• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

    December 14, 2016 - By 

    Rogue One: A Star Wars Story feels like the highest budget fan film you’ve ever seen. You might think that sounds like an insult, but I mean it as the highest of compliments. It’s the spirit of Star Wars channelled through the lens of a World War 2 film. Rogue One takes place before A New Hope, referencing events mentioned in the opening crawl of the first film. A squad of rebels are tasked with swiping the plans for the Death Star to help the Rebel Alliance destroy the Empire’s most deadly weapon. The story fills in some of the gaps…

  • Owlboy (PC)

    November 16, 2016 - By 

    In many ways, Owlboy isn’t a game about success, it’s a game about those little failures which define everyday life. It’s the story of Otus, a plucky apprentice owl who is mute and from the get go, not very good at doing his job. The Owls are bird-human hybrids that guard a world of floating sky islands from sky pirates and other trouble, but as we see in the opening of the game, Otus isn’t exactly cut out for all this malarkey. He can’t fly very well, and he makes stupid mistakes. The kind of mistakes we’re all prone to,…