Posts with tag: No Man’s Sky
Posted at 17:57 on 3rd January 2024
Previously: 2018 – 2019 – 2020 – 2021 – 2022 You know the drill by now. Aside from finally upgrading from a PS4 Pro to a PS5, my playing habits were broadly similar to last year – dipping into the (surprisingly decent) Playstation Plus offerings with minimal interest in new games released this year (with […]
Go to article →Posted at 23:15 on 31st December 2022
Previously: 2018 – 2019 – 2020 – 2021 Once again the year draws to a close and it’s time to do my homework for the internet. I realise I managed to avoid playing nearly all the big releases this year. This isn’t a boast. I’m not really a Dark Souls guy so didn’t bother with […]
Go to article →Posted at 15:00 on 18th September 2022
My latest contribution to the Maraoke video game karaoke songlist – first performed 17/09/2022. Self-explanatory really – a song about the merits of jetpacks in games, starting with (probably?) the earliest game to feature them. “Jetpac” – after “Get Back” by The Beatles Stampers made a game that won the Golden Joystick Back in 1983 […]
Go to article →Posted at 18:36 on 2nd January 2022
Previously: 2018 – 2019 – 2020 2021 was not exactly a vintage year for games. It felt like the big publishers were playing ‘wait and see’, and the none of the handful of tentpole releases that did make it out this year really piqued my interest. As with last year, I’ve mainly been playing established […]
Go to article →Posted at 18:35 on 30th January 2021
Time once again for a round up of the notable games I played in the last year. 2020 was a pretty solid year for games (if nothing else), although lacking any decisive raising of the bar in the AAA space (except Half-Life Alyx I suppose, which I don’t have the kit to play yet). Still, […]
Go to article →Posted at 18:16 on 27th April 2020
In the wake of the massive ‘Beyond’ and ‘Synthesis’ updates last year, Hello Games have continued to regularly update No Man’s Sky with smaller, weirder new features. So far we’ve been surprised with the ByteBeat music generation system, as well as new class of bizarre biomechanical starships, and most recently, the Minotaur Exo Mech. The […]
Go to article →Posted at 18:30 on 5th January 2020
Here are some of the standout games I played in 2019. It wasn’t a particularly notable year for new releases, in part because the current console generation is winding down. I ended up playing a mixture of small scale indie games (mostly on Switch) and revisiting games I’d missed from the last few years – […]
Go to article →Posted at 01:12 on 11th January 2019
I didn’t play a very wide variety of games last year: it was a pretty moribund year for big releases; most of my gaming time was dominated by three of the games listed below; and I don’t play a lot of new games per year in any case, not being a journalist, IGF judge, student […]
Go to article →Posted at 18:13 on 29th May 2017
As previously noted, the ninth GameCamp event took place earlier this month at LSBU in South London. I was invited onto the GameCamp committee this year, so for the first time got to see the whole process of how the event is organised. I’m massively grateful to all the organisers for the time and effort […]
Go to article →Posted at 18:19 on 19th February 2017
My latest contribution to the Marioke video game karaoke canon – first performed 17/02/2017. “Foundation Update” – after “Intergalactic” by Beastie Boys Intergalactic, planetary, planetary, intergalactic ( × 2 ) Foundation update, mandatory, mandatory, foundation update ( × 2 ) Sean Murray‘s invention ( × 11 ) Well now, don’t you diss No Man’s Sky […]
Go to article →Posted at 20:12 on 4th September 2016
Editor’s Note: This is all insanely out of date now! The new quest lines introduced in the 2017 Atlas Rises update do a much better job of explaining all the game’s (now greatly expanded) systems during play. The information below is only of historical interest now. No Man’s Sky is a fantasy game about being […]
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