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I can’t remember a technology product I’ve been so undecided on for so long as the Apple Watch...
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Atlas Shrugged is something of an anomaly. For every online commenter promoting Ayn Rand’s mod...
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One of the greatest joys of EA Sports FC 24’s Career Mode is to scout the next generation of t...
EA Sports FC 24, the new incarnation of the series previously known as FIFA, is a great footba...
In about 2011, when I was a religious FIFA player and could beat just about anyone who challen...
One benefit of increased awareness of my emotions and their origins is that I can identify pat...
Starfield is an exciting video game. The anticipatory din around the release of Bethesda Game ...
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I love Gran Turismo - I’ve been playing it since the 90s. But if you asked me to choose a vide...
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It’s been a while since I published one of my longer gaming articles, but after playing Yakuza...
I had reason to reward myself last week, and having been hovering in indecision for some time,...
When it comes to money, I’m something like a squirrel. I receive it and I tuck it away for lat...
There was a time in about 2018 when I thought The Outer Worlds would be the fix for Fallout 4....
It’s a little embarrassing to admit it publicly, but I sometimes suffer from the “le wrong gen...
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Viva Las Vengeance is perhaps the greatest album ever to have almost completely passed me by, ...
I’m very glad I didn’t go to see The Menu at the cinema. Not because it’s a bad film, but beca...
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Just before Christmas 2022, Netflix released Glass Onion, the next film in the Knives Out seri...
It’s been quite a ride for The Strat Pack since the site’s original soft launch in September 2...
Last time out in my FIFA 22 Career Mode series I was lucky to hold on to my job as TSP United ...
Fans on the Splinter Cell subreddit were speculating recently about what Ubisoft might do for ...
With a bit more time on my hands this week, I decided to dust off my Xbox One and play through...
Half of the enjoyment of any racing game comes from achieving the perfect balance between your...
F1 22’s free-to-play weekend came at a tough time for Codemasters and EA - at least as far as ...
I was shocked on multiple levels to find that one of my favourite childhood games recently cel...
I caught a streamer I follow playing Marauders recently and the game looks fantastic. For thos...
For my next retrospective, I decided to dive back into one of the most memorable games of my c...
I finally gave into temptation and bought the final chapter of in one of my favourite series o...
We saw one of the biggest leaks in video game history last Sunday as a hacker uploaded a huge ...
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I’ve been running on and off for years, but I was in two minds when I first considered signing...
There was a time, certainly in the 2000s but also arguably as early as the 1980s - I’m looking...
I’m back after a longer-than-expected break for COVID-related reasons, and have returned just ...
It was last week, nearly nine whole years after the release of Grand Theft Auto V, that an ar...
Just in case you hadn’t already heard, Stray is a game where you play as a cat. Ever since it ...
There was a time, way back in 2007, when Valve was a company that made video games, and releas...
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I got back to Thruxton last week after nine months away, travelling down to Andover to watch t...
My journey through the Resident Evil universe continued this month as I picked up 2019’s Resid...
Any semi-regular reader of this blog will know that I’m a fairly frequent critic of live servi...
There are different ways to tackle FIFA 22’s Career Mode. Some players prefer to take the Pari...
Everyone has a series or two that are widely regarded as the pinnacle of video games that they...
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I hadn’t bought a FIFA game in years, but I couldn’t resist picking up FIFA 22 when I learnt t...
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I have good memories of the Modern Warfare trilogy. Between 2007 and 2011, I bought all the ga...
Gran Turismo 7 is a now a week old and I’ve just finished all the café menus in Campaign Mode....
Chris Sawyer’s all-time classic RollerCoaster Tycoon will always be the king of theme park man...
With some time to kill and spotting a decent discount on Steam, I picked up a copy of FIFA 22 ...
Unless you’ve got the money and the space to fill your mansion with real Formula 1 cars, scale...
Rockstar practically broke Twitter with its announcement of what will surely be Grand Theft Au...
It’s no secret that I am very excited for Gran Turismo 7, so when we got a 32-minute “deep div...
Project Zomboid is yet another game that was sitting in my Steam library for a long time befor...
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Spend any length of time reading online forums for football games and you’ll come across compl...
There’s an episode of South Park that first aired about a decade ago where Stan wakes up one d...
Ubisoft has announced that it’s working on a Splinter Cell remake! This Christmas miracle land...
Flow is a weird thing, all inconsistent and unpredictable. When I go to play a video game, one...
I wrote last week about my first impressions of The Sims 4 (spoiler alert: they weren’t great)...
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Anyone who reads this blog will know that I like to play some emulated games from time to time...
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eFootball 2022 rang alarm bells as soon as it was announced. Gone was Pro Evolution Soccer, th...
Let’s face the facts: Transport Fever 2 is a lot like Transport Tycoon. You’re dropped into a ...
What if Football Manager wasn’t a computer game you play alone in front of a screen until the ...
In my Transport Fever 2 review I wrote about the how the game sometimes frustrates by leaving ...
With the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic somewhat reduced thanks to the UK’s vaccination progr...
If you’ve read my review of Transport Fever 2, you’ll know that one of the most frustrating pa...
I’m a little off the pace with Motorsport Manager. Playsport Games’ Formula 1 management game ...
Remember the Sony PlayStation 5 games showcase in June 2020? I wouldn’t be surprised if the co...
Pro Evolution Soccer 5 has always been an all-time favourite of mine, but it is only now, 15 y...
This month’s off-topic post delves into the world of Football Manager – a game I’ve found myse...
I’ve been meaning to visit Brands Hatch for a long time, so since I’d just passed my GCFE exa...
It’s the last Friday of the month, which means it’s time for an off-topic post – this time on...
For this month’s off-topic post I thought I’d give an update on my PC project and a review of...
I recently wrote about how to find a good setup in Project Cars 2. A few races down the line ...
As a pretty big Formula 1 fan, it was only a matter of time until I did my best Adrian Newey ...
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It may have taken me eight years to watch The Social Network, but at least I’d heard of it be...
After getting a couple of satellites into orbit in Kerbal Space Program, I decided I wanted t...
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