Monopoly, the long way around: Do digital boardgames work?
Despite its century-old origins, Monopoly is a surprisingly fresh online and family multiplayer game. That may well continue to be the case for the next 100 years and beyond.
Category Archives: Review
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics – the ongoing 20 year search to relive Vandal Hearts
Compared to other turn-based strategy games such as Vandal Hearts, Dark Crystal is a much messier and complex game to play through.
Death Stranding early impressions – why do we fall?
Videogames can often surprise when focusing on the everyday things that humans are capable of taking for granted be it comfort, the ground below us, or the very basic concept of staying on our feet and keeping on moving.
Ring-Fit Adventure: Nintendo seeks to make you feel the gaming grind
By Neil Merrett Ring Fit Adventure, released on Nintendo Switch in 2019, published by Nintendo Nintendo’s latest experiment with motion controls creates a turn-based fantasy adventure that takes a different […]
Red Rock & Roll: An Ode to surviving Surviving Mars
Surviving Mars is, at its heart, a game about planning for the worst and overcoming a literal planet load of problems. But what happens to the player’s view on the value of life when you chose to turbo charge the game’s difficulty with alcoholic refugees from earth with very little practical skills?
Celeste: We all have our mountains to climb
It is possible to describe Celeste as both an old school platformer where you jump A LOT, and a more modern, intimate game about facing up to and embracing the unlikely sources of companionship and support required when facing up to personal hang ups and anxieties.
