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Soapbox: One Year Later, Call of Duty: Warzone Has Consumed Me Share: Looking back on the comments I made in my Hands On piece for Call of Duty: Warzone, which celebrates its one year anniversary today, is a strange experience. While I thought what Infinity Ward had to offer at the time was completely fine in its own right, I was concerned by its overt simplicity and the lack of focus on looting in the early game of each and every match. I then signed that piece off by claiming "this is not a Battle Royale offering we can see ourselves sticking with". Except, one year later, I'm still playing...

Soapbox: Man, Remember Black? Share: Criterion Games was absolutely on fire in the early noughties. Having made an incredible arcade racing series — the brilliant Burnout, of course — it decided to turn its hand to a totally new genre. This is something that you don't see too much of; usually, a studio finds its comfort zone and sticks to it. The team could easily have made a straight sequel to Burnout Revenge, and it would've been wonderful. However, Criterion took a creative risk, slamming the brakes on racers and turning its attention to the world of shooters. I remember being taken ab...

Sammy feels like the series lacks Sony's full weight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNv229jCChA It was a coincidence th...

Soapbox: There's One Thing I Want To See In Tomorrow's Direct, And It's Pullblox Share: To be a Nintendo fan is to be intimately familiar with disappointment. Each one of us has a particular game or series that we cling to like Rose on the Titanic door, desperately hoping that Papa Ninty will eventually notice us and give us the sequel (or at least a remake) we crave. It's their fault for making such good games in such quantity, really - and for abandoning them in favour of adding another Fire Emblem character to Smash Bros. No, I'm not bitter.

Creating Fairness in Publishing Feb 12, 2021 As I began writing this column, I thought about writing it as an appeal to publishers, literary agents, ghostwriters, and editors to dig deep into their humanity when considering opportunities to work with brown and Black authors. The reality is that the works of brown and Black authors are much more closely scrutinized than those of other authors. Greater emphasis is put on their ready-made follower base, celebrity, and social standing than on the quality of the writing itself. The lack of interest or consideration in building a brown a...