Back in 1998 I played StarCraft and really enjoyed it, but I am by no means a StarCraft fanboy. Consequently I like to think that I am able to approach this review with at least a smidgeon of objectivism. Now that that’s out of the way, the following sentence should, theoretically, hold a little more [...]

This game has been out in Japan and the US for quite some time now and received more than its fair share of attention, being cited as a new and unusual action RPG for its rock-hard challenge and unique online mode. In case you are wondering, both of those statements are true – Demon’s Souls [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Before I’d played No More Heroes, I would never have believed that a games developer would seriously consider turning a concept like that into an actual game. I would love to have been present at the concept pitch to the publisher: “OK, so you play an ex-pro-wrestler otaku with a light sabre katana out to [...]

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 [...]

It probably isn’t untrue to say that the original Lost Planet was something of a sleeper hit. It received little more than the standard amount of promotion for a game and didn’t seem to be anything special when you looked at it. When you tried playing it, however, it turned out to have a certain [...]

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 [...]

When development of C&C 4 was announced, many Command & Conquer vets were concerned about the changed game dynamics. Many feared a repeat of Red Alert 3 and its dubious departures from C&C design canon. However, while the game dynamic has, indeed, been drastically overhauled, the overall feel [...]

If there’s one area where Sony’s consoles excel, it’s in the abundance of character-driven action games each machine has had. It’s no stretch to say that Sony has enjoyed a lineup of easily identifiable characters possibly second only to Nintendo. Over the years we’ve had Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter [...]

I remember when the PS3 had just been launched, and the Xbox 360 had been around for about a year — back when the term “next gen” was still being used frequently. A worryingly large contingent of gamers kept on whining about how “next gen” games were nothing more than [...]

In 1999, mankind faces an unprecedented threat of an extraterrestrial nature: violent human abduction by UFOs and hideous experimentation are increasing rapidly, creating mass hysteria amongst the world’s populace. All attempts by individual countries to resist the aliens have failed dismally [...]

After nearly a decade of waiting, fans of the Aliens versus Predator games were beginning to wonder if they’d ever get another acid-spraying, head-biting, marine-disemboweling fright fest. Sure, we’ve had the movies to turn to in the meantime, but let’s face it, those atrocities were more like a kick in the pants than a decent [...]

I often wonder what it must be like to work for a games studio, creating the sequel to a game that was highly acclaimed and won its fair share of Game of the Year Awards. Sure, you might surprise gamers and reviewers the first time round, but next time everyone will be watching closely. Well, [...]

I’m not an avid Bioware fan, but I must admit, I was waiting with bated breath among the Bioware fanatics for the release of Mass Effect 2 – the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed RPGs of 2008 with exciting shooting elements and in-depth character interaction. Mass Effect 2, like its predecessor, is [...]

I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way, but I love it when a fledgling games studio offers up their first big work for gamers to enjoy. I always hope to see the beginning of another big player’s career in the industry. Recently, we had the opportunity to enjoy that kind of [...]

I didn’t want to admit it, I really didn’t. As a loyal follower and advocate of the Devil May Cry series, I didn’t want to think that another extreme action game could come close to Devil May Cry’s sheer style and purity, let alone surpass it. But after thoroughly testing every aspect of Bayonetta, I [...]

If I could narrow my videogame concept wish list down to only a handful of ideas that I’ve always hoped would be turned into a videogame, one of the remaining items would be a game which allows us to engage in frantic ground-based combat and swooping, barrel-rolling air combat, with seamless transitions in between. Some [...]

For the most part, “games of the movie” tend to be pretty crap. You know the type: rushed out the door to coincide with the film release, lacking in everything but licensed voice actors, and filled with pitiful attempts to rake in the film-loving crowd with gratuitous recreations of “that cool part in the movie [...]