As I mentioned in my previous post I actually had nothing scheduled during the Bank Holiday Weekend. what made this one particularly good was that it also coincided with the made up holiday of May 4th, aka May the Fourth Be With You. In other words, an excuse to immerse oneself in Star Wars content over 4 days. Not only...

Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition was the first Dragon Quest game I ever played and it was only because of the very generous demo that Square-Enix released for the Switch that prompted me to give it a go. I ended up receiving the game for Christmas later that year and did get another 15...

I came across this video on YouTube titled "You NEED To Stop Playing Games Efficiently". It kept appearing in my suggestions (which thankfully are actually quite useful) and as it wasn't particularly long I decided to give it a watch. Yeah, this guy isn't wrong. I do recommend you watch the video itself, but the gist is...

This week the 3.0 update and the paid optional Switch 2 upgrade (4K and mouse controls) came out for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Aside from briefly playing it again before Christmas to check that my save file did actually copy over from my Switch 1, it had been around 2-3 years since I last properly played it. My...

On Monday a week after the game launched, Skate Story received its first patch, and for me this was the one needed to fix the issues I was having with it on the PS5 Pro. Now the game is running exactly as it should on the system. Rather than having to play a slightly downgraded version via streaming.As a game this is...

This week Skate Story was released. This is a game I've been looking forward to since I first heard about it. A large part of this was down to the inclusion of music from the New York band Blood Cultures. Admittedly it was via the first trailer for Skate Story that introduced me to them, but I was hooked instantly.I was...

It's actually happened, Halo is coming to PlayStation! This has been rumoured for a little while now, and given Microsoft's recent efforts of bringing pretty much all of its other previously exclusive franchises over (although having already brought over everything to Windows, even if it's "still in the family") to...

I haven't posted the past couple of days. Partly because of continuing lesson prep and partly because of the second weekend of the Battlefield 6 beta. This time the public beta was available to all from the Friday and what's more the waiting times to get into the "game" were minimal to non-existent this time. It feels...

I'm on a short trip via train for work. Because I'm trying to keep my bag light I purposefully didn't bring my Switch 2. But I did want to bring a videogame device. I haven't gone down the rabbit hole of retro handhelds, so that leaves me conveniently with the Playdate. I've had one for quite a while, I think I was in...

Now that I have a new laptop with a processor from this decade (yes my previous one was that old) I wanted to put this new one through its paces and test its gaming chops.I wasn't going crazy and trying out some recent AAA game, in part because I don't have one linked to my Steam account and I can't be bothered to...