Dave Meikleham
Latest articles by Dave Meikleham
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order succeeds as the first game to truly understand the power of the lightsaber
By Dave Meikleham published
Features Lapping up lightsaber battles and having Force fun times with Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
From Silent Hill 2 to Resident Evil 3 Remake: A brief history of survival horror games on Xbox
By Dave Meikleham, Chris Burke published
Features Official Xbox Magazine charts a brief history of horror on the Xbox platform
With Halo: Reach now reborn in 4K, memories of painful achievement hunting comes flooding back
By Dave Meikleham published
Features Halo: Reach is as good as it has ever been, but going back to this Xbox 360 classic has put me in a difficult position
Obsessively taming the Wild West: How the quest to 100% Red Dead Redemption 2 became a full-time job
By Dave Meikleham published
Features Losing yourself in a Rockstar world is far too easy to do
Microsoft Flight Simulator hands-on: the sky is the limit for this ambitious aviation sim
By Dave Meikleham published
Preview Microsoft Flight Simulator is astonishingly detailed, providing a peek into an exciting future for video games
Games that defined the Decade: Red Dead Redemption captures a sense of time and place unlike any other
By Dave Meikleham published
Features 10 years on, and John Marston still stands tall as one of the most convincingly three-dimensional characters in gaming
"Why I finished Metal Gear Solid 4 for the 13th time – by hiding in a bin for a day”
By Dave Meikleham published
Features As Kojima's stealth classic goes free on PlayStation Plus, one writer recalls his desperate quest to secure PS3's hardest Trophy
Should I buy an Xbox One X if I don't have a 4K TV?
By Leon Hurley, Dave Meikleham published
Xbox One X We breakdown the key tech questions for those who still own a 1080p set
Should I buy a PS4 Pro if I don’t have a 4K TV?
By Dave Meikleham, Sam Loveridge, Leon Hurley published
PS4 Pro We answer the critical questions for anyone who owns a 1080p TV or wonders if PS4 Pro might improve PS VR performance
Heartbreak, horses and the staggering Red Dead Redemption 2 ending explained
By Dave Meikleham published
Features The (multiple) finales of the sandbox classic explained
How Red Dead Redemption used its sense of place and time to craft a world, and hero, that Rockstar has never bettered
By Dave Meikleham published
Opinion
Screwing over friends and fixing up windows in COD: World At War’s Nazi Zombies, one of gamings best spin offs
By Dave Meikleham published
Opinion Remembering the good times with what makes Cod Zombies brilliant
Sony’s first-party titles are sending out a message: they want you to feel sad, and its The Last Of Us’ fault
By Dave Meikleham published
Opinion The release schedule is filled with games that want to be TLOU
Dead Space is the best damn horror game Capcom never made
By Dave Meikleham published
Features
Break cyber walls and tame robots with PlayStation’s ultimate hackers
By Dave Meikleham published
Best List
Brace yourself for twice the trouble with PlayStation’s best double acts
By Dave Meikleham published
Best List
How Black burst our ear drums and ruined our trigger fingers shooting PS2’s most devastating firearms
By Dave Meikleham published
Retrospective
It’s survival of the dimmest in Ark: Survival Evolved as we embrace its silly side and have a Jurassic lark
By Dave Meikleham published
Opinion
Celebrating the marvellous mundanity in David Cage’s film noir interactive drama Heavy Rain
By Dave Meikleham published
Retrospective
Why PS2 squad shooter Freedom Fighters deserves a PS4 comeback
By Dave Meikleham published
Features
Celebrating rodent royalty with the best rats in PlayStation history
By Dave Meikleham published
Best list
PlayStation VR is an incredible piece of kit, but it needs a killer app if it's going to truly thrive
By Dave Meikleham published
Opinion
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