Gaming

Sims 4: A Simmer’s Experience

Now that The Sims 4 game is free for all to play, you may wonder what it’s like playing the game for many years,...

You Can Now Play Sims 4 For Free

The Sims 4 base game is now free as of the 18th of September 2022, as EA welcomes a new wave of simmers. The Sims,...

Getting Into The Video Game World – Ravina Sahota

Ravina has been hired by one of the most successful companies in the video game industry, UBISOFT. Responsible for some of the biggest titles in...

The Fashion Game?

In 2016 in New York, a Louis Vuitton model walked down the Spring Show catwalk presented as a character out of a virtual world....

Mortal Kombat The Movie: Delight Or Disaster?

They've done it again! Another live adaptation of a beloved video game franchise. Mortal Kombat is here, but is it worth it? As a...

Diary Of A New Twitch Streamer

My name is Joao Caralinda and I’m a Twitch streamer. At first I was never big on the idea of streaming on Twitch. Playing a...
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The State of ‘Next Generation’ Gaming

Ever since the 'next generation' of gaming was announced, gamers all over the world couldn't wait to get their hands on the future. But...

Away From Life, Away From Reality

The Center for Disaster Philanthropy has published a list of 17 distasters that have taken place this year - with COVID at the top...

The Christmas Public Games Awards 2020

Every year, The Games Awards light up in gamers' feeds. Just like the Oscars, they bring us gamers joy when we see the games...

The Covid-19 Story: Coming To An Entertainment Centre Near You

The Roman Empire, the Crusades, the Black Death, WWI and WWII have all been immortalised in movies, books, television shows and video games. And...

Is This The Start Of A VR Takeover?

Bust apart by COVID, video calls have done their best to bring us back together. They are easy to run, and everyone can social...

Paying For Streaming? Music Fans Can Learn From Online Gamers

Now that clubs are closed and concerts cancelled, Instagram Live is the place to be, packed with Q&As, live talent shows, prize give-aways at...

Let These Games Take Over Your Life

Rumours are circulating that the end of lockdown is in sight. We may not have reached the end, but this may be the beginning...

Gaming Is The New Normal

The video game industry has been growing fast. One of the biggest growth contributors is online competitive mode (multiplayer), which means millions of players...

Burning Down The Houseparty?

Twitter and Facebook are full of rumours that the Houseparty app is hacking people’s phones. Users posted to say that their Spotify, Netflix and...

#UltimateQuaranTeam: An Idea With Global Success

With football's governing bodies announcing no competitive fixtures will take place until the 30th April and the recent coronavirus crisis leading many to believe...

Happy Birthday, My Old Friend

Today (4 March 2020) is the twentieth anniversary of the Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2). The PS2 sold over 158 million units worldwide up to...

What The Flip!?

Samsung’s 2020 phone - the Galaxy Z Flip - is a throwback to those phones we remember from way back, like the 2005 Motorola Razr, only...

Marvelous Invasion

  https://vimeo.com/372729256 Marvelous is a Japanese game developing company, publisher and anime producer. Already big in Japan, it is now ready to move in on the...

Back To Basics For COD

Activision's top selling franchise Call of Duty Modern Warfare (COD) is back with a vengeance. I admit I had lost interest in the series...

Death Stranding: Too Real For Its Own Good?

Ever since Hideo Kojima left gaming company Konami to set up on his own, fans have been anxiously waiting to see what his next...

Ghost Recon Breakpoint: Not As Good As It looks

The new game from Ubisoft, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint (GRB) is the biggest talking point in the videogame world right now. Imagine: You and...

Metro Exodus: tense and eerie replayability

Metro Exodus, the third instalment of 4A Games’ Metro series, opts for stealth rather than the usual run and gun gameplay associated with first-person...

The Return of Survival Horror

The survival horror genre gained second wind at the end of January with the release of Resident Evil 2 (RE2), a current-generation remake of...

2018’s Games Of The Year

At the recent Game Awards actor Roger Clark (Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2) claimed that we are at the "advent of a golden age"...

The Death of the West…On A Screen Near You

Rockstar's prequel to their 2010 epic Red Dead Redemption is finally here - after eight full years in development. We've been playing it for the last...

Time Over for Game Development Overtime?

The scale and scope of computer games has expanded so much that to get them made developers and publishers are pushing their employees to...

Body Control Realises The Virtual

The new craze in video gaming is VR (Virtual Reality). This is usually based on an electronic head piece that contains a stereoscopic visual...

Never Too Old To Play

Some think that playing computer games is just for kids, and that no mature adult would be still be playing past a certain age....

Review: God of War 2018

            I’ve been waiting for this game ever since its announcement last year. It was released on April 20th and truly lives up to its...

Gaming: 24/7

I wake up, brush my teeth, go to the toilet then turn on my PlayStation 4.  For me gaming is not just a hobby but...

Black Heroes

With the Black Panther movie all over the news, I decided to trawl the entertainment landscape for other black heroes. Black Lightning is not a superhero that...

Films and Gaming: Where Will the Tide Take Them?

If 2017 was a year of hard truths, 2018 will be a year of healing. The entertainment industry might have taken a knock, but...

Anticipating 2018

What a rush 2017 gave to us hungry gamers! Some of the wildest games were released last year, which had all our gaming senses...

Christmas Ploys

As it's the biggest shopping period of the year, parents are eager to splash their cash on their little munchkins to ensure they have...

At The Top Of Her Gaming

As a female gamer, I’m used to hearing the usual ridicule and slander guys seem to throw at me whenever I say, “Hey I’m...

2017’s Games of the Year

As 2017 comes to the end, I am left reflecting on how solid a year it was; for game releases, console launches and platform...

How History Influenced Breath of the Wild

https://vimeo.com/244046027 The Kingdom of Hyrule in Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a vast, fantastical world of mythical creatures, and the...

Fantasy For Real

Over the weekend, I attended the October MCM London Comic Con, the twelfth time the convention has been held. It’s always exciting to see...

Ninja Theory Talk Games and Mental Health

This year's indie hit Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is two things: a fantastical odyssey into the depths of hell and an exploration of loss, trauma and psychosis....

SpatialOS: ‘an entirely new approach to game design’

New cloud-powered technology could redefine what we think of as an indie game. SpatialOS, created by Cambridge-based Improbable, makes development of bigger games easier and...

MCM Brings Star-Studded Line-Up To Newham

From the 27th-29th October, the biannual MCM will take place at London’s ExCel Centre at Royal Victoria Dock. Each year, it’s exciting to see East...

Gaming: an outsider’s view

I was recently asked to give my opinion on the video game industry from an “outsider's” perspective. As someone who studies psychology, I want...

Growing Old Starts Young!

The older I get, the more difficult it becomes to lose myself and become invested in a videogame. The realisation struck me a few...