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Wrote a Daymare: 1998 review for BonusStage a few months ago. Figured I should link it here. I didn't like it. Full review -  https://www.bonusstage.co.uk/2020/06/12/daymare-1998-review-4/

[Video version here -  bit.ly/35QPsg4 ] [Note - This article is pretty much just a paste of the video script. I've changed some parts here and there so they actually make sense to read, though of course, some parts will translate better with visual accompaniment.] An NYPD detective faces the combined fury of Norse inspired drug peddlers and the schizophrenic manifestations of his own mind, in the search for the truth behind the death of his family. A successful author, looking for his missing wife, is attacked by his own creations, forewarned by the pages of the novel he can’t remember writing. The brother of a revolutionary scientist is granted time-controlling powers by an experiment gone wrong, and faces the wrath of a corporation hellbent on stopping the end of time itself. And, the director of a confidential government agency works to contain the otherworldly threats within an ever-shifting trans-dimensional building, using supernatural powers, aided by the ghost of the former...

[Video version of this post: https://bit.ly/2t3MoZT ] Day two of E3 2018’s major conferences has come and gone, and with it, our second conference. The first of the big three to have their show this year is Xbox, and the Xbox conference was full of big first-party reveals, indies, and more utterances of the words ‘Exclusive’ and ‘Premiere’ than you can shake a stick at. 50 games were shown over the course of the show, in what was a much faster-paced display than EA’s conference. Let’s get into details. Halo Infinite First off, was a biggun. As is typical for this franchise, the first trailer shown at the conference was a whole lot of “what could this be?” until finally, “oh sweet, it’s Halo”. Yep, the next Halo game is Halo Infinite, and while not much in the way of info was shared during the show, Halo Infinite appears to be essentially Halo 6. Though, note that the footage shown here was confirmed after the show to be simply engine footage showing off the new Slipspace ...

[Video version of this post: https://bit.ly/2HBM7Ss ] Welcome to what I plan and hope to be the first in a number of posts summarising the major game conferences of E3 2018.  Yes, E3 has arrived once again and in turn so have all the publishers out of the shadows, looking to excite you into giving them your money. It is my intent with these posts to show you everything that went down at these conferences, including all the game trailers, demos, and all of the…other stuff, but in a bit more of a quick and timely fashion, in the case that you want to know everything that went down, but watching them in full isn’t your cup of tea.  Naturally, we’ll be starting with the first conference: EA Play, (yes, not technically part of E3, but as close as you can get). Battlefield V EA started their conference with one of their biggest hitters, Battlefield V , and just in case the 30 minutes of talking about it event they held a couple weeks ago wasn’t enough, here the...

If there's one vice I spend too much of my time consuming other than video games, it's music. Those who know me know I spend almost all of my waking hours "plugged in" (as my Gran puts it) to a pair of earphones. Something that's made me severely aware of this fact recently is Spotify's 'Year Wrapped' feature. If you're not familiar, it tells you how many minutes of music you've listened to on Spotify in the last year, as well as the artists you listened to most. Here's mine: I am unashamed of my affinity for a bit of Coldplay That adds up to 984 hours, or 41 days. Evidently, I will be deaf before I hit 30. You might notice the fifth of my 'Top Artists', Miracle of Sound, one of the musicians I listen to who represents a great combination of gaming and music. You're probably familiar with their type. After all, there's been loads of gaming-inspired musicians who've popped up on YouTube over the last decade or ...

Thanks to a Metal Gear marathon I embarked upon in 2015, I missed many of 2016's games as they came out. Even now, as 2017's just ended, I'm still playing catch-up. The fact of the matter is, there's just too many games to play, and not nearly enough time to play them (at least, not if I want to not fail Uni, and cling on to what little of a social life I have left). I've made good progress in the last few months. In my endeavour to play through everything I've missed, I've been buying and playing those I'm interested in, in release order. I just finished Titanfall 2 yesterday (great campaign, albeit short), and now I'm playing Dishonored 2, so I'm firmly in November of 2016. Massive shout-out to Wikipedia's ' in video gaming ' lists, by the way; big help. While I've made exceptions to my release order strategy for certain games I've been very excited for (e.g. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Zelda, and Mario Odyssey), most of...