The Curious Death of Xbox Over the past few months it has become common place to find piece after piece on the internet lamenting the seeming self-immolation of Microsoft-Xbox. Attempts at rebranding and re-invention seem to have fallen flat with Xbox executives all but giving up the ghost. Don Mattrick was the forerunner, a harbinger […]
An Elite Take On PlayStation’s DualSense Edge Controller As a medium of art, gaming excels in the one place where other forms of media fail or simply can’t succeed: Immersion. Each time we dive into video games, we extend our arms into the void and are often greeted by the gentle caress of vibrations in […]
One could be forgiven for thinking that the Gears of War franchise was nothing more than a motley assortment of big dumb Michael Bay-style type video games. After all, each outing in the series seems to go with the motif of bigger and better. Imbued with a flare for the theatrical the Gears of War […]
One of the very first video games I purchased when I first bought a gaming console was Tomb Raider from 2013. I purchased the sequel alongside it and in the last year I was able to purchase the final game in the trilogy. Technically speaking, the video game is a masterpiece albeit with some technical […]
A few years ago I purchased a second hand Xbox 360 slim unit, Microsoft’s proprietary gaming console. Even though I was several years late to the party and the Xbox One was in the latter half of its life cycle this was my induction into the world of gaming. This served as my first proper […]
While for most people video games are a form of entertainment with repetitive elements of gameplay meant to pass time, they have long since transcended the boundaries of simple gameplay and have become bonafide works of art. A source of cultural commentary much in the same way that films are. The main difference between video […]