Cameron Honey-Swain
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The date was the 6th of September 2017. I set up the transfer of my characters from Bungie’s first Destiny title to the greatly anticipated Destiny 2. We had been warned that we would not be keeping any of our items in the new game, but it couldn’t prepare you for the feeling of loss when years of raid gear and Exotic weapons were torn away from you. Since the launch of Destiny 2, the threat of this happening again has loomed over players. What if all your hard work went out the door agai...
I’ve been playing Destiny since the Alpha dropped back in 2014, since then my husband, friends and I have been avid fans. We’ve been there since the start and while being a Destiny fan comes with a love-hate relationship with the game you’d be hard pressed to find a player who isn’t also a staunch defender of the space fantasy drama. With the launch of its sequel Destiny 2 fans were disheartened to learn that while we were going to bigger and more exciting locations we would need to l...
It takes just a beat. I stop in my tracks and I look around the room. I know I’ve been here moments ago but the hallway I just walked through can’t have looped back like that. Wait, didn’t I exit through the door I just entered? Who was that janitor, was he even real? Was that lift always there? This all happens within minutes of starting Remedy Entertainment’s newest release, Control, and it sets the tone for the rest of your time in this reality bending romp through the FBC, the Fed...
Devil May Cry first leapt on to the gaming scene 19 years ago. After Capcom rebranded the concept from a Resident Evil sequel to a brand new IP it quickly became a pinnacle moment in action gaming. Fast paced and bombastic combat, it became the father of an action sub genre of its own.
If you know me, you know I detest and often protest against the use of “Soulslike” or “Soulsborne” as a descriptor of a genre. Becoming a catch all phrase for a game with difficult combat meant that people used it for basically anything that presented even the slightest challenge. Unfortunately though I think I am going to have to eat my words and go back on my stance on this. The Dark Souls games changed gaming and since then have inspired many games. With an industry that is being o...
Battlefield is an interesting beast. One of the big names in online first person shooters it is perpetually at odds with its competition, not of its own accord but usually by rabid fan bases that have drawn a line in the sand. As such it is never granted the opportunity to exist as its own entity; always compared even when it doesn’t want to be. This has resulted in Battlefield attempting to find ways to set itself apart from the rest of the war shooters that exist, and for the most part, t...
Assassin’s Creed has been a series that has become a cornerstone in modern gaming. After a smash hit release it went from being a hot ticket item to a little bit of a joke with yearly releases that felt hollow and more like cash grabs than any kind of advancement. It came as a shock then when the team at Ubisoft decided to take a break and return to the series with a revamped approach to the time travelling assassin simulation with Assassin’s Creed Origins. When it was announced a follow ...
In an interview with TIME in 2015, Stan Lee revealed that his publisher thought his new creation Spider-Man was the “worst idea he’d ever had”. No one liked spiders, teenagers should only be sidekicks, and no one wanted a hero with real world problems. Fast forward 56 years and Spider-Man, one of the most recognisable super heroes ever, returns to gaming in Marvel’s Spider-Man from Insomniac Games — and gosh does this team know how to do our favourite web slinger right.
The 2D platforming puzzler has been a staple of the gaming world longer then I’ve been alive, and considering that at my age I’ve already run out of new ideas I can’t believe that the genre would have anything new to offer. Run left to right, jump and maybe use an ability, done, I’ve just made a side scroller. Then along comes Semblance and with one tweaked constant in gaming, the solidity and rigidity of the levels, it proves that side scrollers still got it.
There is a lot to love with tactical gameplay. Measuring the playing field, choosing your party and taking your time to pick apart the enemy in the most efficient way. With only a few titles that fill that in the AAA industry, fans of the genre find themselves turning to the world of indie titles to quench their thirst. The latest title looking to fill that gap is AurumDust’s Ash of Gods: Redemption.