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A Jaunt Into The Future Part 1: A Most Peculiar Inheritance 

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Our story begins with Lucius P. Merriweather making a most bizarre discovery in The Manor.

Lewis Packwood 15 October 2017 A Jaunt Into The Future, Uncategorized

Spiffing Reads: Blade Runner, TumbleSeed and the connection between Moomins and elephants

This week on Spiffing Reads we start off by looking back on a wonderful video-game version of Blade […]

Lewis Packwood 13 October 2017 Spiffing Reads

Zelda Breath of The Wild amiibo unboxing 

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The Breath of the Wild Zelda amiibo is here! How does she look?

Lewis Packwood 10 October 2017 Amiibos

Show us your game collection, Alexander!

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Unfortunately, this request to show off my game collection has caught me in the middle of a move, […]

Alexander Connington 9 October 2017 Show Us Your Game Collection!

Spiffing Reads: Nintendo Switch, EVE Online and the curative powers of Zelda

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This week, we start Spiffing Reads with yet another crazy tale from the fascinating space world of EVE […]

Lewis Packwood 6 October 2017 Spiffing Reads

Show us your game collection, Professor GreilMercs!

It’s with a mixture of pride and shame that I take my turn and present the third installment […]

ivgacademy 3 October 2017 Show Us Your Game Collection!

SNES Mini unboxing

There she is, what a beauty. I love that they’ve faithfully recreated the original SNES packaging. Anyway, let’s […]

Lewis Packwood 30 September 2017 Features

Spiffing Reads: Ultima Online, Destiny 2 woes and pesky rats

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All hail the return of Spiffing Reads! Every Friday we’ll round up the best writing on video games […]

Lewis Packwood 29 September 2017 Spiffing Reads

You like Castlevania, don’t you? Part IV

Symphony of the Night is not just hands-down the greatest Castlevania game of all time, but I also consider […]

Virtuanaut 23 September 2017 Features, Reviews

Squishy Metroid amiibo unboxing

They’re finally here! And a day early in fact – I found Samus Aran and Squishy Metroid on […]

Lewis Packwood 15 September 2017 Amiibos, Features

Super Play is back and more beautiful than ever

Well this is a lovely thing. Bundled with the latest issue of Retro Gamer is a 52-page, one-off […]

Lewis Packwood 14 September 2017 Features

Show us your game collection, Richenbaum!

I’m not one to start bragging about my toys unsolicited, but Sir Lucius was kind enough to ask, […]

Virtuanaut 13 September 2017 Show Us Your Game Collection!

Why XCOM embodies the anxieties of modern gamers

I’ve been playing through XCOM: Enemy Within recently, and I’ve been struck by just how closely it resembles […]

Lewis Packwood 12 September 2017 Features

Show Us Your Game Collection, Lucius!

We thought it might be interesting if the Most Agreeable writers gave guided tours of our game collections. […]

Lewis Packwood 6 September 2017 Features, Show Us Your Game Collection!

Some of our favourites from Fire Emblem Heroes

We’ve already waxed poetic on this site about our love of Fire Emblem Heroes, the surprisingly fun and super addictive smartphone […]

ivgacademy 4 September 2017 Features

Free-to-Play Games, Here to Stay

Free-to-play (aka F2P) gaming has been around for almost 20 years, and it’s clear that it’s here to […]

ivgacademy 15 August 2017 Features

Corrin amiibo times two

Hooray! Oh happy day! Two more amiibo have plopped through my door! This time it’s some double Corrin […]

Lewis Packwood 23 July 2017 Amiibos

You like Castlevania, don’t you? Part III

Super Castlevania IV finally brought Castlevania to the 16-bit world and did quite a fine job of it. Konami really went all out […]

Virtuanaut 22 July 2017 Features, Reviews

The best original Xbox games to play on your Xbox One

The announcement at E3 this year that OG Xbox games would be made backwards compatible with Xbox One […]

Lewis Packwood 13 July 2017 Best-of Lists, Features

Why does everyone hate GAME?

I wrote a feature called ‘Why does everyone hate GAME?’ for Kotaku UK the other day, and it’s already […]

Lewis Packwood 26 June 2017 Features

Celica arrived!

Well, my Celica amiibo actually arrived about a week ago, but what with all the hoo-ha about E3, […]

Lewis Packwood 18 June 2017 Amiibos

5 memorable bits from E3 2017

As Lucius mentioned, I sort of already went over the games I was happiest to see at this […]

ivgacademy 16 June 2017 E3, E3 2017

The five best games of E3 2017

E3 is finally over, after a seemingly endless stream of barely watchable conferences, Earth-shattering game announcements, utterly desirable […]

Lewis Packwood 16 June 2017 Best-of Lists, E3, E3 2017

All of the amiibo announced at E3 2017

Well, Nintendo certainly went all out on the amiibo announcements at this year’s E3. Here’s a look at […]

Lewis Packwood 15 June 2017 Amiibos, E3, E3 2017

My E3 cheers and boos so far

Well, the first day of Nintendo Christmas has come and gone, and as usual there were some disappointments, […]

ivgacademy 14 June 2017 E3, E3 2017

E3 2017: 5 new and exciting things from the Nintendo Spotlight

At a svelte 30 minutes, Nintendo’s E3 presentation was far shorter than its rivals – but it packed […]

Lewis Packwood 14 June 2017 E3, E3 2017

E3 2017 aftershocks: Hands on with the Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite demo

I’ve been aware of Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite for some time now, but have never really given it […]

Virtuanaut 14 June 2017 E3, E3 2017

OH MY GOD IT’S A METROID BONANZA

I… I don’t even have the words… First there was this little bombshell, dropped in Nintendo’s Spotlight presentation: […]

Lewis Packwood 13 June 2017 E3, E3 2017

E3 2017: 5 more new and exciting things from the Sony Conference

There were surprisingly few new games revealed at Sony’s conference, with the majority of trailers being new footage […]

Virtuanaut 13 June 2017 E3, E3 2017

That Beyond Good & Evil 2 trailer…

So, apparently the director of Beyond Good & Evil 2 was…not entirely truthful when he claimed that the […]

Virtuanaut 13 June 2017 E3, E3 2017

Xbox One X: why choice isn’t always a good thing

Project Scorpio has a new name: Xbox One X, aka Kiss Hug Kiss (XOX). The new machine is […]

Lewis Packwood 12 June 2017 E3, E3 2017

E3 2017: 5 more new and exciting things from the Bethesda Conference

Oh geez. I didn’t even realize Bethesda was doing their show ahead of the actual start of E3 too! […]

Virtuanaut 12 June 2017 E3, E3 2017

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