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All reviewsThe Callisto Protocol2022
2 out of 5 starsNote: The following article contains major spoilers for Silent Hill 2 and moderate spoilers for The Callisto Protocol. For reference, I played The Callisto Protocol on "Medium Security" difficulty. This page will be gone soon. Having wriggled out from underneath the thumb of the dastardly Fandom Inc., Giant Bomb is about to undergo a redesign, but not all features will survive that makeover. Most of the elements due…
Halo: Combat Evolved2001
4 out of 5 starsNote: The following review is for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition specifically and was originally uploaded on June 7th, 2014. The original version was deleted in a wiki re-organisation and this re-upload may have minor differences from the original. Back in 2011 there was entire decade separating the FPS genre from the release of the original Halo, but it didn’t feel like it. Part of this was the way the…
Halo 5: Guardians2015
4 out of 5 starsHalo 4's E3 2011 trailer. Back in 2012 Halo fans experienced a rather nerve-wracking run-up to the release of Halo 4. The mantle had been passed from Bungie Studios to 343 Industries and the burning question was whether 343 could successfully recreate the ubiquitous features and mechanics of the series that we’d come to know inside out. The worries weren’t just over a beloved franchise being placed into new hands,…
Gears of War: Judgment2013
4 out of 5 starsI'm self-admittedly not the world's biggest Gears enthusiast. My reception to the Gears of War series as a whole has been fairly lukewarm. I saw the original game as a decent offering from Epic and there’s no doubt that the cover system it pioneered was one of the most important additions to modern shooters. It made strategy and use of space in action games not just a matter of mastering and feeling powerful in the…
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All articlesField Report VI: Halo Studios at the End of 2025
Dec 21, 2025
The retirement of Halo Infinite's "Operations" was both unsurprising and unexpected...
Interview: Mike Klubnika, Indie Horror Developer
Nov 29, 2025
Note: The following article contains minor spoilers for Buckshot Roulette, Carbon Steel, CORE, Crank It!, and Tartarus Engine. Throughout the first half of the 2020s, Mike Klubnika has remained a stalwart fixture of indie horror. An Estonian modeller, musician, VFX artist, and programmer, Klubnika is the emcee of oppressive and direful nightmares plated with rusting walls and tangled black cabl...
Clowns as Algebra: Arithmetic in Balatro
Nov 23, 2025
Note: The following article contains mild spoilers for Balatro. Maths can't mind its own business. Most other academic fields comment on a single area of interest: living organisms, the events of the past, human communication, etc. These subjects can stick to each other: you can combine biology and chemistry into biochemistry or history and art into the history of art, but each topic has a clea...
Double or Nothing?: Buckshot Roulette and Lethal Gambling
Oct 31, 2025
Note: The following article contains moderate spoilers for Buckshot Roulette, as well as discussions of addiction and suicidal behaviour. If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts, contact a suicide prevention organisation near you. For those in the US, you can reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or find them online at 988lifeline.org . If you are in the UK, you can call The Samaritan...
Green: Decoding the Game Pass Price Hike
Oct 11, 2025
You know, there was a time when Microsoft added a dollar to the Xbox Game Pass price, and it was controversial, but no small number of us defended the decision. I was one of those apologists because between the launch of the service and that change, the company had stuffed the pass with video games like a ludological Christmas Turkey. I mean, maybe it wasn't fair in that anything a greedy trans...
Cyberspace: The Many Tribulations of Virtual Reality
Oct 4, 2025
During the last couple of console generations, it felt like we were on the cusp of emerging technologies transforming video games overnight. Motion controls, cloud computing, virtual reality, they were all meant to be a layer of chrome paint that would leave the medium unrecognisable and incomparable to what came before. In 2025, that techno-optimism feels like a faded dream. Many of us have be...
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