For no particular reason I’d like to bring up the concept of sidequests. The essential component of an open world RPG, for without ...

Whoops, been a while since the last column, hasn’t it; I’ve been rather occupied with moving from one sovereign nation to a different ...

So in the end credits of ZP last week I made a throwaway comment to the effect that Id Software’s game release history ...

So let’s talk about comedy games. In my last ZP I talked about Headlander, and how it felt more like a game with ...

It’s the middle of the year, and you know what that means: triple A release drought. And you know what triple A release ...

Doing Shadow of the Beast last week – in the biblical sense – brought on a bit of nostalgia for your humble correspondent, ...

I wonder if E3 is long for this world. As I said in my last video, it doesn’t seem to matter whether publishers ...

After I was finished with playing Overwatch last week, I got curious about its loot system. How it works is that all 21 ...

In my last XP – and I apologise if this column is starting to turn into a serialized ramble – I mentioned that ...

Last time in XP I briefly harped on the Ratchet and Clank movie, and I realised it might be worth drawing attention to ...

Witness the inherent cognitive dissonance of reboots like Ratchet and Clank and Star Fox Zero. Games that attempt to sell themselves by evoking ...

Could we perhaps make some kind of official universal agreement to the effect that the whole ‘branching path’ thing in triple-A story-driven games ...