Editorials

Japan has a long and storied history in the video game industry. Although the first video games didn’t come from Japan (Tennis for Two was designed and built in New York), it was Japanese companies who refined and perfected the video game art form throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Classic consoles like the NES, Sega

Quest and adventure games are alive and kicking. While timeless classics never seize to amaze, virtual and augmented reality tech creates a more immersive gaming experience. Quest & Adventure Games: Old Gold and the Bright Future Foretold Puzzlers, point-and-click adventures, and exploration games hold a special place in players’ hearts. They pull you in with enthralling

Sometimes there’s just no beating the classics. New games may shock and astound us with increasingly fancy graphics and features, but there’s a simple pleasure in revisiting the games of yesteryear, in going back to a simpler time before online multiplayer and loot box controversies. Of course, the optimal way to do this is to

Studies have suggested that human beings need other human beings around them in order to function properly. We are social animals, after all, and being lonely for lengthy periods of time has been linked to health complications and psychological problems. Put simply, we just need others to make our lives better. The presence of other

When Red Dead Redemption was released way back in 2010, it was an instant classic. Transposing the free-form open-world formula pioneered by the 3D Grand Theft Auto games to a Wild West setting proved to be inspired, as did replacing that series’ traditional madcap crime capering with a surprisingly sombre and heartfelt tale of, well,

Did you know it’s been 9 years since the advent of Codemasters’ F1 series? That’s right – this series has been chugging along since way back in 2009, when British company Sumo Digital created F1 2009 for the Wii and PSP, of all platforms. Fastforward to 2018, and the F1 series has gone from strength

As a gamer, your setup is a collection of your most prized possessions. Your TV, sound system and even your seating arrangement are all essential to the way you engage with the medium. Playing games on other people’s displays and in other people’s houses can be a bit of an alienating experience for this very

In this world of constant streaming and marathon gaming sessions, gamers’ eyes are taking more of a battering than they ever have. Even if you don’t normally need glasses, you might not be aware of the potential damage staring at your monitor could be doing. Simply put, that lengthy Overwatch or League of Legends session

After a sacrilegious hiatus of thirteen years, the TimeSplitters franchise could be set to make a long-awaited and warm-welcomed return. Koch Media, a THQ Nordic-owned company, announced they had acquired the rights to the infamous arcade shooter franchise just a few days ago. The TimeSplitters franchise, originally created by Free Radical Design (later known as

Many sci-fi visions of the future included voice-controlled devices of some sort. Whether the plucky protagonists were ordering the lights to be dimmed or telling laser turrets to fire on the enemy spaceship, voice control was an integral part of what we thought the future would look like a few years back. Now, it seems,

Most games are almost all about the characters. While things like plot and landscape certainly play a role in the success of a game, characters are the foundation. All 3D characters start as an idea, then they’re transformed into 3D models. From there, you’ll add things like texture and materials to make them begin to

Nowadays many people are worried about the amount of hours they lose in social networks when they should be working. It is the so-called procrastination, dealing with irrelevant things and leaving the truly important tasks for later. But in reality these distractions in front of the PC started in the past, before Zuckerberg launched Facebook