This month marks the 20th anniversary of Driver, a game whose innovations pioneered some of gaming’s biggest present-day trends. Sam Brooks takes a look at the groundbreaking game’s launch – and the series’ unfortunate decline. The year is 1999. The first Super Smash Bros. has come out, the fourth Tomb Raider game to use the same engine as the first … Read more
As it stands only ten games are currently banned from sale in New Zealand but should we be looking at how we censor games with more scrutiny? Oskar Howell writes. Content warning: Depictions of violence are alluded to in the piece. One of the first games I seriously played was Grand Theft Auto III. It was one of … Read more
Red Dead Redemption 2 is still creaming it and José Barbosa is still playing it and loving it. But the developer behind it is fast losing its sparkle. If you’d take a moment and have a good squiz around you, you’ll figure out whose image the world has been remade in. We’re living in … Read more
People are loving Red Dead Redemption 2 and its ultra-realistic depiction of the wild west. Nothing says western more than shooting people’s hats off, so we’ve decided to attempt a hat shooting challenge. Our video journalist @morbid_slag_angel_69 takes up the revolver! This post was first published November 22, 2018.
Lots of people can’t drive, including Haimona Gray. He talks to a few famous people who are similarly impaired, and gets behind the wheel in the only way he knows how: video games. My first memory of driving a car involves the 1994 Sega arcade classic, Daytona USA. As of writing, it remains the closest … Read more
With the advent of trophies – and online gaming – we’ve also seen the decline of cheats. Sam Brooks remembers a time in gaming when cheats were seen as nothing more than a bit of fun, and why that’s changed. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A. Even if you’ve never played … Read more
There’s a new Chief Censor in town. David Shanks, a former director and deputy CEO for the Ministry of Social Development, has barely been in the job three months so we decided to throw Eugenia Woo at him. Pity the job of those they call censors. It used to be so easy when there … Read more