Sonic vs Mario – the enduring battle to tame hot, nasty, bad-ass speed
“I am a passenger, And I ride and I ride, I ride through the city’s backside, I see the stars come out of the sky, Yeah, they’re bright in a […]
Category Archives: Features
Rick, Morty, licenced games and post-VR toilet confusion
VR at its most grandiose is seeks to change our very perception of reality on a fundamental level. At its worst, the technology wants you to swing a piece of plastic around and pretend you are a Jedi – there is a fine line separating these outcomes.
The ties that bind – Intimacy and isolation in Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
By Neil Merrett Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime – released on Playstation 4 in 2015, Asteroid Base Gaming, during its tumultuous youth and teenage years, was often written off as an […]
The average gamer – a statistical approach to the modern American
Although long associated with isolated teens sat in bedrooms, new findings from US find that women aged 18 years and older represent a larger proportion of regular gamers than males under the age of 18.
Feature: Tom Clancy’s South American mini-bus adventure and the fun of a good warzone
Wildlands open world combat offers the player not so much warfare, but a playground to enjoy. It may nonetheless tell us a lot about heroism and military bluster when far away from home and with a whole country that is not your own to “save”.
Nintendo Switch time baby!!! – A live Squareblind experience
By Neil Merrett and Wormatron In a relatively short space of time since its unveiling late last year, Nintendo has released its latest console, the Switch, on to an uncertain […]
Feature: Bunnylords and balletic bullet blasts – the pleasure and horrors of videogame violence
We consider the almost balletic brutality of Not A Hero on ps4, XBox One and Steam and whether retro games are immune from being ‘too violent’.
