How The Witcher 3 Kept Me Faithful Until Blood and Wine
I’ve never become invested in DLC. Some of it has annoyed me, and the infamous Elder Scrolls IV “Horse Armour Pack” serves as a keystone reminder of overpriced content. However,…
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What We’re Playing – 27th May 2016
Being passionate sorts, we at Power Up Gaming like to pontificate about video games. We tend to discuss their forms, themes and technicalities, whiling away the wee hours as we…
Isolation, Death and the Grotesque: An Interview with Drinkbox Studios
Severed, Drinkbox Studios' latest game on the PlayStation Vita, is a marvel in terms of its dark storytelling and ambience. This week, we were lucky enough to sit down with…
Ranking the Dark Souls III Bosses
Dark Souls III is a difficult game. One of the most difficult parts of this difficult game are the difficult bosses. However, our two champions of ash, Scott Russell and…
Is The FPS Market Ready To Change?
For almost a decade, Call Of Duty has reigned supreme as the First Person Shooter king of the hill. Ever since 2007’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the series…
What We’re Playing – 20th May 2016
The temperature's rising. The barometer's getting low. According to all sources, a darkened room is the place to go, because video game season is upon us once more! May seems…
Dear Nintendo: Please Step Up Your Virtual Console Game
Nintendo make their fair share of questionable decisions; there's no denying that. Moving the latest Legend of Zelda's release date to 2017, taking Fox McCloud out of his Arwing to…
Practicing Glitchcraft: Undertale
We all love Undertale. The writing, the branching paths, the battles, the music. And we're going to love disrupting the unnatural order of Undertale's world just as much. On June…
Have Blizzard Made Overwatch Console-Friendly?
Blizzard’s synonymous relationship with PC has gotten more and more blurred in recent years. Diablo 3 and its expansion pack, Reaper of Souls, was the company’s first console supported title…
What We’re Playing – 13th May 2016
If there's one thing we know about here at Power Up Gaming, it's the optimum temperature for storing salad cream in the fridge. If there are two things that we…
Is The Legend of Zelda Series Ready To Be Open World?
When the trailer for the new Legend of Zelda game appeared, most people got pretty hyped pretty quickly. Not only was the game visually stunning, with some fantastic action and environment…
The Starters For Pokémon Sun and Moon Are Uninspired
Before we begin, I feel that I should preface this with a short disclaimer. As someone who doesn’t have a shred of artistic ability, I don’t usually like to criticize…
Practicing Glitchcraft: Star Wars Battlefront
Every time something with the words "star" and "wars" in its name is released - game, movie, whatever - all of humanity becomes a mob of mouth-foaming nerds. Search your…
What We’re Playing – 6th May 2016
The term "video games" is a funny old phase. Personally, the staff here at Power Up Gaming prefer to call them "interactive computer processes". We also prefer the taste of Pepsi…
The Star Wars Experience – PUG’s Star Wars Video Game Moments
Greetings Padawans and denizens of the galaxy! Today at Power up Gaming we are celebrating Star Wars Day the best way we know how - by talking about our experiences…
7 Musicians Who Need to Compose Video Game Music
Koji Kondo, Martin O'Donnell, Junichi Masuda, Harry Gregson Williams, and Nobuo Uematsu. While it would be a stretch to refer to any of these people as household names, we can be…
Practicing Glitchcraft: Star Fox Adventures
It took forever to arrive, but Star Fox Zero is finally upon us. For that reason, this Practicing Glitchcraft is all about the young McCloud, specifically in Star Fox Adventures…
What We’re Playing – 29th April 2016
It's the weekend! Time to ditch work, abandon all chores, ignore your social obligations, and settle down with some video games. If you're looking for some ideas for what to play while…
Free Your Mind – The PlayStation Neo Is Not So Bad
Console gaming has always been a business of hardware revisions and minor tweaks. Several years after the launch of a console, a new slimline version is usually released to replace…
Is Quantum Break Remedy’s Definitive Title?
Well... sort of. Remedy, the highly revered action shooter development studio, has had the luxury of owning its own creative freedom to form the studio’s idiosyncrasies over the past 15…
