Pearce Jennings

Visage, however, is a great example of how good design and well-constructed ambiance, can make those jumpscares feel like a natural part of the experience.

This season, Respawn implemented some fairly strong changes to the ranked playlist in Apex.

r/LivestreamFails (LSF) is simultaneously one of the most used and most hated things in the Twitch community.

A lot of the Overwatch community are wondering whether or not Overwatch 2 is going to be the magical saviour that the franchise so desperately needs.

*Spoiler free review* Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is far from perfect, but there’s a reason it won best narrative at The Game Awards. It does an incredible job of making you feel like you’re pretty much a part of one giant Guardians of the Galaxy film, and that is basically what the game is; a very well-polished story with hilarious dialogue, that acts as a vessel for enjoying all your favourite characters. The story itself is relatively compelling, but it is the dynamic between the main characters that really makes the game so entertaining. There are a lot of…

With cross-play becoming more and more prominent across the games industry, it is turning into standard practice in a lot of competitive multiplayers to have mouse and keyboard players facing off against controller players in the same lobbies. This has understandably caused a lot of friction in certain communities due to the innate mechanical differences between the two, with many saying that the two inputs should never be pitted against each other in the same competitive setting. A lot of this comes from ideas around one input being better than the other, often with the argument being that mouse and…

Since Twitch has grown exponentially in the past few years, so has its female audience. Some of the most popular streamers on the platform are women, and overall, there is an overwhelmingly positive benefit to having a diverse set of male and female streamers. Given that Twitch is predominantly based around games however, it would be ignorant to say that the culture has been smooth sailing when it comes to the influx of women. Gaming in general has a notoriously toxic side to it, which a lot of people would say is just inherent to the competitive nature it often…

“A game about death, that is full of soul” There is such a large amount of choice on offer when it comes to games these days, that it is often very difficult to find something unique. Spiritfarer however, proves that there are still some truly special games out there, and stands as a refreshing reminder that the medium still has so much more to offer. It really is one of those ‘once in a blue moon’ kind of games. It is hard to directly categorise, but if it had to be labelled into archetypes then the gameplay itself is a…

For anyone who spends a lot of time watching Twitch, you’ll have no doubt been exposed to some of the slightly more negative things that the platform has to offer. For instance, in the past year alone there has been a massive surge of hate raids against streamers, which on the whole have been mostly targeted towards specific groups. Twitch added over three hundred tags last year for streamers to place under their stream titles, as a way of letting viewers know what their stream is all about. People would use bots to spam hate in any streams that were…

There has been a lot of discussion recently about Microsoft Studios’ acquisition of everyone’s favourite game company; Activision Blizzard. If the sarcasm there wasn’t clear, they haven’t exactly had the best reputation as of late. They are currently facing some of the most egregious discrimination and sexual misconduct claims ever seen within the games industry, in the form of a lawsuit made by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. It details claims of a “frat boy” culture at the company as well as extensive accounts of sexual harassment. It has also been alleged in recent months that the…