• Impact Reviews: Superhot

    Superhot is an independently-made first-person shooter, first released in February 2016, which has been developed and published by Superhot Team. It places the player into a set of simulated gunfights within a computer terminal. The twist is that time only moves when you move, making the game a unique...
  • Sea Hero Quest and Dementia Research

    Sea Hero Quest is currently #14 on the App Store free apps list and for good reason. Whilst not only being an enjoyable time passer of a mobile game, it also helps researchers learn about how the brain works which will be used to help dementia research and future...
  • How to start playing Hearthstone

    Blizzard’s online tactical card game Hearthstone is currently undergoing a dramatic and exciting change that will make the game more approachable for newcomers. Firstly, the soon to be introduced ‘standard’ mode will rotate out a large pool of older powerful cards, decreasing the power gap between a new collection...
  • Impact Previews: Clustertruck Alpha Build

    Remember that really awesome fight scene in The Matrix Reloaded? The one on the highway, where Neo and crew jump from vehicle to vehicle fighting for their lives? Clustertruck is that. Clustertruck, formerly known as Highway Fight Squad, is a first person platformer puzzler, similar in style to something...
  • Three game console gimmicks that just didn’t work

    Gimmicks. Originally meaning an attractive and clever idea, this word has been used of late in the gaming sphere in a negative fashion in order to construe features that are either overplayed or underutilized. Today I will be using the word in both fashions, to describe my personal three...
  • Impact Plays: Dark Souls, Prepare to Die Edition

    Dark Souls III is already available to gamers in Japan (as well as sneaky Xbox One players worldwide) and will become available in the UK incredibly soon. The building excitement for the latest Fromsoftware release seemed the perfect excuse for me to explore what was so brilliant about one...
  • Five Games I Played When I Should Have Been Playing The Witcher 3

    I got The Witcher 3 back in August after a Summer-long love affair with the first two games. It is incredible, wonderfully made, full of things to do and full of beautifully told stories. It is also monstrously large. Intimidatingly so. And when something is that big, and tells...