Adam Whiles

Adam Whiles

His favorite games are no hall of fame classics. Lover of the bizarre and weird, cult classics and anything Japanese are his bread and butter. He'd sooner have another game from Yoko Taro, than Halo or Uncharted. He believes in the immense potential for video games and the stories they can tell.
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Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Full PS4 Review

The Final Passage (Hopefully) Kingdom Hearts 2.8 final chapter prologue (try saving that three times fast) is sort of like the extras never before seen bonus DVD to 1.5 + 2.5’s complete collection. The latter is the perfect gift for…

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Kingdom Hearts Union X a Year Later

Keeping the grind going Just over a year ago the Japanese exclusive Kingdom Hearts browser game Union X (chi) finally saw a western release on the app store as Unchained X. A year on and yet another (and just as…

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Drawn to Death PS4 Review

Drawn to Death is that 2 star rated game you see on the PSN store when you’re lazily scrolling through the backlog. That completely average, forgettable, attempt at a classic throwback that just ends up forgotten in the lists of…

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Sinoalice Gameplay Trailer Revealed

Sinoalice – Weird skull guy brings anime girls and murderous fairy tale characters to the App Store Sinoalice, the upcoming free to play mobile game, directed by Yoko Taro of the Nier and Drakengard series and published by Square Enix…

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Paladins PS4 FPS Beta Preview

Cola, but not quite Coke. Doing an internet search of Paladins will elicit two prominent results, comparisons to Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch and complaints about changes to its monetization system. But what’s also on the cards for the game is an…

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Nier Automata JRPG Review

What do you fight for? Nier Automata shouldn’t exist. From all logical standpoints the chances of a sequel to the 2010 cult classic seem absurd, with its parent developer Cavia gone and the series for the most part reaching a…

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Northgard RTS Early Access Preview

Yeah, I remember Age of Empires. The strategy genre is a hard one to penetrate these days. For every StarCraft 2 or Civilization, there are innumerable imitators and copy-cats. Steam is probably the biggest source of this, with many old-school…

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5 Most Exciting Releases for February 2017

January kicked 2017 off with a number of quality releases, with Yakuza 0, Resident Evil 7 and Kingdom Hearts 2.8, starting the year off well. Coming into our second month of the year, the releases show no sign of slowing…