games

  • Hands On with The Nintendo Switch

    Guest Writer Jamie Martin had a chance to get his hands on Nintendos latest handheld/console hybrid, but did it live up to his expectations? Yesterday I was given the chance to go hands-on with NIntendo’s latest hardware offering, the Switch. This was a big moment for me. Anyone who...
  • South Park: The Fractured But Whole – Delayed… Again…

    South Park: The Fractured But Whole, pause for laughter, has yet again been delayed. It was only last September when publisher Ubisoft moved the game from its scheduled December 2016 release window to early 2017. However the company’s recently released third-quarter sales results, suggest the game has been moved...
  • 5 Games That Don’t Need Gritty Film Adaptations

    Originally posted by Joe McCarthy Back in September last year, news broke that Firewatch was receiving a film adaptation. For those of you that haven’t played Firewatch, and you really should, it is probably best described as story driven-mystery-first person-adventure game. The game focuses on Henry, a middle-aged man...
  • Fishing for whales and what it has to do with the F2P model

    Guest Writer Dan Maloney joins us today to talk about whales… he probably thinks we’re a nature website… With every free to play game, the developer or publisher know full well that the average consumer will play it without spending a cent. They know for many of us, spending...
  • Resident Evil 7 Review

      New to Out of Lives as a guest author is Ross Falconer, Dropping by to give us his opinion on Capcom’s return to the Resident Evil Franchise… When the first pieces of promotional material for Resident Evil 7 were drip fed to us, the reaction was a mixed...
  • Out Of Joe’s Mind – A Unity Developers Diary

    First of all, I would like to thank outoflives.net for the opportunity to work with them on my content, this is my first week with the site and I’m looking forward to settling into my new home and getting to know the other contributors. Anyway, this week’s progress has been...
  • Xbox Games with Gold List To Date

    Each month, Microsoft makes two games free for Xbox Live Gold members to download for a limited time on both the Xbox One and Xbox 360. Since November 2015 the two free Xbox 360 games have also been backwards compatible with the Xbox One, meaning owners of Microsoft’s current...
  • Insomniac’s Spider-Man: The Chosen One?

    New to Out of Lives as a guest author is Alfred Rome. Here he takes a moment to give us his thoughts on the upcoming Spider-Man game from Insomniac. So if you haven’t heard the news already, it was revealed at Sony’s E3 presentation that the awesome Insomniac Games...
  • Ellipsis Review

    Ellipsis is the seventh studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Biffy Clyro, it’s also an action-packed avoid ’em up from Salmi Games. For anyone still unsure, this is a review for the recent Steam release of the latter. What is an Avoid ’em up? well, it’s pretty self-explanatory so I’m...