Impact Gaming

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,...

Dark Souls III is already available to gamers in Japan (as well as sneaky Xbox One players worldwide) and will become available in the UK incredibly soon. The building excitement for the latest Fromsoftware release seemed the perfect excuse for me to explore what was so brilliant about one...

Are you ready to defend earth from the Alien invaders yet again in XCOM2? Regardless of your answer, tough, because it’s too late. Remember that first play through of XCOM: Enemy Unknown when you didn’t get enough satellites, all your men died and the council expressed their disappointment in...

Let me tell you about Planetside 2. In fact, let me tell you about a single action in the war for Auraxis. We were three squads: 36 guys. All armed to the teeth with guns, grenades, rocket launchers, and yet more guns. We were mean, ready for a fight,...