Articles by Alice O'Connor

The race towards the end of the year continues, and we’ve started talking amongst ourselves about our favourite games from 2020. This is challenging both because there have been a lot of great games this year, and because none of us can remember anything that happened before August. We’ll do our research and name our […]

It’s been a busy old week, between the launches of some big games and two new consoles. That’s ‘the next generation’ underway then, though some will say it doesn’t really pick up until the Xbox grows a beard. What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’re clicking on!

It’s great fun to pootle around GTA Online, taking in the sights and doing casual crimes. It’s less fun to grind the millions of virtuabucks you need for cool crimetoys and hot crimefashion, especially when Rockstar also sell the in-game cash for real money and it can sure feel like they’re pushing you to buy. […]

The latest wizard in League Of Legends is Seraphine, a pink-haired pop star who has also sang with League’s out-of-fiction virtual girl group, K/DA. Yesterday, a woman named Stephanie alleged that the character is based on her, and she’s not happy about it. She says she had briefly dated a Riot employee who sure gave […]

In the run-up to yesterday’s launch of Destiny 2: Beyond Light, many players were excited for the return of familiar people and places. Will Randal the Vandal be up to his old tricks? Will the Exo Stranger say what she said six years ago? But Destiny 1 wasn’t on PC so I didn’t play it, […]

Take-Two Interactive, the owners of Rockstar and 2K, have confirmed they will buy Codemasters in a £759 million deal. Codies are the company behind racing series like F1 and Dirt, though they’ve dabbled in other genres too, who also recently bought Project Cars devs Slightly Mad. Take-Two said last week that they were in talks, […]

In the dying days of Destiny 2‘s latest season, I blew my last shot at its coolest reward by blowing my own face off like a scrub. It’s not a fancy gun or hat that’s so coveted, simply a decoration for your menus. If you dove into the neon tunnels and metaphysical deserts of the […]