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I love strategy games, and last year started a podcast called Critical Moves with some other chaps who are equally (and in some cases more!) into strategy games as I am. These games are my preferred types, especially as I've grown older and lack the reflexes to play FPS games effectively -...

This one has been on my radar for a very long time and it's finally getting released on April 24th and I can't wait. Just in time for the Easter long weekend - so you can guess what I'll be doing. I've played the demo, and recently got a chance to interview the game designer - Brandon...

BioWare was once the gold standard for Western RPGs but is now down to fewer than 100 employees following EA’s latest wave of layoffs. Over 200 people worked on Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and Bioware had up to 500 staff at it's peak. Now, a skeleton crew are working on the next Mass Effect game...

Somehow I dodged World of Warcraft entirely. Never touched it. I played Age of Conan to death. I always considered WoW to be kiddie in it's presentation. It was 'cartoon-y' whilst AoC was more grounded in realism (as real as you can get with necromancers, dragons and frost giants). Age of Conan...

After six years in development, Nightdive have finally confirmed a release date for their remaster of the excellent System Shock 2, and that date is June 26th 2025. It is available to pre-order on Steam and over at GOG too (and there's absolutely no difference in the price - £21.59 or whatever...

Bungie's next FPS, Marathon, is finally going live... sort of. The closed alpha kicks off April 23 ahead of the planned release in September 2025. You’ll need to be in North America, over 18, and get a code from Bungie through their Discord. No code, no access. This isn’t a public playtest. It’s...

Do you remember the first strategy game you played? I don't. It was either: Populous. God Game. That's a strategy game, right? I think I had this on the Sega Megadrive at one point. Civilization II. I must have spent 100s of hours building railway tracks across my empire for superfast troop...

And after you see the next one, come back and rate that too. The last one I saw was Gladiator 2 and I was profoundly disappointed. Rather than try something different they took the same tired underdog trope and made it shit. Tried to be clever with the set pieces but never came close to the...

In May 2024, Amazon Prime Video confirmed it was developing a Tomb Raider series, with Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge attached as writer and producer. Waller-Bridge hyped the project herself, saying, “Lara means a lot to me... Bats ’n all.” Fast forward to now: multiple sources say the...

World building in RPG games is very important. You need a living, breathing world to exist for a game to be fun. You also need a dangerous, enemy filled, treacherous world for a game to be interesting. No-one wants an easy life when playing an RPG, right? And developers have seen fit to give us...

What's your go to when playing FPS games? I get that if you're a consoles gamer you're mainly restricted to a joypad, but for us PC gamers do you opt for the convenience of a controller or the fine-grain control from keyboard & mouse? I've always found that trying to get a controller to work...

Of all the shooters from history, which game is the most satisfying. This doesn't have to be just in terms of raw firepower, it can be just like how it feels or how it sounds. I have two. One might be a controversial choice so we'll go with that first. Half-Life 2's gravity gun - especially...

I got heavily into gaming in the 90's so I'm probably biased when I say that the late 90's and early 00's were the peak of FPS gaming. Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, and then Half-Life and the ultimate FPS - Half-Life 2. Yeah, I'm biased, but that was the golden age. Modern shooters have lost...

How many games have you finished so far this year? One, two, any? Sometimes it's down to the game design. Most open-world, live-service games never end (I'm looking at you Destiny 2!) and that can steal any sense of accomplishment someone like me gets from games. I have replayed Portal and...

I'll start! Are you ready? "Trophy/achievement hunting is a waste of time." There, I said it! These things are put there to shore up bad games. It's like, if the quality isn't there for me to explore everything in the game, I'm not gonna bother to explore it. Developers know this, and trophies...

Where do you get your reviews from these days and are they any good? I saw a review recently that said that Assassins Creed: Shadows has 'some problems' and then the reviewer awarded it a perfect score. What's going on with that? How can something which has problems be perfect? That just doesn't...

Do you remember the first game that kept you awake at night either through playing or thinking about playing? For me it was Star Wars: TIE Fighter. First, the version in 1994 which I borrowed from a mate on floppy disk, and then as the sublime Collector's CD ROM which whacked up the resolution...

I've been playing a cute little game called Urbo. It was recommended by a curator on Steam and I really like it. It's a cozy little puzzle game where you build different levels of building which merge together to form the next level. Build space is limited, but even when you "lose" you end up...

Seems like there’s loads of games on the release radar all the time. Every day they add more. Some great, some … hmm … not-so-great but new games nonetheless. What new games do you have your beady eye on? Two for me: Doom The Dark Ages and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater.

If you’ve stumbled across this post… uh, welcome, I guess. Here I am, some guy talking to himself on an empty forum. But it felt right to drop a quick intro just in case someone else wanders in and wonders who lit the first match. Glitchfeed is a forum for Gaming • Culture • Tech. I know this...