RISEN 3: TITAN LORDS
The Risen games (as we’ve said before) are always pretty lacklustre affairs. They seem to exist exclusively in that space... View Article
Author Archives for Luke M
XOTH – Hostile Terraforming
Holy fuck, space is terrifying. It’s big, it’s dark and don’t look but it’s hovering above you right now. It’s... View Article
BELPHEGOR – Conjuring the Dead
If you haven’t heard of Belphegor, here’s everything you need to know. Their name is taken from a demon who... View Article
DIVINITY – Original Sin
With a name like “Divinity: Original Sin”, certain associations come to mind. Terrible graphics, shoddy control mechanisms and messages not... View Article
ALESTORM – Sunset On the Golden Age
According to google, the record for circumnavigating the globe in a ship, alone, is 78 days. If you cut in... View Article
DARK SOULS II – The Crown of the Sunken King
Does anybody remember expansion packs? Oblivion’s “Shivering isles” comes to mind. A whole new slice of game was standard fare... View Article
SOVENGAR – Vindicta et Gloria
There’s something quite special about new folk metal albums, especially those coming from new folk metal bands. Perhaps it’s just... View Article
VLAD THE IMPALER
What is a game? A miserable little pile of activities. But enough referencing… let’s review. Oh wait, are you looking... View Article
EMPYRIUM – The Turn of the Tides
It’s been difficult, when dealing with Empyrium, to know which tense to use. After their 2002 album Weiland, they announced... View Article
DEMONIC RESURRECTION – The Demon King
Bless wicked Amaymon, but that’s a hell of an album cover. I mean, look at it, it’s got everything; fire,... View Article
ABYSS ODYSSEY
There’s something distinctly metal about the word “abyss”, isn’t there? Technically speaking it means little more than “big ole’ hole”,... View Article
WOLF – Legions Of Bastards
It can sometimes feel like an easy job, being a reviewer. There’s always a temptation to be overly harsh, slipping... View Article
BANISHED
The city builder has been much maligned in recent years. With the release of the new and disgustingly, abysmally broken... View Article
VINTERSORG – Naturbål
Much like a woodsman who’s been caught in a forest fire, taken refuge in a tree and discovered hornet’s nest,... View Article