Sam Hallahan

6 days ago | thegamer.com | Sam Hallahan

The Nintendo Wii is one of the best-selling consoles of all time, being one of the few with over 100 million units sold, and you could feel it. It seemed like most households had a Nintendo Wii, as gamers and non-gamer families alike were eager to pick one up for its party games. I remember Christmas gatherings where everyone would jump on Wii games, which I loved since I was usually the only family member to actively play games otherwise. But Wii Sports was the Nintendo Wii game.

1 week ago | thegamer.com | Sam Hallahan

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably seen loads of cool keyboards on TikTok with custom keycaps, creamy switches, and so much satisfaction with each button press that makes you desperately want to go out and build your own just to have that same feeling day in, day out. I’ve used a few different mechanical keyboards in my time, but none of them gave me anything close to that feeling of extremely pleasant keystrokes with each word, until I started using the Keychron Q1 HE keyboard.

1 week ago | thegamer.com | Sam Hallahan

Now, I feel the itch, and with the Nintendo Switch 2 version bringing the game back to the spotlight for a while, I’m only more tempted. But should I, when I know I’ll never finish it? It’s An Astounding RPG, And I Have Every Reason To Love It I don’t dislike Cyberpunk 2077. There’s never any central thing that turns me away each time, and I think it’s a brilliantly crafted RPG from the studio of The Witcher 3.

1 week ago | thegamer.com | Sam Hallahan

I’ve bought seven Nintendo Switch consoles. This is not a flex, it’s a cry for help. That’s almost a Switch per year since 2017. Switch 1 March 3, 2017, was the day I got one of my favourite consoles of all time, and one of my favourite games of all time. Playing Breath of the Wild on the exciting new hybrid console was incredible on so many levels, and I couldn’t get enough of the little handheld as more and more games became available.

1 week ago | thegamer.com | Sam Hallahan

Back in December 2013, an ambitious space-faring adventure called No Man’s Sky was revealed by independent studio Hello Games. It garnered much more attention in 2014 following Sony’s marketing push at E3 that year, and the scale of its ambition and hype began to snowball. I won’t give you the whole tale you already know, but Hello Games’ ambition exceeded its grasp when the game finally launched in 2016.