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As with any year in the world's biggest and youngest entertainment industry 2021 was a mess. With soaring highs, crushing lows and creamy middles the state of the video games industry this year held surprises, both positive and negative,…

I wish things were different. I wish I could play games that weren't built by the labour of burnt-out, broken people. I wish that the CEOs, Presidents and Directors of some of the largest game studios in the world weren't abusive…

In early summer 2020 a wave of sexual harassment and misconduct accusations hit the French developer and publisher Ubisoft. As June gave way to July gave way to August leading figures in the company including but not limited to Creative…

It's hard to find a game these days that doesn't promise tonnes of loot or that doesn't require a constant internet connection. Back in 2009 no games other than those dedicated to online multiplayer required a constant internet connection.…

There are no bad games anymore, only games with bad parts that never add up to a wholly good or bad experience. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint is one such game. The latest in Ubisoft's series of re-skinned open world games Breakpoint feels like…

A bird flies overhead. You listen intently to the clattering sound of your footsteps and the increasingly louder annoyed mutterings of the soldiers hot on your tail. You brace yourself for the jump to come. Rolling and dodging your way…

I've put my time into the various loot based shooters (looter-shooters? shlooters?) out there. I've given The Division, Destiny and even Destiny 2 all the time I thought they deserved and I've come to one conclusion: I don't like loot based…

Time trials. Steep ascents. Steeper drops. Rolling boulders. None of these things agree with me but I keep coming back to Trials Rising. The Trials series is nearly two decades old since Finnish studio RedLynx published Trials in 2000.…

EA took over as custodians of the Star Wars video game franchise over five years ago now; depending on the exact wording of the agreement, their ten-year deal either started with the release of the Star Wars Battlefront in 2015 or with the…

Ubisoft has been accused both justly and unjustly of making the same game over and over again. Many of their longest running series like Assassin's Creed or Far Cry have spent the last decade or so struggling to reconcile realistic or…