As usual, I decided to hop onto the PlayStation Network last night to see if anything new or interesting had been made available. After all, I’ve got my uncapped connection now, it would be nice if I could get some use out of it. I was expecting the usual barrage of Minis, trailers, themes and [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to Oddworld, home of the Magog Cartel’s premiere consumer industrial facilities, and SoulStorm Brew™. When RuptureFarms 1029 carelessly exhausts the local population of Meeches, grinding its production of the immensely popular novelty meat snack Meech Munchies™ to an abrupt and potentially commercially devastating halt, CEO Molluck the Glukkon turns a prospective eye to the [...]

If you’ve been keeping up with the news items in the last few weeks, you will know that when Trine went on sale, it became the top selling item on the Euro PlayStation Network (the one we connect to) for that month. When you actually sit down to play the game, you’ll find that there’s [...]

“Imitation,” goes the reliably quotable aphorism, “is the sincerest form of flattery.” It’s also the surest form of instant cash if you’re cloning the good stuff, so when the concept guys over at Chair Entertainment HQ first sat down to design a game that would basically print money, someone suggested, “Metroidvania” and everyone else squealed, [...]

Ultra-high-tech-indestructible-super-space-cyber-suit? Check. Plasma blaster? Check. Cow? Check. Groovy! Originally released in 1994, Earthworm Jim is a platform shooter that follows the adventures of the eponymous annelid.  Crawling along, eating dirt, Jim was just an average earthworm until the Super Suit fell from the sky and changed everything. Now he must rescue Princess What’s-Her-Name from the [...]

Dear Mario, Please come to the castle. I’ve baked a cake for you. Now I’m totally inviting you over to share it with me, but I’ve a horrid feeling this afternoon is going to go all wrong. See, I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but whenever you come over to visit, I get myself kidnapped. [...]

So there’s this thing stuck up a tree. It’s straightforward hero business so far – we’ve been doing this butch tree rescue stuff since Quest for Glory 1. Of course, getting a thing out of a tree in that game meant grinding out your climbing stat for 20 minutes, so you could shimmy up a [...]