Charlie Fripp

BestReviews • 7 April 2023

4 developers that consistently make great video games

Video games have been a favorite pastime since the early '80s. Between two-tone color schemes and simple graphics, these early titles focused heavily on enjoyment, longevity and storylines. There were plenty of video game consoles to choose from, so the selection of games was also huge.

Many of today's most popular games take inspiration from successful franchises and developers of the '90s — most of which don't exist anymore. But while amazing developers can disappear just as fast as their ris

BestReviews • 17 October 2022

Move over horror movies — scary video games are the most immersive way to celebrate Halloween

Halloween is the most exciting day on the calendar for many people. Putting a lot of effort into dressing up in spooky characters or nightmarish ghouls, thousands roam their neighborhood streets looking for a scare — and, of course, some treats.

In the lead-up to the celebrations and on the night, plenty of people will host a Halloween party with scary movies. While that is effective, video games will give you a more immersive experience. There is nothing quite like controlling the action, only

WhatsGood • 29 November 2021

Farming Simulator 22 Review – Crop It Like It's Hot

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Farming Simulator 22 (FS22) is a simulation game that puts you to work on farmlands in three different regions across the globe. Through modern equipment and tools, you must toil from dawn until dusk to make enough money for further expansion. And when failing crops get you down, you can take up animal husbandry or forestry.

Ask anybody who grew up on a farm, and they will b

Chicago Tribune • 8 October 2021

Best racing PC games available on Amazon

When the first racing game for a personal computer, “Space Race,” was developed in 1973 for the Atari system, no one realized the generational impact its 2D gameplay would have on video games today. The gaming market is now a multibillion-dollar industry and racing games make up a large slice of it.

Chicago Tribune • 23 August 2021

The best tycoon game

Video games allow you to be anything you want to be. Whether you want to be an astronaut, a sheriff or a warrior, there are plenty of games out there for you. But if you think you have what it takes to run a company, business or empire, you’ll want to get your hands on a tycoon game.

CBR • 22 October 2020

SMITE: Five Franchises We Want to See Appear

MOBA title SMITE will have a pretty cool throwback for all the 80s kids, as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be making their way into the game as part of the game's upcoming November Battle Pass. TMNT is the latest crossover with SMITE, following the addition of Avatar: The Last Airbender characters as playable skins.

SMITE has been around for a while, and it sure doesn't look like it'll be slowing down any time soon.

CBR • 20 October 2020

Rockstar Games' Latest Purchase Is GREAT For Crackdown Fans

Take-Two Interactive has acquired the studio responsible for developing the last two Crackdown games. It revealed that Ruffian Games will now be rolled into Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games. Ruffian's last game, Crackdown 3, was plagued with development issues and finally launched three years after the initial release date. It got battered by the critics, as it simply couldn’t keep pace with 2010’s Crackdown 2.

CBR • 10 October 2020

Microsoft Flight Simulator: 10 MUST-HAVE Add-Ons

Microsoft Flight Simulator is a fantastic reboot of the beloved franchise. Development studio Asobo included as much as it could to make the title authentic to the actual experience of flying, but as with any game, there is always room for enhancement.
As a stand-alone title, this year’s release is proficient at scratching the itch to fly.

CBR • 6 October 2020

REVIEW: Microsoft Flight Simulator: Asobo Gives Franchise Its Captain Wings

It’s incredibly hard to imagine that Microsoft's first flight simulator title hit store shelves 37 years ago. Flight Simulator 1.0 was released that same year the Space Shuttle Columbia made its first operational flight and released the same month a Boeing 757 set a nonstop distance record of 4,913 miles.

CBR • 29 September 2020

Fall Guys: Dissecting an Anatomical Nightmare

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout might be super popular right now, but a recent tweet from its official Twitter account might make some players feel a bit queasy about the characters. Senior Concept Artist Tudor Morris designed an x-ray version of one of the jellybeans, to show fans what exactly is inside the multi-colored layers -- and it’s an anatomical nightmare.

ESPN • 26 September 2020

ESL African Championship's relegations matches kick off on Monday

After heated confrontations during the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive group stages and in the finals to determine the best teams, the ESL African Championship will start the relegation matches on Monday 31 July.

These matches are played by the bottom four teams from the groups stages against four new teams, harvested from the second round of Counter-Strike open qualifiers.

XGames.com • 14 February 2018

Mettlestate to host a two-season Valkyrie Challenge

eSports organisation Mettlestate announced today (14 February 2018) that it will be hosting another Valkyrie Challenge this year - but this time around there will be a slight twist.

While last year's all-girl CS:GO tournament was a one-day, two-team affair, this year's iteration will span two seasons with a prize pool of R50 000 prize pool for each season.

