Illustration by Maxine Boudway. Context: I am not a tech guru. Everything I know comes from friends who work in the industry, engineers, or from YouTube. I am the absolute last person anyone should ever come to for tech advice. … Continue reading The Steam Deck Tech Review from a Newb
Originally Published in Print, April 2022. Art by Meghan Flood TN2 GAMES OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2021 Best Multiplayer: It Takes Two Hazelight Studios’ It Takes Two is perhaps the most surprising hit found in the catalogue of … Continue reading A Retrospective on Gaming in 2021 The Games Team reflect on the games we played in 2021
FIFA 22 is EA’s latest football simulator. Its effective monopoly over the football gaming market for the last fifteen or so years has frustrated many. Recent releases in particular have seen the franchise move away from feeling like a football … Continue reading FIFA 22 // Review EA’s Cash Cow has improved but continues to be plagued by fundamental issues
Originally published in print, September 2021. Spoilers For Good Will Hunting The cost of PC gaming is prohibitively high. Most comprehensive gaming PCs range from €1,500 to more than €2,000. But those PCs are only necessary if … Continue reading A Guide to Gaming on a College Laptop How to game without breaking the bank
Namco Bandai have had an interesting decade. Outside of the form-redefining Dark Souls (2011) the publisher has not had many breakout hits. They have, however, funded a plethora of novel, single-player titles, from the bone chillingly brilliant Little Nightmares (2017), … Continue reading Scarlet Nexus // Review
Way back in 2013, at the PS4 reveal event in New York City, the software that would eventually become Dreams was unveiled for the first time. Developed by Media Molecule, the studio behind Little Big Planet and Tearaway, it was … Continue reading Spotlight: Dreams (PS4) Originally published in print March 2020.
With the release of a new Animal Crossing game, I’ve been preoccupied with slice of life games. Instead of action and adventure, slice of life games aim to capture the mundanity of everyday life. It could be that of a … Continue reading The Simple Joy of Slice of Life Games Originally published in print March 2020.
Blasting zombies together on a couch is my favourite form of bonding. To this day, I remember my stepfather’s giggles when he would land a headshot on an alien, describing the exaggerated gore “like an exploding watermelon”. I’ve always loved … Continue reading Games for Beginners Taking the leap.
Join Games & Tech Editor Eoin Moore and our Editor in Chief Meadhbh McGrath for all the latest from the RDS at Web Summit 2014. Continue reading Web Summit 2014 – live blog
WORDS Emmie Taylor ILLUSTRATION Alice Wilson The discussion of gender inequality is often an issue that sends the masses spiralling into fits of outrage or bouts of disgusted eye-rolling. Unfortunately, within the realm of video games it is also a subject that … Continue reading Level Playing Field
WORDS Eoin Moore It’s difficult to feel anything but sheer embarrassment about this whole ridiculous sequence of events. The Dickwolves controversy stopped being about free speech and rape culture almost immediately after it started, and has since been a childish … Continue reading The Dickwolves Saga, and its Sorry Consquences