Impact Plays

With the newest installment of the Fire Emblem series, Fire Emblem Fates, on the horizon it is only appropriate to go back and take a closer look at Fire Emblem Awakening. This is the 2012 hit Simulation Role Playing Game (SRPG) released by Nintendo and developed by Intelligent Systems...

No longer do we have to partake in physical activity within video games as “soccer meets driving once again in the long-awaited, physics-based multiplayer-focused sequel to Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars! Pysonix’s latest title has over five million downloads since its July 7th release, and it’s easy to understand why. “The...

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is the latest instalment in the Witcher series, developed by CD Projekt RED, which follows Geralt of Rivia on his adventures in a fictional high fantasy world. This particular game centres on Geralt’s search for his young mentee Ciri who has gone missing and, Geralt fears, has...

Tom Evans just finished Antichamber, the first person puzzle game released on PC in January 2013. He may have picked it up late, but he highly recommends you do so now. Nowadays, many of the details of an upcoming video game, or indeed any entertainment media, are frequently spoiled...

“Eat cells smaller than you and don’t get eaten by the bigger ones.” This simple, one-line rulebook is all you need to know about the free-to-play Agar. As you might (or might not) guess from the title, you take charge of a small cell in a huge petri dish...

Alien: Isolation is the latest game to tie in with the highly successful film franchise of the same name. Thankfully it departs completely from the formula of the last game, Colonial Marines, as first-person shooting is replaced by a genre far more befitting of the films; survival horror. Minimalist...

Have you ever come across the concept of the Ship of Theseus? It describes a thought experiment concerning a ship, belonging to the Greek mythical figure Theseus. As the ship endured years of being displayed in Athens, certain components of it grew dilapidated and time-worn. Continually these were replaced...