During the first five minutes of this episode I thought I was about to witness something witty and ingeniously satirical – you know, what we’ve come to expect from Sam & Max games. Episode 4 opens with our heroes fleeing in terror from wave after wave of mindless Sam clones (“Dogglegangers!”). From that point onwards, [...]

Every now and then a game comes along that irrevocably shatters your conviction of what gaming is all about. LIMBO is, without question, one of those games. I honestly wish that I could force every person I know to play through it just once. The premise is simple: “Uncertain of his sister’s fate, a boy [...]

I feel as if I’ve just come down from a three-day acid binge. Every time I close my eyes I see Power Stars that need collecting; every time I have the briefest of internal monologues, they are punctuated by high-pitched, grating Toad voices; I keep wishing my dog had a tongue half as awesome as [...]

As is the nature with episodic gaming, it is difficult to discuss the newest instalment without a few spoilers for previous episodes creeping in. That would be the case if Episode 3 was subtitled anything else. But would you look at that, it isn’t. So by now you’ll know (whether you’ve played it or not) [...]

Games allow us to play out our fantasies no matter how unlikely; such as seeing South Africa winning the 2010 World Cup considering we’ve just been booted from the competition. What a coincidence then that this game comes up for review just in time to satiate my desire to see our country beat the odds. [...]

Another E3 has come and gone and gamers the world over are reeling in a euphoric haze after devouring way more gaming news than is ordinarily considered healthy. This year’s E3 ran from 15-17 June 2010, and over those few days all the big names in the industry dropped tons of information on what we [...]

If LittleBigPlanet’s Sackboy hooked-up with Princess Peach in the back of a Mario Kart go-kart, then their illegitimate spawn would be ModNation Racers. That one sentence pretty much summarises this PlayStation 3 and PSP exclusive.

It is 1911 and the last days of the Wild West are fading at an alarming rate. Civilisation is encroaching deeper into the once lawless deserts and scrublands that have become synonymous with cowboys, bandits and horse rides across the prairies. The protagonist, John Marston, embodies the ways of the Old West [...]

When we last left our disconcerting duo in Episode 1, they had foiled a space-gorilla’s attempt to take over the galaxy by using psychic-power-producing toys from the Devil’s Toy Box. Before the credits started rolling however, Sam and Max were just in time to make a foreboding discovery. Now the two are tasked with delving [...]

Finnish development studio Remedy Entertainment has been working on Alan Wake for more than five years. The game was first announced at E3 in 2005, and since then it has had Xbox 360 owners enraptured. In the years leading up to its final release, the title drifted in and out of the spotlight, sporadically reappearing [...]

It’s the third season of freelance policing with the bizarre crime-fighting duo, Sam and Max. They’re back with a new story, some familiar characters and a whole lot of insanity – a quality that would leave any Sam & Max game feeling decidedly un-Sam-and-Max-ish were it missing. In fact, absurdity knows no bounds in this, [...]

At its heart, Axel & Pixel is a slimmed down point-and-click puzzle game: you won’t be stuffing an ever-expanding inventory with all sorts of items; you won’t have to have conversations with characters (in fact, there is no understandable dialogue at all, just Sim-like gibberish); and you won’t be wandering backwards and forwards between new [...]

How did I guess something like this was going to happen? The moment Activision mentioned that there would be an avatar appearance of Kurt Cobain in the latest Guitar Hero, the Internet exploded with whinging saying the idea was “creepy”. What’s the deal? The guy has been dead for ages, and who wouldn’t want to [...]

There seems to be a lot of COMS and CONS going on at the moment, because while GDC/GAMESCOM winds down this weekend, BLIZZCON is kicking into high gear. With BLIZZCON 09 currently belching news into the gaming ether of the internet, one can expect some long-awaited updates on their upcoming games. For instance, they’ve just [...]

Look at that: more PlayStation news just sloshed out of a beer tankard in Germany. It seems Sony is into all things tiny at this year’s GDC/GAMESCON as they’ve elaborated on their concept of PSP Minis. From 01 October PSN users will have access to a new section on the store for PSP Minis, which [...]

The rumours have been flying around the Internet for a couple of months now, and over the last few weeks those rumours have been gaining momentum with various retailers in the USA, Europe, and UK leaking stock lists or photos indicating the existence of the PlayStation 3 Slim. Kaz Hirai (you know who he is, [...]