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Super Meat Boy Ultra Edition Review

Super Meat Boy Ultra Edition Review

After a rapturous reception on the Xbox 360 last year, non-console owning gamers can now grab an ultra big slice of perhaps one of the most satisfying – and intensely irritating, frustrating and add... Read More

Renegade Ops Review

Renegade Ops Review

Renegade Ops surprised me a lot. To an extent that I just keep on recommending the game to everyone. What makes it so good? Yes, let’s forget about everything else and I’m going to tell you the ... Read More

Gears of War 3 Review

Gears of War 3 Review

Here we are the final chapter in developers Epic's epic trilogy, Gears of War 3.  Gears of War 3 is an amazing game that you must play.  In all seriousness the game is easily the the best out of any... Read More

Ugly Americans: Apocalyspegeddon Review

Ugly Americans: Apocalyspegeddon Review

Do you love stick shooters? Can’t get enough of the Comedy Central television series “Ugly Americans”? If you answered yes to both of these questions then boy do I have the game for you! Ugly Am... Read More

Starfox 64 3DS Review

Starfox 64 3DS Review

Take a moment and flashback to the year 1997, a year that is arguably one of the best for video games of all time. Counted among the best that year had to offer are games such as Final Fantasy VII, Go... Read More

God of War: Origins Collection Review

God of War: Origins Collection Review

God of War: Ghost of Sparta was one of our favourite games last year, and anybody who read our review, in which we gave it a 9.5/10, would know how much we loved the game, and Chains of Olympus was no... Read More

El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron Review

El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron Review

It’s not often that even a few hours into a game you still have little idea what’s going on but El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is one of those games. It’s described as a third person comb... Read More

Pirates of Black Cove Review

Pirates of Black Cove Review

My impressions on booting up Pirates of Black Cover for the first time (wow, this looks really good) and my impressions on playing more of the game (why the hell am I even playing this?) are so much i... Read More

Bodycount (Xbox 360) Review

Bodycount (Xbox 360) Review

As plots go, Bodycount’s is pretty forgettable. As far as I can see it’s got something to do with you working for a clandestine organization called The Network – the guys who are sent to tackle ... Read More

Warhammer 40k: Space Marine Review

Warhammer 40k: Space Marine Review

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="505"] Captain Titus and Mira[/caption] Picture an entire world that you can only see from a distance.  You can only have limited interactions all from a d... Read More

Driver: San Francisco Review

Driver: San Francisco Review

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

Resistance 3 Review

Resistance 3 Review

There haven’t been many games made where you have nothing worth fighting for, or have no chance of completely eliminating the enemy. Resistance 3 portrays that scenario. The game takes place in th... Read More

Ms Splosion Man Pinball FX 2 Table Review

Ms Splosion Man Pinball FX 2 Table Review

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="505"] The Sploding Table[/caption] Pinball FX 2 seems to just keep pumping out more and more pinball tables adding Achievements/Trophies, that I really don... Read More

Bodycount Review

Bodycount Review

Bodycount, by Codemasters, is the latest addition to the first person shooter genre. I spent some time with this game and if I had to sum it up in one word, it would be “disappointing”. The game s... Read More

Dead Island Review

Dead Island Review

By now nearly all of you must have seen, or at least heard about, the reveal trailer for Dead Island – the haunting video about a family getaway that goes bad. Really bad! Happy, smiling faces quick... Read More

Agarest: Generations of War Zero Review

Agarest: Generations of War Zero Review

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

Splinter Cell HD Review

Splinter Cell HD Review

Remember how cool it felt back in 2002 to shimmy up drainpipes, leap over walls and creep about in the shadows before punching someone in the back of the head? I’m of course referring to the introdu... Read More

Sharkoon X-Tatic SR Multi-Platform Gaming Headset Review

Sharkoon X-Tatic SR Multi-Platform Gaming Headset Review

I myself, even as it is my job to know certain things, have fallen victim to only thinking of Turtle Beach or ASTRO, when gaming headsets come to mind at times.  The bottom line is that you better st... Read More

Deus Ex: Human Revolution (PS3) Review

Deus Ex: Human Revolution (PS3) Review

The author of this review and the author of the Xbox 360 version review are different persons, and their views may differ. To read our Xbox 360 version review of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, click here.... Read More

Street Fighter III – 3rd Strike Online Edition Review

Street Fighter III – 3rd Strike Online Edition Review

Capcom has yet released another Street Fighter title, as they seem to keep pumping them our or at least Street Fighter related games at a rapid rate.  This time it is Street Fighter III - 3rd Strike ... Read More

Crazy Machines Elements Review

Crazy Machines Elements Review

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

Fighting Fantasy: The Talisman of Death Review

Fighting Fantasy: The Talisman of Death Review

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

Carnivores: Ice Age Review

Carnivores: Ice Age Review

A decade after its debut on the PC, Carnivores: Ice Age has reappeared as a Minis game on the PSN. For the uninitiated, it’s a shooter with the sole intention of gunning down various beasts with an ... Read More

The Adventures of Shuggy Review

The Adventures of Shuggy Review

Shuggy is a vampire whose grandfather just died, and with him kicking the bucket, Shuggy inherited a house, infested with other vampires, poltergeists, zombies, robotic chickens and other unruly, weir... Read More

MLB Bobblehead Pros Review

MLB Bobblehead Pros Review

One look at MLB Bobblehead Pros will make some people think that the game is nothing but shovelware, a cheap cash in with no quality at all. They might say a game with such charming visuals cannot be ... Read More

OMG-Z Review

OMG-Z Review

For anyone not sick to death of shooting dead things, developer Laughing Jackal has been busy and added yet another title to the burgeoning world of zombie games. But this monochrome PlayStation Minis... Read More

Madden NFL 12 Review

Madden NFL 12 Review

If there’s one thing you can count on from year to year in the video game industry, it’s that there will be a new Madden. It is perhaps because of this reliability that Madden itself has become a ... Read More

Bastion (PC) Review

Bastion (PC) Review

Bastion was released on Xbox Live only a few weeks back, and it caught out attention. We played it, and we loved it. Not only did we think it was the best downloadable game of this year, we also thoug... Read More

Cubixx HD Review

Cubixx HD Review

Back in 1981, Japanese games publisher Taito brought us an innovative new puzzler called Qix, which was subsequently ported to just about every games console known to man. Now, 30 years on, UK develop... Read More

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Review

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Review

Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a new and unique experience that I could not even sum up in words, but I will obviously do my best to try.  The game is a prequel to the last two games that were released... Read More