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Do you need an opinion? Denis is a walking warehouse of opinions on gaming. Some are good quality, some simply react badly to the atmosphere when you open them up, turning into a strange opinion gunge. No problem for Denis, because he is still right. Playing on multiple platforms, Denis is all about what's new and what's clever. Sometimes he does hark back to a "golden age" of gaming, which he explains as a time "before I knew the rest of you".
Denis has a type, and that type is Sony first-party, with a particular soft spot for the Horizon franchise, which he will defend with the same energy he brings to everything else: loudly and at length. He's a Bungie loyalist through and through, having logged more hours in Destiny than he'd care to admit, and Marathon is already circled on his calendar in permanent marker. When he's not in those worlds, he's probably building one of his own survival games, which are his true love, from Valheim and Planet Crafter to Surviving Mars and Dune: Awakening. Give him an empty planet, a handful of resources, and absolutely no help, and he's happy. He made the journey over from PC at some point and hasn't looked back, though he reserves the right to remind you he was a PC gamer once, usually when it's least relevant.
Denis covers new releases, platform news, and anything that catches his eye, which, given the breadth of his taste, is quite a lot. He's the voice you'll find on first-party PlayStation coverage, Bungie updates, and survival game deep dives, but his real speciality is having a take. Whether it lands perfectly or dissolves into gunge is part of the experience.
Team Ninja's latest delivers everything Nioh fans wanted - refined combat, smoother progression, and gorgeous visuals - without sacrificing the brutal challenge that defines the series. This is iterative design at its finest.
FEBRUARY 4
Nearly 20 years ago, Dark Age of Camelot was a new, exciting, PvP MMO experience. As its successor takes shape after seven years, Mark Jacobs tells us his of hopes for Camelot Unchained, how the games industry has changed, and why Star Citizen needs to succeed.
SEPTEMBER 9
Ask yourself what can you do for PUBG, not what PUBG can do for you! Yes, we know this is a Black Ops review but do stay with the conceit: How the fast development cycle of Black Ops got it right, and PUBG has so consistently got it wrong.
OCTOBER 25
Is Hungry Shark World the Great White Hope of coastal killer games or is it a bottom feeder? We've put some hours in attacking and snacking on the Switch, fully up to our gills in gore. But did it leave us with an appetite for more?
AUGUST 16
Raft looks like it has a promising future ahead of it, but that future hasn't quite docked yet. Should the game's serene atmosphere be here to stay and not just turn into a growing pain, then Redbeet Interactive are on the right track.
JUNE 9
Given legendary impatience with manuals, and lack of game-time, I dived straight into the game. Tutorial screens? Nah. Practice runs against some inanimate objects? Don't be silly. Monster Hunter: World however really benefits from paying attention to the help screens, and using practice the area.
FEBRUARY 14
Fittingly for a game that is the latest incarnation of a series with some years of pedigree, Monster Hunter: World has an old school feel in many ways, somewhat like a traditional MMO. But if you think an MMO isn't your style, then Monster Hunter could still be your thing.
FEBRUARY 13
Horizon Zero Dawn is a game that got all the rave reviews. Its expansion, the Frozen Wilds, is even more deserving of all the love that the original title got. Here's our review.
DECEMBER 3
I have been umming and ahhing over writing this at all for number of reasons. I don't enjoy bashing away at the effort put in by so many people at Bungie, and of course there are plenty of people that absolutely enjoy what has been put in front of them, in the form of Destiny 2. However, it's fair to say that I am more than just slightly irked by it. I do still play it, so this may come across as a little hypocritical, but the flaws are real whether we ignore them or not.
OCTOBER 31For Honor could have learnt from looking at other games that do things well, and not reinventing the wheel for the sake of it. Except Ubisoft clearly thought they knew better
FEBRUARY 25
So much potential, not enough developers. Is the time right for No Man's Sky to go crowdsourcing?
FEBRUARY 16Civilization VI will end up being the cheapest game per hour played you've ever bought
JANUARY 21
