John Sweeney

John Sweeney is a terribly British man with a background in engineering. He writes long-form editorial content with analysis of gaming, games media and internet culture. He also does the occasional video game retrospective with a weekly column about Magic the Gathering thrown in for good measure. He also does most of our interviews for some reason, we have no idea why. A staunch supporter of free speech and consumer rights; skeptical of agenda driven media and suspicious of unaccoutable authority but always hopeful for change.

Gamers and Mental Health: You Are Not Alone

On January 4th 2015, I lost my fa­ther to a long bat­tle with can­cer. The pe­ri­od since then has been chal­leng­ing, with oth­er fam­i­ly ill­ness­es & tur­bu­lence. Along the way I’ve been di­ag­nosed with clin­i­cal de­pres­sion, some­thing I’ve strug­gled with […]

Pack-in Game of the Month: Knytt

Knytt is a free in­de­pen­dent­ly de­vel­oped plat­former de­vel­oped by Nifflas’ Games (Swedish in­die de­vel­op­er Nicklas Nygren). You play a lit­tle monkey-man ab­duct­ed by aliens who must re­pair the crashed ship to get home. You’ll spend maybe an hour or two […]

E3 2016: The Shifting Role of E3

This year’s E3 more than ever had most of the biggest an­nounce­ments re­vealed be­fore the events them­selves.  Going into the show we knew that both con­sole man­u­fac­tur­ers were plan­ning up­grad­ed it­er­a­tions of their con­sole, both of which seemed fo­cused on […]

Grim Dawn Review

(Review based on V 1.0.0.1 — V 1.0.0.3 of Grim Dawn. Reviewer pur­chased game from Steam. Grim Dawn is ex­clu­sive to the PC. The ver­sion of the game played was pur­chased by the re­view­er.) Update 05/11/2016: a pre­vi­ous ver­sion of this ar­ti­cle mis­tak­en­ly list­ed the number […]

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