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Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad Review

Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad Review

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 Hawk’s Pro Skater HD Review

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD Review

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 Batman 2: DC Super Heroes Review

Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes Review

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 Review

Rainbow Moon Review

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

Rabbids: Alive and Kicking review

Rabbids: Alive and Kicking review

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

Hoodwink Review

Hoodwink Review

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

The Amazing Spider-Man Review

The Amazing Spider-Man Review

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

Marvel Pinball Avengers Chronicles Review

Marvel Pinball Avengers Chronicles Review

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

Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat Review

Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat Review

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

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 Review

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 Review

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

Quantum Conundrum Review

Quantum Conundrum Review

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

Metal Gear Solid HD Collection Review (PS Vita)

Metal Gear Solid HD Collection Review (PS Vita)

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

Magic The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 Review

Magic The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 Review

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

Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue Review

Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue Review

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

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Dawnguard Review

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Dawnguard Review

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

Fate Extra Review

Fate Extra Review

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

The Walking Dead: Episode 2 – ‘Starved for Help’ Review

The Walking Dead: Episode 2 – ‘Starved for Help’ Review

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 HD Collection Review

Ratchet and Clank HD Collection Review

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

FIFA 12- UEFA Euro 2012 Review

FIFA 12- UEFA Euro 2012 Review

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

Spec Ops: The Line review

Spec Ops: The Line review

'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

Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor Review

Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor Review

It seems that all those calls for hardcore Kinect games have finally been answered in Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor. With this futuristic tank sim, Capcom is providing a game that not only redefines th... Read More

Dr Who: The Eternity Clock Review

Dr Who: The Eternity Clock Review

With the likes of The Walking Dead and Tintin, there’s been an influx of TV-based games of late. Equally there’s been a resurgence in the side-scrolling platformer, with Rayman Origins among the h... Read More

Lollipop Chainsaw Review

Lollipop Chainsaw Review

Weird. Wacky. Bizarre. Surreal. Suda51 has a penchant for making, shall we say, unconventional video games. Always highly stylized and incredibly satirical, his video games feature over the top cha... Read More

Game of Thrones Review

Game of Thrones Review

Whenever any media property becomes too popular, there will be a video game made on it. It's like a law of the universe. And with Game of Thrones, the video games have been a long time coming. When ... Read More

Gravity Rush Review

Gravity Rush Review

Gravity Rush was first released in Japan and was met with some overwhelming praise by critics and gamers alike due to its unique gameplay mechanics. As the name implies, you twist gravity to navigate ... Read More

Warlock: Master of the Arcane Review

Warlock: Master of the Arcane Review

Warlock: Master of the Arcane is a turn-based strategy game which allows you to dominate your foes and provides you three classes to master and exploit. Paradox is no stranger to games like these, and... Read More

Babel Rising Review

Babel Rising Review

Babel Rising is a god game from Ubisoft, and much like their previous game From Dust, this one requires you to use your godly powers. There's one difference though, in this game you use the powers to ... Read More

Forza Motorsport 4 Porsche DLC Review

Forza Motorsport 4 Porsche DLC Review

Turn 10's support for Forza 4 has been admirable so far with the studio releasing its latest DLC which brings in what fans wanted the most - Porsches. The latest DLC for the game brings in 30 Porsche ... Read More

Jungle Kartz Review

Jungle Kartz Review

I've recently seen a rather unusual turn around in the cultural perception of the Wii. What started out as as little more than a joke cast off by the “hardcore” 360 and PS3 owners, high quality Wi... Read More

Tribes Ascend Review

Tribes Ascend Review

The trajectory of the status of first person shooters in the industry is a telling one. The genre has always been inordinately popular, thanks in no small part because of its focus on killing and shoo... Read More