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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LEGO Harry Potter Years: 5-7 – Trailer and brief thoughts
There is a new trailer for LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 which you can see above, showing off some of the wizadry action you will find in the game, and that is perfect timing as I have been trying out this title over OnLive, hit the jump for some thoughts.
Gulf of Oman shown in new Strike at Karkand DLC Video
Gulf of Oman was one of the best maps from Battlefield 2, hell the majority of the maps in that game were awesome and still blow away anything from Battlefield 3. So it is nice to see that the map that started it all with the Battlefield 2 demo is coming back in the Strike at Karkand DLC for the newest title in the series. Those classic vehicles are going to be wonderful to play with. Now for some maps from Battlefield 1942 to appear....
Assassin’s Creed Revelations – The Verdict
Assassin’s Creed Revelations is precisely the kind of product that makes you question if it’s worth reviewing game sequels. Even though the asking price troubles the comparison, intentionally missing out on playing Revelations would be like missing out on the latest episode of a TV drama – you’re only not going to play this game if you’re planning to rage quit on the entire series. And aside from a somewhat lacking sense of forward momentum in the series right now (and concerns that a rushed Assassin’s Creed 3 will suffer the same problems), there really is no reason to miss out on playing this game. Assassin’s Creed Revelations: buy it at some point before the next one. Review ends.
Read More »Saints Row The Third – The Verdict
It seems rather alien now, to think that at one time the Saints Row series had somewhat of an identity crisis. An exclusive early 360 title, it was often – with good reason – compared to Grand Theft Auto, with a larger focus on gang warfare and a little more cartoonish than it’s most obvious rival. By the second game, Saints Row had firmly established an identity of it’s own, deciding to go down the silly OTT route, throwing faeces almost as far as it threw caution to the wind. Saints Row: The Third retains some of that garishness, but really shows a refinement in it’s delivery of the main story that marks it out in the series and more importantly, as it’s own title.
Read More »OnLiving in the past with Arkham City
I was part of that masochistic dial-up brigade who persisted in trying to play online even though pings around the 300 mark were common. Back when LPB and HPB were abbreviations that people still used. Back when in-game voice communication wasn’t widespread and you didn’t have to listen to strangers threaten to interfere with your relatives.
Read More »Minecraft Officially Released!!!
Last weekend saw the first ever Minecon convention launch with a sell out 2 day event in Las Vegas. The event was to mark the official release of Minecraft and to show some of the plans for the future of Minecraft and other games Notch has been working on. To date 4.1 million people have already bought Minecraft and many changes have been made for the ‘final’ version. I say ‘final’ because its unlikely that no more improvements or updates will ever be made to what is possibly the most anticipated indie game ever.
Read More »Gratuitous Tank Battles Dev Diary
Good old Cliff Harris shows off some Gratuitous Tank Battles in this new developer diary and tries to describe what kind of game it is. Tower defence, or something a bit different? Watch and enjoy.
Project Cars from Slightly Mad Studios
I came across Project Cars earlier today and I am intrigued by what I have seen so far. It is a game being developed by Slightly Mad Studios, those guys behind the Need for Speed: Shift series and is part of their World of Mass Development (WMD for short) development process. Hit the jump for some more details.
Read More »Play Battlefield 3 With Us Tonight
If you fancy some Battlefield 3 game time tonight, I am going to be online all night from 20:00GMT on the 256 Clan server. Just enter that name in the server search, or follow this link which should take you to the server directly. The server is 64-player with a heap of Conquest maps on rotation. My in-game name is ChrisWales if anyone wants to add me. Hooha!
Read More »Super Mario 3D Land – The Verdict
So it would seem that the wait is finally over. Yes, after eight months of third party software – the quality of which has been extremely erratic – and some admittedly good remakes of classic N64 games from Nintendo, the 3DS finally seemingly has that killer-app that makes owning Nintendo’s newest foray into portable gaming so worthwhile. Indeed, it certainly goes without saying that any platform game starring Mario is by very definition going to well and truly exhibit itself a system-seller and, for the most part, Mario’s 3DS debut proves that the portly plumber’s still got it.
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