Matt Elliott
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United Kingdom
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Learning cheaters never prosper in WWE 2K22
Can the world's most pathetic wrestler capture the gold without winning a match fairly? → Read More
We asked a professional miniatures painter to try his hand at Moonbreaker
The turn-based tactics game claims to be a true digital miniatures experience—so we asked Squidmar to put it to the test. → Read More
We got a hairdresser to help us review Final Fantasy's ridiculous hairstyles
There was a time, in the not so distant past, when talking about hair in relation to Final Fantasy was as passé as opening a wrestling review with something about sweaty men in tights. But the gr → Read More
Printers are evil incarnate
Shall we begin with a history lesson?No, of course not. How about a self-satisfied tirade pretending to be a history lesson instead? German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg invented the first printing pre → Read More
Grand Cathay is Warhammer's dragon-loving powerhouse
To the far east of the Warhammer world, past the Mountains of Mourn and the Great Maw, lies the Empire of Grand Cathay: a vast, venerable nation possessed of the sort of swagger that can only come from being led by immortal, celestial dragons. Compared to Cathay, even the most established human empires in the Warhammer world look like mewling infants. Cathay’s history pre-dates the collapse of… → Read More
Do glory kills need to calm the hell down?
They don't all need to be so violent that John Wick would spit his cornflakes out. → Read More
Khorne is the raging musclehead of Warhammer's Chaos gods
Introducing the factions of Total War: Warhammer 3. → Read More
What videogame bedroom would you most like to spend the night in?
Never mind counting sheep or barbiturates: if you want to fall asleep, just watch your videogame avatar snuggle up in bed after an exhausting day of fetch quests. Detailed, inviting bedrooms are one of those disproportionately pleasing things in games, alongside flushable toilets, wafting curtains and the jump button. They all deserve to be celebrated: the luxurious, unusual, inviting and… → Read More
The hyper-intelligent precursor races which somehow still ballsed up the whole galaxy: Ranked
Where did it all go wrong for these extraterrestrial civilizations with grand ambitions? → Read More
Swimming in games sucks
The predictable video game mechanics are having a party. Crafting System has brought his own homebrew keg. Instafail Stealth Segment shared a flan before retiring to the corner to ignore everyone. Turret Section is starting a game of beer pong. The doorbell rings! Oh no. It's Swimming. He's brought his guitar, homemade cottage cheese, and his uncle, who's had enough of snowflakes and is just… → Read More
Enjoy some of PC gaming's most satisfying gifs
You’re probably familiar with r/oddlysatisfying—a subreddit of pleasantly arranged posts ranging from immaculate footprints in the snow to neatly interlocking floor tiles. Go and have a look and come back in six hours when you finally escape. What follows, then, is an attempt to find similarly satisfying bits from the world of PC gaming. There are fewer semi-frozen puddles, more decapitations,… → Read More
Help, I can't stop hoarding ammo in games
You probably have a junk drawer at home. In it you’ll find jars of foriegn currency, keys for unknown locks, and phone chargers for long-lost handsets. It’s the tat that gets ditched in a KonMari cleanup, but, until that point, it can be difficult to discard. A small voice in the cautious recesses of your mind tells you, ‘written correspondence still exists—better keep that Flamberge letter… → Read More
We wrote some ESRB content warnings that are actually useful
'Comic Mischief' and 'Mild Lyrics' don't really tell you about a game. Our suggested content descriptors do. → Read More
Let's all relive that time Jeff Goldblum played Dracula in an FMV Goosebumps game
The perfect Halloween game: '90s Goldblum and very bad (but oh-so-good) FMV. → Read More
9 things you'll only remember if you played vanilla World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft Classic is here, giving new and old players alike a chance to return to the gurgling infancy of the biggest MMO on the planet. For some people, it’ll be an entirely new experience; a chance to experience the-world-that-was, before fresh races and environmental cataclysm altered the landscape of the game. For others, it’s a chance to remind newer players exactly how good they’ve… → Read More
We found the worst MMO on Steam
A journey into the dark underbelly of Steam delivers us to the nightmarish world of Otherland. → Read More
The best Minecraft shaders
Make Minecraft tons prettier with our list of the 10 best Minecraft shaders. → Read More
The 7 best changes in Minecraft's biggest update ever
Minecraft’s Village & Pillage update is one of the biggest the game has had. It overhauls how villages work, adds a host of new blocks, and brings a brand new raid system that acts as a high-level combat encounter. You can read about every single new addition here, bugfixes and all, but in the interest of brevity I’ve picked seven new additions that are especially cool. I say ‘seven’, but few of… → Read More
Mortal Kombat 11 review
Mortal Kombat 11 sets the standard for storytelling in fighting games. → Read More
In defense of World of Warcraft's worst area
Few games contain true rites of passage—watershed moments you can share with other players, which elicit excitable, relatable anecdotes. Beating Ornstein and Smough in Dark Souls is an obvious one. Your first romance in Mass Effect is another. But for me, nothing defines an era in gaming quite like the meandering, broken, oddly brilliant experience of The Barrens in vanilla World of Warcraft.… → Read More