Miles Thompson

3 weeks ago | fingerguns.net | Miles Thompson

The Precinct bucks the typical trend we see in video games of allowing us to live out all of our violent fantasies. Gunning down troves of enemies, smashing cars into fiery wrecks, breaking every road law ever conceived. While The Precinct has the same top-down, birds-eye-view from the original Grand Theft Auto games, you’re on the other side of the law this time. Though we’ve all tried to follow the rules in GTA before getting bored and going on a rampage, haven’t we? I digress.

1 month ago | fingerguns.net | Miles Thompson

As the resident reviewer of the strange yet wonderful quagmire of indie strategy games, Anoxia Station was novel even for me. Obtuse opening, dreamlike visuals, haunting audio and a challenge gradient with the steep incline of a vertical dive. Shiver me timbers, we’ve got ourselves a cosmically terrifying Lovecraftian-inspired survival management sim. Despite the protests of my sanity, I can’t ever pass up the opportunity to delve right into that premise.

1 month ago | fingerguns.net | Miles Thompson

Haunted houses are one of life’s great guilty pleasures. No matter what amusement park you frequent, you can rest assured there’ll be a mildly creepy building of terrible jump scares to lightly entertain you between the rollercoasters. Nothing like a Cabin in the Woods style movie to hilariously thrill with ridiculously over-the-top horror tropes, too. But what if I told you there was the opportunity to become the haunted house? Lure people in, drain their sanity, execute them mercilessly.

1 month ago | fingerguns.net | Miles Thompson

Who’d have thought back in 2022 that we’d be here in 2025, where not only are Microsoft in the middle of a resurgence with a string of excellent releases, but all of those releases are coming over to Sony’s console at the same time. The gaming zeitgeist has shifted dramatically from just a couple of years ago. While the majority of those changes are ubiquitously disappointing (looking at you, price rises and layoffs), the removal of console war exclusivity has been one of the shining lights.

1 month ago | fingerguns.net | Miles Thompson

We all need a dash of educational value in our video games every now and then. As I wandered through the lush, sun-blushed forest of Two Falls, a rousing piece of music in my ears, and my companion Pierre musing on a tale about over-abundant hunting, I found it difficult not be swept up in its themes of companionship, the nature of change and impact of colonialism on indigenous cultures.