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Far Cry Primal: making friends

I am playing through Far Cry Primal and writing down my adventures, while also providing commentary on the game’s depiction of life ca. 12,000 years ago. After a brief stint in Tutorial Land, I rescued a young woman named Shayla before setting out to find our missing shaman, Tensay. In a vision quest, I was proclaimed ‘Beast Master’ […]

Far Cry Primal: spirit guide

This is the third in my series of game diaries as I make my way through Ubisoft’s new game, Far Cry Primal. Previously, we found ourselves in 10,000 BC, fought a sabre-toothed cat and rescued a young woman called Shayla, who is a member of our Wenja tribe. When we left off last time, Shayla had […]

Far Cry Primal: rescue

Ubisoft recently released Far Cry Primal, a game set in Central Europe ca. 10,000 BC. As the player, I assume the role of Takkar, a member of the Wenja tribe. Last time, I started up the game and found myself in Tutorial Land. Having eaten and rested, I made a club, set fire to it, and […]

Far Cry Primal: Tutorial Land

There have been many games in the Far Cry series, but the latest entry caught my eye for an obvious reason: Far Cry Primal switches the contemporary setting for the year 10,000 BC. That’s right. This is a game where you play as a human at the very end of the last Ice Age, when the Late […]

FarCry Primal (game diary 1)

The FarCry series started out as a first person shooter that gave you lots of freedom (and space to manoeuvre) to accomplish your objectives, but it was essentially a level-driven experience. With the first sequel, the series turned open world. I especially enjoyed FarCry 2 for its African setting and thought FarCry 3 was interesting, […]

Firewatch

Firewatch is a beautiful game, developed by Campo Santo. It’s a bit hard to describe what it is exactly. It’s a first-person game, but you never hold a gun and you don’t have to kill anyone. Some have called it a ‘walking simulator’, based on other games that are similar to it, but I think that’s […]

Rise of the Tomb Raider

In popular culture, archaeology is associated with adventure. The earliest archaeologists were explorers, who went into unknown territory to examine ruins and dig up ancient artefacts. Need a believable action hero to chase after ancient treasures? Don’t pick a stuffy historian; go for an archaeologist instead! In the realm of videogames, the Tomb Raider series looms […]

Bone Tomahawk (2015)

Westerns were immensely popular in the 1960s, but the genre petered out in the course of the 1970s. Traditional westerns have been very rare in the past two decades, though there have been a few good ones: for example, Appaloosa (2008), directed by and starring Ed Harris, is worth checking out, as are the two recent Quentin Tarantino westerns. Cowboys and […]

Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak

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Bone Tomahawk

Westerns were immensely popular in the 1960s, but the genre petered out in the course of the 1970s. Traditional westerns have been very rare in the past two decades. Cowboys and Aliens (2011) added a science-fiction twist to the genre. Bone Tomahawk, released in 2015, does more or less the same thing, but this time mixes a conventional western with horror. […]