Tag: Gaming
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In Conversation with Shintaro Kanaoya, Founder of Chorus Worldwide and CEO
Chorus Worldwide have one golden rule when it comes to publishing video games, they like working with good people on titles they love. This I was told by the company’s CEO and founder Shintaro Kanaoya, when I was fortunate enough to sit down and chat with him during the recent London event W.A.S.D.. At the…
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Three Days at W.A.S.D.: Or Why Indie Ambition Reigns Supreme
Last Thursday I had the pleasure of travelling from Cardiff to London’s Tobacco Dock in order to cover W.A.S.D., a new event that offered the opportunity to play a ton of upcoming indie games, chat with developers and attend panels covering all aspects of the industry. Unlike my most recent trip to the bustling capital…
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Chocobo GP Review – Indefensible Fun
I am a bad person for buying and enjoying Chocobo GP. Only in the year of our Lord 2022 could the physical act of walking into a shop and purchasing a game prove itself to be a moral dilemma. The upcoming Harry Potter game also looks to fit neatly in this category, and consumers will have to grapple…
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Meta is Dead, Long Live VRChat
I stumbled upon VRChat at about the same time most people did, during late 2017/early 2018 and smack bang in the middle of the incredibly unfunny ‘Ugandan Knuckles’ meme’s meteoric rise in popularity. The game, at that point in time, saw a huge influx of players — mostly kids aping their YouTube idols, spouting ‘do you know…
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Five of the Best Critically Misunderstood Games
Relying on aggregate review scores to give you the what’s good on the best of the best video games is, and always will be, a mistake. Generally, sites like Metacritic and OpenCritic are only useful for those who aren’t particularly fussed with the details; gamers who want a general overview of whether a title is…
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Infinite Weekends: In Search of the Perfect Video Game Length
Elden Ring made me incredibly sick. Ever since I managed to finish up the game at exactly 8:15 AM on March 11th, I have had a sore throat, blocked nose and thumping headache. Now, this may be due to the fact that on the previous Friday I went out and drank far too much (and…
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Five of the Best Final Fantasy Songs
Without a doubt, Final Fantasy is home to some of the best video game music ever composed. Every single game in the series is packed to the brim with standout tracks and to try and condense all these masterful melodies into something as banal as a list is, quite frankly, doing them a disservice — that said,…
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10 Hours with Elden Ring
After three years of anticipation, FromSoft’s Elden Ring was finally released last Friday to universal critical acclaim. Eager to enter the Lands Between, I booted up the game that morning and proceeded to spend about five hours exploring, fighting and dying. Almost everyone else I know (even those with only a passing interest in video games) did…
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There and Not-Quite Back Again — The Story of How Six Low-Level Hobbits Walked to Rivendell in The Lord of the Rings Online
It is hard to get an exact measurement of just how big Lord of the Rings Online is. Initially released in 2007, the game now has nine separate expansions, each of which adds another huge playable area to the virtual Middle Earth (the most recent of which was released as recently as November 2021). Trawling through the…
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Waiting to Die (Consumerism, Hype and Elden Ring)
My brain has an unfortunate habit of fixating on a game I’m excited about, so much so that it actively lessens my enjoyment of anything I’m attempting to play in the meantime. I’ll be the first to admit that this kind of reaction is a little childish, akin to a five-year-old unable to sleep the…
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