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All reviewsKillzone: Shadow Fall2013
5 out of 5 starsThe current generation of console has now completed the transition from being referred to as the "next gen". While PC games have been showing off "FullHD" 1080p and beyond for a while, consoles have now caught up, at least sometimes. Hardware prices have dropped from £430 and £350 at launch (which in the UK meant the Xbox One, due to exchange rate differences since 2006, released at a higher sticker price than the…
The Stanley Parable2013
5 out of 5 starsI have decided to do my bit for the forwarding of the cause for the proliferation of objective reviews of interactive media content by providing a review of The Stanley Parable . This will provide readers with a useful method of deciding if The Stanley Parable if worth investing their time and money in. It will avoid all the wishy washy ideas of subjective analysis and simply provide you, the reader, with what you…
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All articles2017: Already a Banner Year
Mar 30, 2017
We're quarter of the way through the year now and everyone is noticing that games are, on the whole, very good. Rather than the few outstanding releases that either chased the early year window or missed their holiday deadline last year, we've seen a lot of stuff that's pretty interesting to the point where some weeks there have been 3 hot titles coming out on the same day. There have been seve...
Playing Mass Effect 2 Today
Feb 1, 2017
Mass Effect is an interesting series. I dove into the first game in 2007, going as far as to back-to-back my Paragon and Renegade playthroughs and jumping into those two early books by Drew Karpyshyn (once the second arrived in 2008). The first book (Revelation) added to the impressive world-building that the series started with. Small touches like using accelerated metal slivers to provide eff...
Shivoa's Top Games of 2016
Dec 30, 2016
It's the fifth year of annual gaming celebrations on my blog . Picking up from the end of last year , Kerbal Space Program did make a big impression with me in 2016 and really soared thanks to the engine updates (especially 1.1 and the UI engine changes) and finishing touches (better fonts and communications in 1.2). An evergreen title of slowly building out your space programme, I spent well o...
Mining for Fun and Profit
Oct 9, 2016
So I've been preparing for the KSP 1.2 patch (which will involve building out a satellite network to ensure communications with unmanned craft - I've never tried the mods that add similar functionality) by poking at the ore refinement system they added back at 1.0. Give me some practice with precision vehicles/landing and all that before the added risk of loss of communication is added into the...
Lessons in rendering (NMS is muddy but not due to low res)
Aug 16, 2016
So there has been lots of talk about internal render resolutions and game output this console generation. Is this game a 900p one, does the XB1 get forced down to 720p and then upscales it? It's a good topic for people who care about technical quality (say, all us render engineers who write the often boring code to throw polygons at screens via GPUs) and an endless swamp of people intent on hav...
My History with Forza (inc F6:Apex Review)
Jun 2, 2016
[Getting to] Forza Motorsport (xbox, 2005) I initially played a bit of everything: from Destruction Derby to Carmageddon 's focus on more combat than racing, from the more pure experiences of the endless Need for Speed titles to Screamer . If it arrived on PC, I probably had a go on at least the demo. On the MegaDrive it had been the likes of Out Run , Virtua Racing , and Super Hang-On that kep...
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