Gaming

Guest post: Grizzland – Review

Today is a pretty big day. Ninja Refinery has it’s first ever guest-written post. Here is the review from Grizzland, from Mike of codewithmike.com Grizzland is a retro inspired adventure platformer that’s available on the PS4, XBOX ONE, PC and the Nintendo Switch. As with all of our reviews we like to be transparent and […]

Gaming

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Animal Crossing is a series that I’ve had very very little to do with over the years. Apart from the mobile game that I got bored of quite quickly, I’ve never really given it a chance. I know that people that are into it, are really really into it. I know the bells are a […]

Gaming

Games and our approach to them

A mantra used in so many methodologies, from project management to development of software and plans for meetings/sessions. What about games, though? Plan, Do, Review. It’s clear, it’s concise and it’s remarkably effective. A cycle, not a linear map to follow. As soon as you hit the “review” phase, you go back to planning your […]

Gaming

Pokemon Sword – Change is good

My love for Pokemon is years-long and runs deep. I’ve played everything from Blue, onwards (with exceptions of non-base games like Ultra Moon and Ultra Sun). I haven’t finished them all, mind. Pokemon Black was just enough to bore me to tears, and I’ve not finished Apha Sapphire. However, I did finish the original Ruby, […]

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Ninja Refinery 2020

A whole new decade is upon us! 2020 is going to see the release of the next generation of consoles, and no dooubt the improvement of the “games as a service” model (Stadia, XCloud etc). Fantastic, right?! Well, yeah. But that’s potentially a lot of money, and honestly, a lot of time that I’m not […]