Destiny: The Taken King – Refreshing
The new Destiny expansion has been live for almost a fortnight now, and the full scale of the expansion is coming to light. Yet, despite all the data-mining and conspiracy-theorycrafting (which I’ll come onto later), The Taken King has categorically renewed my love for the game.
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I am obsessed with the FIFA academy system. No matter what new features EA may deign to introduce throughout the life of the next-generation consoles and beyond, as long as they don’t faff around with the academy system too much they’ll have a loyal customer in me. Sure, I like playing online with friends or competitively when people are over, but it’s the youth system that keeps me coming back for more. It’s beyond addictive. As a Manchester United fan I’ll never shake the romanticism and nostalgia that came with the class of ’92.
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It’s been roughly a fortnight since I finally boarded the plane with two suitcases and a hard-fought visa to start teaching in Seoul, South Korea. I’ve visited my brother (who I’m living with) here on several occasions, so the city itself didn’t scare me. I have, however, never taught children before. I have no education degree, no relevant qualifications from back home, but most other foreigners who come here to teach are exactly the same. It’s nuts.
Warlords of Draenor – A Fresh Start
World of Warcraft has been my vice for the past six years, and has commanded a lot of my time. Once I shook off the totally legitimate preconception that buying the game would be problematic for my teenage education, I dived in head first. And I loved it.
Seriously.
12 Things Which Will Happen Before You Explore All Of No Man’s Sky
No Man’s Sky has been in the spotlight since it took centre stage at the VGX awards, with more information being revealed by developers Hello Games suggesting that it will have 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets. If you spend a mere second on each one, it will take around 5 billion years for you to discover them all.
That’s a really long time, so here’s a list of things that could happen in the meantime.
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Rainbow Six Siege – Thinking Outside The Walls
Rainbow Six Siege is the intense, punishing instalment in the franchise that it so desperately needs to bring it back to the forefront alongside some of the best team first person shooter titles out there. The games, fondly remembered for how damn difficult they were, lay on the precipice of being forgotten about altogether following the empty announcement of Rainbow Six Patriots three years ago.
Don’t worry though – your prayers have been answered.
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Battlefield: Hardline – Such Concept, Much Prototype
Okay, so Electronic Arts haven’t had too much real stuff to showcase at the biggest gaming convention of the year, and that’s fine because all their games look really nice and I’m sure they’ll all be lovely when they’re finished.
Wait, that’s not really how it works, is it?
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FIFA 15 – Now With Bouncier Crossbars
After spending ages trying to finally get IGN’s stream for E3 sorted, my screen flew straight into Electronic Arts showcasing their up-and-coming sports titles.
Theatrical hyperbole aside, the next FIFA looks like it will be good fun.
“People contact us and they say, we need your help – we just can’t say no.”
Video gaming is a lot of things to a lot of different people. For some it offers the chance to kick back and relax, for others it offers the chance for heroic escapism. But what if you couldn’t enjoy games the way that your friends could? What if that option wasn’t available to you?
That’s where the charity Special Effect come in.
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