Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, Review
Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, delivers all the speed, campiness and explosions needed to blow ya hair back and brighten your day.
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Xbox Series X
Star Wars: Zero Company – Review
Star Wars: Zero Company has been built by Bit Reactor which is a studio made up of ex-Firaxis developers. The very studio which gave us X-COM 2! Yes, you are correct, a “pattern of awesome” is starting to form. And to top it off, these amazing devs have added into the special tactical-sauce, a full-blown story with an engaging cast of characters, stunning voice acting and a meaningful consequence to choices.
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Assassins Creed Black Flag Resynced
Gamers are usually justified in rolling their eyes when the terms “remake” and “remastered” start getting tossed about by publishers. As most of the time, it is a cash grab that can be spotted a mile away. But, this scepticism is misplaced this time round at least, as Assassins Creed Black Flag Resynced, is an absolute gem of a game!
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Samsung Viewfinity S85TH Super Wide monitor – review
At times here at the Cottage, we get the opportunity to test drive the latest hardware. Sometimes it’s good stuff, sometimes it’s not so flash. This time though…it is certainly VERY good stuff. Samsung sent us the brand new Viewfinity S85TH Super Wide monitor for a general hoon, and wow….just Wow.
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Screamer – Review
An arcade racer with a modern anime inspired narrative, made by a team with proven chops in racing games….”yes please!” The new Screamers is a unique offering for the arcade racer space, and in the absence of any new Burnouts or Wipeouts for many years, this is a very welcome release for fans of the genre.
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Marathon – Review
As a long-term Halo and Destiny fan with hundreds, if not thousands of hours stacked up in these Bungie games over the last 20 years. I have found their amazing new game Marathon very challenging game to follow… and now finally review.
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Quarantine Zone: The Last Check – Byte Size Review
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check, is the gamification of a military checkpoint after a zombie outbreak. Think the FEDRA military checkpoints in the opening hours of The Last of Us, with the gameplay loop of Papers Please.
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Battlefield 6, review, PS5
After that Battlefield 6 reveal that took a few people by surprise a couple of months ago, hotly followed by the Beta weekends and an oh-so-short run up to release, here we are.
It may have been a short wait, but it’s been an anxious one, could DICE bring us back to the frontline? Would we be getting a return to form, the opportunity to make a difference in objective centric games and come away from battles with memorable moments again?
In short, the answer to all of the above is Yes.
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Borderlands 4 – PC Review
Borderlands 4 is a return to form for the franchise, after bit of a miss-step with the design choices in number 3. Borderlands 4 is full-on channelling Borderlands 2 energy, but with a lot more modern refinement to the gameplay loop and endgame.
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Baby Steps – Review
Baby Steps is a fantastic example of what Indie Developers can do with their creative freedom. No major publisher would have signed off on this game and its very unique mechanics, which won’t be for everyone, but the fact it has been made is a credit to the indie games scene and cult status is sure to be the result.
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Helldivers 2 – Byte Size Review (XSX)
Now its on my beloved Xbox I have properly dug into the chaos, but I can’t help imagine the conversation of how we came to be here… “Hey Sony! How about we swap you Gears of War for Helldivers 2? Yeah? OK? Awesome.”
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