Author: Robert Purchese

[ad_1] Gareth Damian Martin found a new way to tell a story in In Other Waters, presenting us with a luminous dashboard of buttons and scanners and radars to toy around with, then feeding a story through it. It was elegant, it was unusual and it worked – it made a big impression on me.…

[ad_1] I’ve had a soft spot for Inkle ever since playing Sorcery! on my old banger of an iPhone many years ago, and I’ve been delighted by every single game it has made since. Games like 80 Days, Heaven’s Vault, Overboard! and Pendragon – games that wield words masterfully. And I cannot wait for the…

[ad_1] You’re at a friends’ house having dinner and they need another fork, and they ask you to get it. So you get up, go to the cutlery drawer and open it – and you freeze. Look at the state of that! It’s like the knives and forks and spoons have had a rave in…

[ad_1] Aoife is our queen of video. She helped imagine what video could be for Eurogamer eight years ago, and she’s worked to define it ever since. If you’ve ever seen a Eurogamer video on YouTube, there’s a whopping great chance she’s in it. But what is life really like in that role, in the…

[ad_1] I hate to break it to you but Baldur’s Gate 3 probably isn’t going to be fully released in 2022. Remember, a part of the game has been available in early access on Steam and Stadia since autumn 2020. “We think we’re in our last year of development,” Swen Vincke, founder of Larian and…

[ad_1] I love this trend of MMOs making you feel really powerful from the beginning. It’s so refreshing, and joyful. There’s none of this power austerity, none of this ‘yes you can be powerful but you’ll have to earn it, young one’. Games like Black Desert Online and now Lost Ark just want to be…

[ad_1] A player’s attention isn’t a given but something to be earned. Sometimes I struggle with new games, with new worlds, and I wonder if it’s just me. I struggle in the sense that I can feel myself resisting them and refusing to accept them. I can feel them pushing new things on me, new worlds…

[ad_1] It’s remarkable what can be created from so little. It’s all the more remarkable for the number of times I’ve told myself I cannot create something because I don’t have time. In only two-and-a-half hours at the weekend, I helped create a world from scratch and played a one-off campaign in it. To be…

[ad_1] “We’re doing it for us.” “We’re doing it for us.” Those five words changed how I felt about acting in plays at theatres, and maybe about things in my wider life too. I overheard someone say them during rehearsals and to begin with, I didn’t like what I heard. It sounded like someone saying, ‘It…

[ad_1] Aoife Wilson has been at the forefront of Eurogamer video for nearly eight years now, and has helped steer the YouTube Channel through changing faces and changing directions towards the inclusive and uplifting place it has become. That you haven’t seen a video of hers is an idea I won’t even entertain! She holds…