My long weekend was spent listening to unusual seasonal rain while I was cosy on my couch, wrapped in a blanket and beating the sh*t out of my enemies while jamming Mortal Kombat 11! The game releases today (Tuesday 23 April). I was given an early review copy on Thursday afternoon courtesy of Warner Bros. While I redeemed the code I didn't truly snuggle in to…

2019 has been a strange yet wonderful year for me so far, in some ways it feels like the year only began yesterday and in others, it feels like this year has already been born, potty trained, graduated from college and had a kid or two. At the beginning of the year, I was given the opportunity to go and study again, which I took -…

I often find myself thinking back to my childhood where my love for gaming was born. I can picture it like it was yesterday, a young Arielle lying on the floor on her tummy, controller in hand, in front of my parents old bubble TV (if you don't know what that is, it was basically the complete opposite of the curved screens of today) that used…

I need to admit something: I've been pretty obsessed with Apex Legends for the past few weeks. I've been less than complimentary about other battle royale games but this one is just... fun. I find it well made and I enjoy the gameplay with friends. Apex Legends drops you and two friends in to a Battle arena. You loot for weapons and supplies and battle other…

If you read my posts on the blog, you might already have picked up on the lie that I perpetuate most: that I don't play mobile games. When I said it the first time, it might still have been plausible but in all the posts I've written since, ABOUT mobile games, that plausibility is long gone. It's an odd one for me, because if I think…