Posts By Mat Growcott

Making choices in video games is a bit like a cool morris dancer or an ideal candidate for dealing with Brexit – they don’t exist. Even in games that pretend to offer decision after decision to affect your play, the reality is that you have only two choices. You can keep playing or you can turn it off. That’s it. That might sound reductionist, and in many ways it is, but think about it. Developers make a world that they…

Remaking Final Fantasy VII is like having a second stab at Harry Potter or taking a shot at Sgt Peppers. There’s something about it that just feels dirty.

Resident Evil is the franchise on everybody’s lips. Gamers are preparing to buy the second entry in their millions, Capcom is pushing the genre forward with every new title and fans can’t wait to see what happens next. The year is 1998 – and the bubble is about to burst. The reaction to the first trailer for the second REmake has been almost universally positive, and rightly so. It was different, but in a way that embraced both the old…

Dwindling sales and negative reaction for Ghosts meant that Black Ops 3 had to really impress to win back an audience quickly become disinterested. Sales are still high - and rightfully so, it's unlike anything else on the market - but when faced with a choice between Call of Duty and Star Wars Battlefront, who is going to win?

The entire marketing campaign for Metal Gear Solid V has been about changing or hiding an identity, and so its clear - you don't play as Big Boss in The Phantom Pain.

Resident Evil is no longer the game it was twenty years ago and with good reason. Revelations 2 takes a step back towards horror while keeping a lot of what made the newer games fun, but the co-op is at the least disappointing.

The little plastic toy trade is going well for Activision, Disney and Nintendo, filling the coffers in a way that few franchises manage to do. Should Microsoft and Sony get in while they still can?

If you've been desperately waiting for a code for Rainbow Six Siege, check your emails - new codes seem to have been sent out.

The Discover notifications may have seemed a good idea to introduce people to the new features of the PS4's firmware 2.50 - but they just won't go away.

Lionhead removed the poster after sensitive voices found it crude. The upsetting thing is that their judgement came entirely from their own view of women.