Twelve months after a new game’s release, we take stock of its accomplishments in the time that’s passed, and the time we’ve spent with it.
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Overwatch For avid gamers, May 2016 was a crowd-pleaser. Or at least, it very much wanted to be. Nostalgic FPS fans were treated to a revamp of DOOM, which seemed to tick all the boxes of the original: luridly violent, impenetrably stupid and irrepressibly fun. For RPG fanatics with literally nothing …
Dark Souls III and Ratchet & Clank On April 12th last year, new additions to two beloved video game franchises were released to much anticipation and fanfare. In most ways, they couldn’t have been more different from one another: there’s Dark Souls III, a moribund slog through an oblique medieval world full of blisteringly difficult enemies requiring …