Category Archives: Video Games

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Review

Posted on January 14, 2025 by JC

In 2014, a new Swedish studio called MachineGames released a new entry in the Wolfenstein series titled Wolfenstein: The New Order and it was fantastic. Unfortunately, after a decent standalone expansion, they followed up with two very poor sequels and … Continue reading →

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The Games of 2024

Posted on January 7, 2025 by JC

It was always going to be hard to top 2023 but 2024 didn’t even come close in my opinion. Naturally, I don’t play everything that comes out but there also wasn’t a lot I was really interested in. Probably the … Continue reading →

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Jagged Alliance 2 Book Review

Posted on November 30, 2024 by JC

Jagged Alliance 2 by Darius Kazemi, Boss Fight Books, August 25th, 2014 This is a book I had long been interested in but held off buying despite it being dedicated to one of my favourite games of all time. It … Continue reading →

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Borderlands: A Barren Wasteland

Posted on November 24, 2024 by JC

I have rather fond memories of the original Borderlands which released in 2009. I got a copy for PlayStation 3 along with a small group of friends and a number of fun multiplayer sessions followed for some months afterwards. It … Continue reading →

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The Baffling Design of Sonic Superstars

Posted on October 30, 2024 by JC

Sonic Superstars was one of the games I was interested in last year but decided to give a miss after seeing some of the more critical (read: negative) reviews. It also just released in a year of big releases and … Continue reading →

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Differing Methods: Same Goal

Posted on October 24, 2024 by JC

I have mentioned elsewhere the short memory of the media cycle and even society in general. It is no surprise then that it is also evident in the much less important aspects of our lives such as popular culture. This … Continue reading →

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Gears 5: An Unadmitted Failure

Posted on September 15, 2024 by JC

It has now been five years since the release of Gears 5 which I reviewed a few months after release here. Although acknowledging that the visual design and gameplay was very good, I was critical of the narrative direction the … Continue reading →

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The Last Tomb Raider

Posted on August 20, 2024 by JC

After recently replaying Crystal Dynamic’s 2013 Tomb Raider reboot, I became interested in replaying the two original titles they developed after they replaced Core Design. The first game they developed was Tomb Raider: Legend which was developed on a completely … Continue reading →

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Going Deeper with BioShock

Posted on July 16, 2024 by JC

BioShock was released in August 2007 on PC, Xbox 360 and later PlayStation 3. While this was a few years into the console generation, it was one of the games that really defined it; as indeed did a number of … Continue reading →

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Revisiting Arkham, Raiding Tombs and a trip through Mordor

Posted on July 8, 2024 by JC

As I just recently had the first big computer upgrade in almost a decade, I wanted to see how some games I’d previously played at release on low or medium settings looked today when on max settings. So I reinstalled … Continue reading →

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