Alex Donaldson

United Kingdom

Assistant Editor at VG247

Video game critic. Owner @RPGSite, Editor-at-large @Eurogamer & @VG247, occasional freelancer. Street Fighter, Whisky, Final Fantasy, Lego & NFL expert/saddo.

Articles

How real life swordsmen and a search for realism has changed the face of Onimusha in Way of the Sword

1 week ago | msn.com | Alex Donaldson

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How real life swordsmen and a search for realism has changed the face of Onimusha in Way of the Sword

1 week ago | eurogamer.net | Alex Donaldson

It's arguably the perfect time for the return of Onimusha. If we're discounting remasters and strange Japan-exclusive spin-offs, it's been almost twenty years since the last entry in the series - and it does feel a lot like that time has seen the ground prepared for the return of Capcom's demon-slaying samurai series. For one, there has been a huge surge in the popularity of media set in and around feudal Japanese history.
“10 years ago, we were fighting to survive. It’s totally different now” Sega’s franchise guru on Sonic’s redemption arc

1 week ago | msn.com | Alex Donaldson

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Sega's Sonic series producer tells all

1 week ago | eurogamer.net | Alex Donaldson

Sonic the Hedgehog has been on a redemption arc. It might not feel like the blue blur has ever really left us - and that's because he hasn't - but sometimes you need to reach the summit to survey that which has come before. It's only when we consider Sonic's current position when directly compared to years prior that the disastrous depths the world's favorite hedgehog plunged becomes truly clear. Sega knows it, too.
Pragmata is a fascinating genre mash-up, and Capcom at its experimental best

2 weeks ago | eurogamer.net | Alex Donaldson

I love it when Capcom experiments. It's true that with a staple of franchises and characters like those it has, there isn't all that much pressure on Capcom to experiment. It has most of what it needs to make that corporate profit line go up, in truth. But every now and then the company nevertheless experiments with something new - and usually, backed up by those successful franchises, the company can strike gold. My favourite Capcom experiment of all time is undoubtedly Dead Rising.
I played Resident Evil 9 and they heard me scream in the booth next door

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Alex Donaldson

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I played Resident Evil 9 and they heard me scream in the booth next door

2 weeks ago | eurogamer.net | Alex Donaldson

If you're well into following video game news, you're likely going to see a lot of new information about Resident Evil 9/Requiem today - to be clear, Capcom has done its usual trick of giving the game a title, but changing a letter (q in this instance) to the entry number in its reveal trailer. Over the weekend, hundreds of critics and influencers filed into a darkened theatre to witness a pre-recorded first gameplay video of Summer Games Fest's biggest reveal.
Sonic Racing: Crossworlds might be the most mechanically rich kart racer ever made

2 weeks ago | eurogamer.net | Alex Donaldson

When I saw that the hands-on demo for Sonic Racing Crossworlds at Summer Games Fest was a full hour long, I was sort of taken aback. An hour? For a kart racer? Our time is pretty limited at these events, and in the interest of trying to squeeze as much in as possible one always tries not to spend more time with a game than is strictly necessary to get a broad idea of what it's trying to do and how it's coming together. A few minutes into the hands-on, I understood.
A completely timely review of Nintendo's controversial, expensive handheld

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Alex Donaldson

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A completely timely review of Nintendo's controversial, expensive handheld

3 weeks ago | eurogamer.net | Alex Donaldson

It's that most thrilling time, the dawn of a new hardware generation. It's gaming Christmas! As a critic, that means it's time for that finest tradition - an intense period of bedding in with a new piece of hardware, vigorously road-testing it so that we can inform you, our delightful readers, if this thrilling new piece of tech is worth your money. But this isn't a Nintendo Switch 2 review, for reasons that will become clear.