Patrick Dane Archives

Pikmin is just a lovely series. It has lovely art, music, and bag loads of charm, a quality a lot of games forget about in the modern era. Well, out of no

I have this genuine belief that sports games have incredible potential as storytelling platforms. Their career modes can be great little incubators of

The success of Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg is staggering. His dominance in the YouTube space is massive and his impossibly growing audience has raised him

Minecraft: Story Mode is going to be very interesting to watch play out. Seeing how the core Minecraft audience adapts to playing a Telltale narrative

There is something kind of awful about seeing mario with a hand gun. Like a perversion of childhood memories through a parascope of bleak realities, it

I'm pretty excited for Total War: Warhammer. The idea of letting Creative Assembly free in the playbox of this lore is enticing. The scale of the fantasy

So this is a weird one. It turns out Ubisoft is going to be making their own Theme Park. As explained by Ubiblog, the park will be based in Kuala Lumpur,

So, there spoilers for the end of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain here, so if you don't to know any of that, begone from this place. Right, everyone

Coming out of E3, Horizon: Zero Dawn was probably the AAA game that impressed me most. The idea of a broken future where man has reverted back to cave

So, before I launch into this review, I need to provide a little context. I've neve completed a Metal Gear game. I've sampled them all, but have never

I feel like I've been hearing about an XCOM: Enemy Unknown PS VITA port for a while now. It makes a lot of sense too. The game is already on iOS, so

I must confess, Thorn was a favorite of mine in Destiny. The poison like drain of its bullets were extremely effective in the Crucible, making it one of

Seeing how big Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain sells is going to be fascinating. The series, while being a classic, has never seen humongous sales,

Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection is more or less PlayStation 4's biggest exclusive this holiday season. Acting as a primer for Uncharted 4, the

Castle Crashers was one of Xbox Live Arcade's first huge successes. The four player co-op beat 'em up was the perfect level of mayhem and razor sharp

It seems all racing games ever, have been working towards Forza 6. Or at least, that is what this new ad claims. In it, it shows the cover car for Forza

Last year, composer Marty O’Donnell was unceremoniously dumped by Bungie, who he had become synonymous with. In response, O’Donnell filed a lawsuit for

We learnt this week that in October we will be able to sign up to be part of the Star Wars: Battlefront beta. I encourage you to do so, in order try the

In a weird brand crossover, both Donkey Kong and Bowser are becoming part Amiibo, part Skylander toy this year. The toys-to-life cross over dream team

The Taken King is just around the corner, and as long time readers might know, I'm pretty excited about it. You don't have to wait until September 15th to

Need for Speed is making a roaring return this year with a reboot that is playing on the Underground vibes of yore. It looks pretty stellar, and I hope it

The Batman: Arkham Knight on PC story has been kind of nuts. The game notoriously launched in a terrible state, causing WB Games and Rocksteady to pull

The Last of Us: Left Behind was a resounding success for Naughty Dog. The DLC went on to go win awards for itself, and was huge critical success by all

I haven't been writing about the whole Jimmy Kimmel vs Gamers thing for the last few days, because... well, the idea of reporting on another instance of

So, Bethesda have been talking for a while about how big Fallout 4 is going to be, and I believe them. The studio excels at massive worlds and by all

SOMA, the new game from Amnesia: The Dark Decent maestros Frictional Games, has really snuck up on me. There hasn't been a ton of fanfare surrounding the

While I'm sure many of you will be knees deep in Fallout 4 come November, here is something else if the supposedly massive game doesn't scratch the

Well, this is interesting. Last night, after it being teased for the last three weeks, we finally got a look at the equipable sword in Destiny: The Taken

Dishonored 2 is high on my list of most anticipated games. The first is one of the best new IPs for the last five years, and seeing where Arkane go with

LawBreakers has been getting a lot of play recently, what with the game's reveal last week. I think it looks pretty fun and it will be fascinating to see