Owing to Episode 4’s lacklustre experience, I was somewhat hesitant to venture into this, the final chapter of Sam & Max Season 3. The good news is that I needn’t have been; The City That Dares Not Sleep proved to be a good ending to an overall enjoyable season. At the end of Episode 4 [...]

Some 26 years ago, two students, Ian Bell and David Braben (who went on to become a rock-star game developer) met at Cambridge and compared notes on games they were both working on, and pooled their efforts to release one of the most influential games of all time, Elite. While this was not the first [...]

If you were around in the 16-Bit console era, then this one probably needs no introduction. Back then, console gamers didn’t have a whole lot of genres to choose from like we do today, and we were pretty much stuck with fighters, shooters, sports, the occasional racer and platformers, lots and lots of platformers. But [...]

I’m trying to figure out another way to open this review without sounding like an old git harping on about the good old days and the forgotten art of graphic adventure games – but it doesn’t seem like there’s any other way to do it. At any rate, one of the most famous and well-loved [...]

This is the story of man, a hero to the downtrodden, a protector of the weak, a wearer of a purple thong, and, most importantly, a dispenser of justice – like, really, I’m not kidding here, he dispenses justice, like a… soap dispenser, or something. More on that later. The hero is question is named [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s one of those inevitable incidents, like the next rainstorm or power-outage, and it’s something we’ve just come to accept as part of gaming culture: the next FPS game. Since the phenomenon was set in motion roughly 15 years ago by Doom, we’ve had to endure FPS releases almost on a monthly basis. Thankfully, most [...]

The Gobliiins Pack includes three games. These are Gobliiins, Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon, and Goblins 3. No, I’ve not committed some grievous spelling error – INCONTHIEVABLE! – but instead, the number of ‘i’s in the title represents the number of playable characters in each game. In an exceedingly clever twist, this sequence is perfectly inverted in series iterations.

We really have to thank Capcom for giving us match-ups we never could have dreamed of with their trademark “versus” series of fighting games, which let us experience battles between characters from different videogames and beyond. Well, that time has come again, and this time Capcom has decided to pluck a crew of characters from [...]

After playing this game for five minutes or so, I started feeling excited. It wasn’t the hilarious references to dialogue from previous King’s Quest titles, nor the reappearance of just about every main character from every King’s Quest title ever. It wasn’t even because Graham looks kinda like Michael Palin from Monty Python. No, I [...]

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 [...]

Over the years there have been numerous games that expand on the popular Naruto anime series, some good and some terrible. Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 (CNR3) is the most recent of these and brings a competent fighter to the Wii. CNR3 features a host of characters from the show (including the more [...]

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. [...]

And in other news, Japanese game narratives continue to vindicate my theory that they’re unremittingly sh**. Then there’s the usual cast of precocious, self-important preteens – including the requisite androgynous male in short, short pants and fetish boots – supported by the world’s worst voice cast [...]

The release of UFC 2009 Undisputed was something of an event. I remember gamers walking into stores months in advance of the game’s arrival asking if the store had it in stock yet, and it sold like the clappers when it finally arrived. I don’t know much about the sport in reality, but I must [...]