While Dark Ages continues Doom’s legacy of ripping and tearing, it does so with dull teeth In 1996, Marvel released a promotional comic based on the 1993 video game Doom. In the comic, the main protagonist, ‘Doom Guy,’ in a fit of barely controlled rage, claims he wants to ‘rip and tear’ a Cyberdemon’s huge guts. This comic was often mocked and ridiculed in the Doom community as completely ridiculous… until Doom (2016) was released, where ‘rip and tear’ was introduced as the tagline for the whole series. You might have thought it was stupid to pin your franchise on something your fans mocked you for literally decades, but after playing 2016, most people looked at ‘rip and tear’ and thought, “Yeah, that’s exactly what this game is about”.   All shooters should make me feel like this What Doom (2016) and its sequel Doom Eternal did was use this stupid tagline as an ethos for its first-person shooter design. Most shooters often focus on the spectacle of what the player was doin...

    Welcome to the first instalment of ‘The Cleanup’, which basically says, ‘Here’s what I want to talk about, but I don’t have enough things to say to justify an entire post about it. ' The idea about this blog is less to spread the word and more about getting better at the word. To do that, I need something to talk about, and sometimes those things to talk about don’t have enough things to talk about… or something, I don’t know. Anyway, here’s how I’m feeling about things this week. Grand Theft Auto VI Will Make All The Money In The World 2025 and 2026's Most Anticpated Game   What I would comfortably say is the most anticipated game of all time got both a significant delay to May 2026 and a brand new trailer this week and holy shit this game looks incredible. Rockstar has always been the studio that goes over the top in the AAA space, and Grand Theft Auto VI is no different. The scope and detail in this game go well beyond anything else out or currently in development....

 Did not think I’d be writing this piece this soon. I made a joke on Bluesky about how Giant Bomb, a website about video games but actually about professional wrestling and chain restaurants, had “died” at least four times beforehand. Usually, to coincide with an acquisition or layoffs, but this time I mean it. Giant Bomb has died after years and years of fighting off the cancer that is corporate mismanagement and being oversaw by the dumbest fucking people on the planet. For those who don’t know, Giant Bomb was one of the first truly indie games outlets in the late 2000s. They were essentially pirate punk radio, but for telling you which first-person shooter was worth paying for. It had a rebellious spirit that reminded me of something like N.W.A or Extreme Championship Wrestling; it had that swagger and anti-establishment that differentiated it from existing media, while also being fundamentally better than everyone else on the playing field. They were brash and vulgar but articu...

Welcome to my blog. The Blog of Willin. I am incredibly unimaginative and quite boring but if you’re here and reading this, I have my suspicions that you are unimaginative and boring too. A damn shame While this blog will mainly be focusing on video games, the things around video games and the things around the things around video games, I will also occasionally delve into a myriad of other topics, including working as a teacher, the anime industry, general tech stuff and if the mood finds me professional wrestling. The Oblivion Remaster is good. Opinion given. The purpose of this blog isn’t to spread my ideology to the masses or create a cache of ramblings that I could use as a point of reference for getting a job (wouldn’t that be nice), but to honestly give me an avenue to write. I haven't been writing as much since graduating from university with my Bachelor of Education. I immensely enjoy writing as it allows me to express myself without destroying my self-esteem by pointing a...