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Making a case for linear games

We have reached a point in today’s gaming market where buzzwords like “open-world” have become something of an expectation, rather than a novelty. Whilst this is not necessarily a standard used across the board, as yet, it is certainly the…

11 Highlights from Insomnia 62

This weekend, myself and a band of brave warriors from the Invision Game Community war camp set out on an epic expedition to the NEC in Birmingham to brave the hordes of fans descending on the UK’s biggest video games…

The Future of the “Atelier Series” (is there any?)

With the recent release of the “20th Anniversary game” from Gust and of course my review of that game in particular, I can’t help but wonder if I was playing a Neptunia game or an Atelier one. The fact of…

Could Tomb Raider Bring back my love for Single Player Games?

The Tomb Raider series has been a huge success since the release of the first game, Tomb Raider, in 1996. Developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive (now Square Enix), the game was released on the Sega Saturn,…

Fortnite Has a Death Date

It is truly amazing how popular Fortnite Battle Royale has become. It is one of those stories that we are all going to talk about years from now. A story about how a game that started out as a wave-based…

Capital Wasteland is… Wasted

Some readers will already have heard the sad news that Capital Wasteland, the Fallout 4 mod, looks like it’s not going to be completed after all because of “voice issues”. If you weren’t aware of the project then it was…

Why should we care: Achievements and Trophies

As long as there have been games, there has been challenges, achievements and tasks that you wouldn’t normally do within a normal playthrough. Completing the original Mario without ever dying, rushing through Sonic in the fastest time, collecting all the…

The Problem with Zelda: Breath of the Wild

I’m gonna start this article with a preface. And I’m also gonna preface that preface with this preface because it needs to be said and also because you need to check your Semantic Satiation privilege. You lot need to chill.…

Invision Game Community Partners up with PAAStreaming

Its been around 5 years now since we started this venture, maybe a little longer. Invision started as a guild in World of Warcraft back in 2010 – 2011, it had a forum and a lot of activity from its guild…

PlayStation 5 in 2020 … Trust me!

Of course there is always going to be the “he said, she said” rumours that go around the internet about console wars and who has the best games and who is going to come out with the next best thing.…