Impact Gaming

Since the unveiling of the Xbox Scorpio and the PS4 Pro, a big deal of fuss has been made over what seems to be the herald of the end of ‘true’ console generations. The main argument being made is that this signals a move from the generational console platform...

For my last birthday my sister surprised me with an unexpected and thoughtful present, a boxed copy of Crash Team Racing for the Playstation 1. CTR was one of my most played and beloved games during childhood, I’ve always remembered it fondly as a personal favourite. In fact my...

In Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, you play as an ‘Alaensee Girlbeast’, the Janitor to which the title refers. Initially, you are tasked with traversing the spaceport, picking up junk and incinerating it, in order to get paid. “I spent the majority of this game not having any idea...

The 2000’s gave rise to a string of disaster movies, which reflected growing environmental concerns in the real world. Yet, for some reason this trend never quite reached the world of gaming. Even as action games started to include survival aspects, such as material collection and item crafting, disaster...

One of the problems that face a game that tries to do everything is that it often falls short in a few aspects, which bring the overall gameplay value down. No Man’s Sky is unique in this aspect; it has systematically and spectacularly failed at every single aspect that it promised...

*EA conference was technically a separate event in London titled EA Play. EA started off E3 season in 2016 with a (flash)bang, showing off the debut trailer to the sequel to the popular mecha-FPS game Titanfall. Titanfall 2 adds 6 new Titan variations to the gameplay and a single player campaign...

I have never been happier to be wrong about a video game in my entire life. DOOM, the fourth entry into id Software’s seminal franchise, was released May 13th 2016. Although an open multiplayer beta had left me very, very cold, I was so wrong. DOOM is an immaculately paced, beautifully designed,...