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Nick’s Top 10 Games Played in 2025
2025 was a rocky year for the games industry. Major publishers and studios continued to shrink or restructure, and layoffs rippled through both small and large development teams. At the same time, Generative AI has emerged from being a novelty chatbot, and has now become a central talking point pretty much everywhere. This has already…
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Mark’s Top 10 Games Played in 2025
The last few years the video game industry has been in somewhat of a crisis – mass layoffs, studio closures, cancelled games – and that continued this past year with yet more layoffs, union busting, and generative AI in game development. If that wasn’t enough then one of the biggest publishers in the industry is…
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280 – Checkpoint: Summer Game Fest 2025
Mark is joined by Chazzee and Nick to talk about all the games that were shown at the 2025 edition of Geoff Keighley’s video games circle jerk, plus the Playstation and Xbox showcases and some of the smaller ones.
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The Uneasy Comfort of Empty Houses
Exploring a haunting subgenre of narrative games where eerie empty houses, immersive sound design, and quiet tension tell unforgettable stories. Featuring Gone Home, Blue Prince, and more.
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279 – Checkpoint: In This Economy?!
Nick is joined by Chazzee and Andy to discuss the cancellation of the Black Panther game and further job losses at EA, critical reception of Elden Ring: Nightreign, and the rumoured Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, before running down all the games they’ve played recently.
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Andy’s Top 10 Games Played in 2018
10 – Ryse Son of Rome The last game I played in 2018 made its way into the top 10, partly because I am a sucker for a game based on Ancient History. There aren’t many 3rd person games set in Rome (I can only remember Shadow of Rome on the PS2), but the graphics…
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Mark’s Top 10 Games Played in 2018
The top ten games that I played this year that mostly came out this year except for a few that didn’t.
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We Need To Talk About Destiny
Back when Destiny 2 launched I planned to write a full review for this site. I set myself the target of playing all of the content in the game before delivering a verdict; however this took longer than expected due to life getting in the way of various members of my raid team. By the…
