel to the game Of Orcs and Men, a game...
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The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings review – Because “Monster Hunter” was...
The Witcher, by CD Projekt Red, is probably the slightly nerdy and unsociable kid in the school of Western RPGs. While games like Skyrim might be the friendly jock, who everyone likes and is easily...
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