The winner of each season will walk away with R25 000, while second place will get R15 000, and the third placed team will get a cool R10 0

ESPN • 3 November 2017

Algeria's Limitless.gg signs tops ESL African Championship players

The ESL African Championship, which concluded at rAge last month, was designed to pit the best Hearthstone players and CSGO teams against each other to determine the best African talent.

It was also a platform for rising starts to come to the fore, and in the case of Hearthstone players Exia (OverGame) and Saliom, it meant signing contracts with ESL African Championship's third-place winners Limitless.gg.

In a statement by the team's manager Marko Pavuna, Limitless.gg said that it was without

ESPN • 30 October 2017

Olympic Committee: eSports "could be considered" an actual sport

The International Olympic Committee has been mulling the idea for some time that esports could eventually be included in the Olympic Games at some point.

Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee told the South China Morning Post that while he is open to the idea of including esports, it has to be on a non-violent level.

But over the weekend it seemed that more members are opening up to the inclusion of competitive video games.

In an official memo from the 6th Olympic Summ

ESPN • 19 September 2017

Lauren 'Pansy' Scott and Jason 'Moses' O'Toole to cast at ESL African Championship

Kwesé Gamer and ESL Africa are proud to announce that international esports casters Lauren 'Pansy' Scott and Jason 'Moses' O'Toole will be attending the annual rAge expo for the ESL African Championship final.

The ESL African Championship finals, to be held from 6 - 8 October, will see the top two North African teams face off against the best two South African teams.

The entire spectacle will be streamed live on the Kwesé Gamer Facebook page and ESL Africa's Twitch channel.

Scott and O'Toole

XGames.com • 12 September 2017

Algeria's Limitless first team to qualify for ESL African Championship finals

Algeria's Limitless first team to qualify for ESL African Championship finals

The annual rAge exhibition is South Africa's biggest video gaming event, so it is incredibly fitting that Kwesé Gamer and ESL will host the grand finals of the ESL African Championship at the event.

After open qualifiers in July to determine the best Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams in North and South Africa, the top eight teams battled it out week by week in the group stages.

But while there are still six mat

ESPN • 8 August 2017

Limitless pummels Tunisia With Love in North African group stages

It might have been the second CS:GO game of the night, but all eyes were fixed on the matchup between Limitless and Tunisia With Love (TWL) in the first group stage games for the ESL Africa Championship.

Taking the match with a score of 2-0, Limitless completely dominated the Train and Inferno maps. For the Train map, Limitless ended the round with a score of 16:5. Gaining more steam, it completed the Inferno map with a score of 16:2.

ESPN • 5 July 2017

Amateur SA esports teams get a shot at professional tournament

How many times have you watched esports and thought 'oh, why did he do that?" or "I would have been able to make that shot"?

Well, now is the time to prove that your amateur Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team can keep up with professional side.

Matrix Warehouse together with South African esports organisation Mettlestate, yesterday announced a new esports tournament specifically designed to give amateur teams a taste of what it's like to play (and be treated) like professionals.

The Matrix

ESPN.com • 19 June 2017

ESL African Championship group stage finals to be held over two days

After consultation with players, team managers and crew involved in the group stages of the ESL African Championship, a decision was made to move certain around, most importantly the group stage finals. The group stage finals were previously moved to 1 July from 7 July, but it has subsequently come to light that 1st July clashes with other esports events in South Africa over that weekend. The group stage finals will now take place over two days: Saturday 15 July and Sunday 16 July. The last matc

WhatsGood • 25 October 2016

Farming Simulator 17 Review | Amoozing

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If you were a fan of Diablo’s cow level, boy do we have some good news for you

Guest Reviewer: Charlie Fripp



What is it? An open-world simulator that allows you to run your own farm (either on the outskirts of a small American town or in Russia’s countryside) through harvesting crops or farming with pigs, cows or sheep. It is entirely up to you how you want to run your

Hypertext • 13 October 2016

Ghost Recon Wildlands Interview: A chat with Ubisoft's Tom Isaksen

Since its first big reveal at E3 two years ago, Ghost Recon Wildlands has banked its appeal on being a truly open-ended shooter.

While most games in this genre shove players into a corridor, giving them only one way of progressing, Wildlands offers players myriad choices in how they go about their death-dealing. Wildlands aims to deliver an open-world, free-for-all experience where players need to take on the bad guys in Bolivia; you and three friends can tackle missions with all-out customisation.

Hypertext • 12 October 2016

Almost 35 000 people and 124 exhibitors attended rAge this year

Ask any South African gamer, and they will be hard-pressed to find a bigger event in the local gaming calendar than the annual rAge expo. It is a three-day long celebration of all things gaming, from sneak peeks of international titles, to some really cool games developed in our own back yard.

Every year the exhibition has increased – not only in the number of titles on show or floor space – but also in the amount of people that it attracts.