Soul Calibur V – The Verdict
Don’t let the dashing, hooded Italian on Soul Calibur V‘s boxart fool you. Namco and »
Our Games Of The Year (Part 2)
We aren’t quite done with our ‘Our Games of the Year’ piece as three riders »
Our Games Of The Year
I think we can all agree that it has been quite a year for games »
Batman: Arkham City – The Verdict
Back in 1997, R-Kelly sang that Gotham City was a City of Justice, Love and »
Skyrim – Our Thoughts
Skyrim has come along and taken us off to an amazing world full of dragons »
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Digger Simulator 2011 – The Verdict
Excalibur Publishing has over the years become something of a running joke within the realm of the simulation genre. Abandoning the usual staples of military simulation, their partnership with the German developer Astragon has instead decided to concentrate on the more obscure and mundane side of vehicle simulation.
Read More »Bumbling on Bundle Rumbles
2011 has arguably been the year of the Indie bundle. In the last year, there have been five bundles from the most famous of these – the Humble Indie Bundle – alone, and some quick maths tells us that if you had bought every single Humble bundle at just one cent above the average price (thus getting any extra games offered) when each bundle ended according to Wikipedia, you would now have twenty-eight games for a total cost of a mind-boggling £16.03 (About $24.99). With these figures – and other new bundles appearing at a startling rate – it’s not hard to see why some are starting to question whether these bundles are doing more harm than good.
Read More »Alex Poysky On Towns – Interview
I took a look at Towns two weeks ago and liked it quite a lot. Today, you can read an interview with Alex Posky, SMP’s Content Manager and PR man.
Read More »What’s All This Then? – StarDrive
It’s been a long time since I’ve played a 4X game that’s actually fun. Then I played StarDrive.
Read More »Hitman: Absolution – New Trailer
At the Eurogamer Expo, Michael and I attended a developer session on Hitman: Absolution which blew me away. This new trailer has reminded me of how good this game might be. I'm hoping though that we don't need to go in all guns blazing like in this trailer, I want to see some more of the sneaky sneaky action.
Mario Kart 7 – The Verdict
The Mario Kart series has been a firm favourite with Nintendo fans ever since Super Mario Kart was released on the SNES back in 1992. Its (then) unique blend of manic racing action and weapons both offensive and defensive has since become the template for all other mascot-based racing games to base themselves upon – everyone from Sonic the Hedgehog to the M&Ms has had a finger in the kart-racing game pie in the last twenty years – which isn’t bad considering that, prior to its release, many assumed Super Mario Kart was a sign that Nintendo was either running out of ideas or simply abusing Mario’s popularity and mass appeal in order to make a quick buck. Of course, it proved itself to be a massive success both critically and commercially, and since then every major Nintendo console has had a Mario Kart game to call its own.
Read More »C&C Generals 2 Confirmed – Trailer And Screenshots Enclosed
EA have revealed Command and Conquer: Generals 2 at some small time game awards show over in the States. Generals 2 is being made by BioWare will run on Battlefield 3′s Frostbite 2 engine and will be set in a world where a terrorist attack has left the world without any politicians or diplomats, only Generals. Sounds…interesting? Hit the jump for another screenshot and a short trailer.
Read More »Football Manager 2012 Beats The Pirates – Sells Well
Miles Jacobson, boss of Football Manager 2012 developers Sports Interactive has been talking to Eurogamer about the success of using Steam authentication for their latest title. The headline messages from Mile’s are that the games wasn’t cracked for pirates until 10 days after release and that Sports Interactive have seen double-digit year-on-year growth for the series.
Read More »Chrome does Bastion
Word comes via RPS that Google's web browser, Chrome, is now supporting the lovely indie game Bastion. You can launch the game right from your browser, I just had a quick play with the trial, and it feels very smooth and efficient, more so than when playing Bastion through OnLive. Will Chrome start growing to challenge platforms like OnLive? Too early to tell right now, but my experience of playing Bastion through Chrome was more enjoyable than playing it through OnLive. What do Google have up their sleeve I wonder?
Batman: Arkham City – The Verdict
Back in 1997, R-Kelly sang that Gotham City was a City of Justice, Love and Peace (for everyone of us.) I’m not sure he was talking about the same city we all thought he was at the time, if the menagerie of crooks, criminals and villains that inhabit the part of Gotham where the events of Batman: Arkham City take place is anything to go by…
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