No, this blog post has nothing to do with Forza Horizons. If that was your first thought from reading the title, as you may assume from a video game crazy man, then I’m afraid you have been misled. Talking about being misled I think I’ve been reading too many popular gaming websites these days, sprouting their attention grabbing headlines and filling my noggin with so many factoids about nothing in particular that for some reason I feel like I actually learned something useful.
Where did that chip come from? Who cares it tastes great!
So in case you didn’t notice, I’m on my soapbox today. The reason this happened is because for the first time in many years I decided to read GamesMaster magazine, my childhood publication of choice. This magazine fundamentally grew my enjoyment of gaming at a very early age into a love and a passion. I read every inch of every magazine and absorbed all the cross platform goodness even though I only owned a Gameboy and later, a Playstation. But that didn’t matter to me, what I was reading was and still is good wholesome material about games that reminds me of a time when I didn’t care about achievements, multiplayer high scores or internet hits. I feel like I’ve become too bogged down in exclusivity and review scores lately and GamesMaster has been a welcome change to the OXM’s, OPM’s and 10 out of 10’s.
I started writing because of my love for gaming and I started gaming when I was old enough to hold a Gameboy, which was harder than it sounds, as Gameboy’s were chunky grey bricks back then. Lately it feels as if this passion has been dimmed due to, in my opinion, an un-founded feeling of needing to be faithful to my platform. GamesMaster has opened my eyes to the world I have been missing, the plethora of accessible technology and platform variance.
It has also reminded me of a time when I used to read articles because they meant something to me, not because they were top news items, or because I thought it was something that someone else needed to hear, or because I was sponsored to do so (which I most certainly am not). Because I was open minded and interested and passionate.
My writing is for me a means to show what I am passionate about and that’s not what it’s been thus far. I am always looking to improve when I can, learn when I can and from now on, try my best write in a way that presents this passion to the reader.
Burly Bird Media: ARC Raiders has no business being this good. A reasonably objective eye can see it’s not a particularly original conceit within the extraction shooter space, and the scale of its ambition is such that one might expect servers to be wonky or combat to be unbalanced. Yet despite these assumptions, what remains is a title that is fiercely confident in its delivery, and a developer that is leveraging its considerable talent pool (following their barnstorming work on The Finals) to make a game that feels cohesive and ready to drop.
Pearl Abyss has set November 2 as the potential global launch date for Crimson Desert, according to a reliable Korean website.
WTMG's Leo Faria: "I have no idea what happened for MindsEye to come out at such a pitiful state, but even if it worked as intended, it would have been, at best, a truly mediocre cover shooter with a subpar “what if big techs were bad” story (spoiler alert: they also are in real life). But when you add in the horrendous framerate, poor optimization, braindead enemy AI, and countless bugs, then there’s no way to recommend this trainwreck, even to those looking for an ironic playthrough of a crappy game. Don’t bother with it, there’s plenty of fish in the sea right now. You don’t need to risk your stomach eating one that has eaten too many microplastics over the years."
GamesMaster magazine, never heard of this o0!
It's published and sold in UK only. GamesMaster was originally a TV show, the first ever in the UK to be solely dedicated to video games. The show continued as the magazine was first published in 1993 when I was 6!
You may have heard of its sister publication Edge?