As the shooter genre continues to oversaturate and swamp the market like an enjoyably soulless plague, we see the third person shooter getting just as much attention these days as its first person sib... Read More
Do you know what really sucks about main characters? They always survive, no matter what. Indeed, the survival of main characters has become a staple of storytelling so entrenched that it can remove a... Read More
Online gaming is the big advance that our current generation will be remembered for. It's a practice that has been alive and well in the PC community for years, but the past few years have been the fi... Read More
[drop-cap]T[/drop-cap]op ten lists normally revolve around edifying that which is competent and successful but, honestly, who wants to read about good stuff? Sometimes it’s a hell of a lot more... Read More
There was a time back in late 2007 where Crysis was taking the PC community by storm and console owners, feeling left out of the loop, began anticipating a possible console conversion. I gave up on th... Read More
Us humans are rather habitual animals, craving what we know and understand. It is because of this that so many games revolve around human struggle, but there are many games that satisfy a curiosity of... Read More
Whilst war is a type of conflict regularly touched on in games, disease and illness is another form of adversity and struggle that many games hinge upon to a lesser degree. Whether it pissed us off, t... Read More
With the recent release of Dead Island, zombies are once again invading our TV sets and our gaming. It's not exactly the first time this has happened though, with the zombie sub-sect of survival horro... Read More
There was a time way back, when all I heard about was how great Driver was. Friends, magazines and adverts all conspired to show me that I needed to buy this game. So I did. Whilst I wouldn't say I wa... Read More
Some games can never catch a break. With the games industry being generally vocal about upcoming releases, the hype that usually surrounds big games can often backfire and create a negative response t... Read More
Ever since the dawn of the inventory years ago, games have been flooded with various tools, items and pieces of equipment over the years. Initially the reserve of RPGs and adventure games, extensive i... Read More
As PC gaming continues to loose out on the cash front to the supposedly more lucrative console market, we're seeing more and more dodgy PC ports of console games. These games are often much worse on P... Read More
There was a time long ago when games were much more pigheaded than they are now. You could normally pick up any game within seconds, as few titles revolved around anything more than obliterating every... Read More
Agarest: Generations of War (or Record of Agarest War as it was known in North America) returns with a new prologue story that furthers the title's engrossing strategy RPG gameplay. Sadly it proves to... Read More
[drop-cap]I[/drop-cap]n yet another obscure top ten list (as if you haven’t read enough of those already) we go into the nitty gritty of gaming’s past, present and near future to conside... Read More
Action and shooter titles are swamping the market at the moment, but there seems to be a general lack of satisfaction beginning to creep in with the humble FPS. Blowing people up is no longer enough; ... Read More
[drop-cap]T[/drop-cap]he moving parts and intricate details that make up outdoor environments have challenged developers since the dawn of time (or the dawn of the game’s industry at least.) Th... Read More
Didn't you just love Mouse trap as a kid? Sure it took ages to set up and it was a really standard board game aside from the mechanical pieces that barely worked anyway, but the joy of seeing these ma... Read More
Who doesn't remember choose your own adventure books in their youth? Endlessly drawing maps onto a separate sheet of paper to catalogue your adventures, keeping seven or eight bookmarks at your side s... Read More
[drop-cap]O[/drop-cap]f all the stereotypical settings that show up in games, forests tend to offer the most beautiful vistas. As a result of this though, they also tend to be the most challenging to ... Read More
