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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A Football Manager Impasse
I am a big fan of the Football Manager series, and I think that in many ways the new 2012 edition is one of the best versions of the game to be released for a few years. However, in my long-term career game I am starting to reach an impasse where I am going to struggle to achieve my desires.
Read More »Skyrim – Our Thoughts
Skyrim has come along and taken us off to an amazing world full of dragons and adventure, I think we are all agreed that it is a ‘Red Mist’ title, and definitely a Game of the Year contender. I am sure though that you want to know more about it than that, thus a few of us here on The Reticule have come together to share ‘Our Thoughts’ on this amazing title. Hit the jump to read our words.
Read More »DICE Make Good Patch Plans For Battlefield 3
DICE are releasing a mahoosive patch tomorrow for Battlefield 3 which is making some changes to the awful Tactical Light and fixes a problem where a TV guided missile could be shot into its own helicopter. The whole list is copy/pasted after the jump, but there is one upcoming change which I welcome with open arms.
"Our plan for the future is to introduce a warm-up mode, where players can move about and play the game, but with scoring disabled; then, when the number of players goes above the threshold -- that's when the real round starts."
Sitting on a server with only a handful of players, not being able to do anything because you are being stuck in place is awful, and puts people off joining low populated servers. If this change is brought it, it will bring Battlefield 3 into line with Battlefield 2 where you could have as much fun as you wanted before the game started properly. This will be an ideal time for you to hop onto an empty server and practice your jet or helicopter flying. Full change list for tomorrow follows.
What’s All This Then? – Xenonauts
When 2K’s Christoph Hartmann said that “strategy games are just not contemporary”, what he actually meant was “we can’t market and sell a strategy game on a console”. That was in defence of the abominable idea of turning X-Com into an FPS. Gentlemen, gentleladies, I am afraid that we may never see another strategy game in the X-Com series. One would think there were lessons to learn from Enforcer and Interceptor, but you would apparently be wrong.
Read More »Year in Review
This is a bit of a personal year in review, not just a run down of individual games which have come out this year. We will do something along the lines of a Game of the Year, this isn’t that though. This is a low-down on happenings here on The Reticule over the past year, and some of my personal highlights.
Read More »Mario Kart 7 – A Few Words
I spoke to our part-time contributor Mark Reece earlier today ahead of his review of Mario Kart 7M and he had a few words to describe the game. “It is Mario Kart, what more needs to be said. Red Mist easily.” Look out for Mark’s review soon here on The Reticule.
Read More »Star Wars: The Old Republic Beta – First Impressions
I didn’t know quite what to expect when I installed this game for the first time. Bioware are a company that have proven time and time again that they know a good story and how to tell it but until now have never produced anything on the scale of an MMORPG. So to say that I was both intrigued and cautious about how this game would reveal itself would be correct. After finding that my beta application had been accepted and doing a bit of research on The Old Republic I was buzzing for this game and what a start it got off to. The intro cinematic is like nothing I’ve seen in an MMO before and could have quite easily come from a fully animated Star Wars film. There is a separate showpiece for the Republic and the Empire depending on which faction you choose to align yourself with and this sets the feel for the starting area and quest lines perfectly.
Read More »Cliffski updates us on Show Me The Games
There was recently a big sale on at Show Me The Games, the indie games portal set up by Positech’s Cliff Harris. I was keen to find out how the sale had gone, and how the site is doing. Hit the jump for Cliff’s thoughts.
Read More »What’s All This Then? – Towns
Hello! Welcome to ‘What’s All This Then?’, a weekly* column** where Lewis looks at upcoming indie games***. This week, Towns!
Read More »Ivan Ertlov on releasing in Austria/Germany
Last week I briefly talked about the legal obstacles indie developers are faced with when releasing titles in Germany. I have been able to talk briefly with Ivan Ertlov, an indie developer currently working on Into the Dark. Hit the jump for some thoughts from Ivan on this issue.
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