Remember Jeremy McGrath’s Supercross franchise that spanned two games over consoles from the Nintendo 64 to the Playstation 2? No, me neither. Either way the world famous supercross star McGrath is ... Read More
Tony hasn't aged well in recent years. Not even slightly, with Tony Hawk's Ride and Shred effectively destroying the franchise as we knew it. Having finally accepted that the modern THPS games were re... Read More
Lego games have a formula that works. Take on an existing popular property, give it a Lego twist, wrap it up in oodles of charm, back it up with some solid if predictable gameplay mechanics, and the... Read More
Rainbow Moon is a pretty nifty old-school game which uses turn based mechanics, and believe it or not has quite a bit of content for what is an arcade game. I was initially surprised at how polished e... Read More
Tell me about the Rabbids, George. In Rabbids: Alive & Kicking - not to be confused with the 90s children's programme presented by Zoe Ball and Jamie Theakston - you're essentially the embodime... Read More
I sometimes find myself watching a film or TV show and wondering to myself, wouldn't this make a better book? I in fact have this frustrating habit with most forms of media, constantly questioning whe... Read More
With The Amazing Spider-Man, Activision and developer Beenox have done a solid job of bringing Spidey to the small screen, his latest outing arguably one of his best for many years. Plotwise it picks ... Read More
Here again, for the third time in less than a year, I am faced with a rather unique conundrum: that of reviewing a pinball game. A bad pinball game is still easy to review, noting as I can all the s... Read More
This generation has seen multiple genuinely great, quirky games being developed for and published via Xbox Live and Playstation Network, the digital delivery networks for both those platforms. The exi... Read More
Having spent what feels like forever trying to dominate the 3D platformer, Sonic Team have finally noticed that they weren't fooling anyone, and have since returned to the 2D realm with the help of co... Read More
Airtight Games took on Portal 2 co-creator Kim Swift as Project Lead for Quantum Conundrum. As a result, Portal forms a lot of the essence here - and yet, so much of it's own creativity just seeps thr... Read More
Ever since the Vita version of Metal Gear Solid HD Collection was revealed, it was something I had to play being such a big Metal Gear nut. The Vita version is a fantastic port considering these were ... Read More
The original Duels of the Planeswalkers seemed to come out of nowhere back in 2009, and it managed to reignite my long lost love of Magic and of card games in general. Fast forward three years and I'm... Read More
There's usually a problem reviewing pinball games, and that is that these games are what they are- pinball simulators that either play well, or they don't, and there is nothing more to be said about t... Read More
Bethesda's legendary Elder Scrolls series of role playing games got another installment last November. Skyrim took the world by storm, achieving mainstream success that few games ever manage, breaki... Read More
As a self-professed lover of all things anime and most decent JRPGs, I was surprised that I received a review copy of an animé style role playing game I hadn't heard of. As someone who is obsessed wi... Read More
People can forget all their values and humanity when it comes to the question of pure survival. We've seen it happen before where even eating worms is an option for some precious protein. Just make t... Read More
Ratchet and Clank games have been a bit of an anomaly on the PS3, missing the fun, innovation and charm that its PS2 counterparts possessed. This is strictly my opinion obviously,... Read More
When EA announced that this year's UEFA Euro game tie-in wouldn't be a full fledged retail release, rather a DLC for last year's excellent FIFA 12, I was glad and disappointed at the same time. I was ... Read More
'War does not determine who is right, only who is left', a timeless war-is-hell quote from late Welsh philosopher Bertrand Russell. The problem with games, as a whole, is that they very rarely develop... Read More
