Author: Fraser Brown

There are some advantages to being a medieval peasant. Twitter hasn’t been invented yet, for instance, so your exposure to the worst opinions in the world is pretty limited. But there are, on balance, a lot more downsides. Healthcare is a tad iffy. You haven’t got any central heating. Back-breaking labour is the norm. And,…

I am not prepared for the final battle of Dragon’s Dogma 2. My borrowed pawns are underleveled, I’m running low on healing supplies and, after playing non-stop for 12 hours, I am very tired. I should have been smashed to bits, but something clicks as I’m scurrying underneath the massive dragon. I become one with…

By the time I wrote my Dragon’s Dogma 2 review, I’d played for 100 hours, completing one playthrough and starting my second. That’s a heck of a lot of game to play in a single week. Most of that time, however, was just spent preparing for the true Dragon’s Dogma 2.   When you make…

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a dense, complex game. And it’s absolutely massive. While tutorial messages provide a lot of important information, and can be read whenever you want from the History section found in the main menu, it can still be tough to keep track of everything you’re meant to know. And there’s a lot…

Dragon’s Dogma 2 has a cracking character creator that lets you fine-tune your Arisen and pawn to such a degree that you can even remove specific teeth. You can create the most stunning hero imaginable, or something right out of your worst nightmares, smeared head to toe in muck and sporting unnaturally long limbs. I…

Dragon’s Dogma 2 has finally arrived, and the reception has been… less than favourable. On Steam it now boasts more than 13,000 user reviews, and the majority of them are negative. Only 39% of players leaving reviews have given it a positive rating. It’s not off to a good start.  This “Mostly Negative” rating is…

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a stellar RPG, but as you may have noticed in our performance analysis it’s not exactly the smoothest one. It’s incredibly demanding on CPUs, resulting in performance issues that you won’t be able to escape regardless of how beefy your rig is. Capcom is aware of this, it says, but it…

Every RPG set in a massive open world expects you to spend a large amount of time exploring its multitude of nooks and crannies, but most of them also let you take a load off, zipping between previously visited locations instantaneously. Robust fast travel options have long been standard, but while they are undoubtedly convenient,…

Out of all the RTS settings we’ve seen over the years, space remains, for me, absolutely the most thrilling. Ever since Homeworld got its hooks in me over 20 years ago, I’ve never lost the craving for big spaceship battles in the uncaring void of space. Falling Frontier, then, is very much my kinda thing,…