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  *******Red Dead Redemption  and it’s excellent  Undead Nightmare******* Red Dead Redemption  and it’s excellent  Undead Nightmare  DLC have finally…finally…been ported to PC after years of fan requests. It’s been an odd omission until now – all the recent  GTA ‘s and even  Red Read Redemption II  are already on Steam, so that this has been corrected at last is good news indeed. Even better news? The now 14 year old title still shows up most modern games in its execution of open world enjoyment, relatable and affecting characters, and simply fun gameplay and experiences. It’s a little aged in comparison to Rockstar’s own later work ( GTA V  and  Red Dead ‘s own sequel) but then it’s also awesome to see this little slice of history in 2024-vision, with features such as HDR and DLSS making it look and play better than ever. We play as the enigmatic John Marston, who players of the sequel-cum-prequel will already know as a ga...

  ********** Zelda game********* Hyrule has never looked or sounded this pretty. Instead of bombarding you with sweeping orchestral themes (though, yes, of course   those   songs are included), you’re allowed to hear the ambiance. Link’s footsteps are audible (and things like rain storms will mask your footsteps), and grass will whoosh in the breeze. Occasionally a deep, foreboding piano will chime in, letting you know there may be danger ahead. But the world is allowed to breathe, just as you the player can too. Visually it’s as though a watercolour is being painted before your eyes. There is so much to take in, from the icy cold mountain tops, to the deep rivers that can sweep you away. There are villages to explore that are full of NPCs who will offer up wisdom and quests, and there are optional boss encounters that will test you to breaking point. All of these things take place in a verdant, intoxicating world. Shooting a fire arrow into a red barrel to im...

******Game Review: Summer of ‘58****** (This review contains minor story spoilers.) Summer of ‘58 is a first-person supernatural horror game where the player takes on the role of Alex Morton, a video blogger who investigates haunted locations across the globe at the behest of her fanbase. In this case, the location is Yunost, an abandoned Young Pioneer camp somewhere in the former Soviet Union. Over the course of several chapters, which are each divided between day and night sequences, you will uncover the camp’s dark history, shed light on the tragic events that happened there, and perhaps take a piece of it with you. Young Pioneer Camps were popular in the USSR throughout the 20th century, receiving as many as nine million children at their peak popularity in the 1970s. Think of them as a Soviet equivalent to the summer camps of Western scouting organizations, though instead of the Boy Scouts of America or 4H defining the values, it was commitment to the ideals...

  ******Game Review: IMMORTALITY (2022)***** From the first moments, IMMORTALITY   feels like something that will linger with the player long after the credits roll. The vibrant red of Marissa Marcel’s hair, the hammy quips of the late night host, the smoke-stained swagger of the actors and production crew: we’re picking up pieces of a story with intricate, delicate layers, many of which will crumble before our eyes along the way. Soon, players will have a half-finished sketch of a story, and those initial realizations and inklings that burn into existence from the early clips will reverberate through the whole of the project, giving a sense of the size and scope of what is to come. Her Story Come True************* IMMORTALITY puts the player in the role of a nameless viewer scrolling through an archive of video clips from three unreleased films, all starring the fictional Hollywood starlet, Marissa Marcel ( Manon Gage ), ...