• From Pac-man to Paarthurnax: An Abridged History of Video Game Narrative

    From Pac-man to Paarthurnax: An Abridged History of Video Game Narrative

    “The cycle cannot be broken. The pattern has repeated itself more time than you can fathom.” Mantra, indictment, and a segment of a story arc brimming with Lovecraftian wonder; forty years of development distilled down into a single sentence. Forty [...]

  • Nochmal bitte! Germany bans Xbox

    Nochmal bitte! Germany bans Xbox

    I really wanted to refrain from national stereotypes, but cor, those Germans just don’t know how to have fun, do they? Well, that may be a little unfair. And by unfair, I mean Hitlarious. What’s actually happened is that a [...]

  • Black Ops 2 (almost) announced. November Release Date.

    Black Ops 2 (almost) announced. November Release Date.

    We all knew it was coming, but we’ve finally gotten irrefutable proof that the next Call of Duty title will be Black Ops 2. Treyarch and Activision have done a reasonably good job of keeping this out of the press, [...]

  • Arkham City: ‘Harley Quinn’s Revenge’ DLC Announced

    Arkham City: ‘Harley Quinn’s Revenge’ DLC Announced

    In the midst of all this Batman news (Arkham’s getting GOTY again!), I have a confession to make. I love Arkham City. It gets the superhero formula so right that I actually dread trying to play inFAMOUS again. And after [...]

  • Crysis 3 Announced, details and screenshots revealed

    Crysis 3 Announced, details and screenshots revealed

    After an accidental reveal of the game for pre-order via the EA online store Origin, the first real details are slowly being revealed about the upcoming second sequel to graphical powerhouse that was Crysis. Much like Crysis 2, the game [...]

  • Operation Shoreditch: Resi launch paints London red

    Operation Shoreditch: Resi launch paints London red

    Elite operatives congregate in an inner city safe house. A female guard stands watch outside; weary-eyed, pale and bloodied. Senior soldiers bark orders in the dank, smoky interior as the group gears up to help liberate…London?? The city has held [...]

  • [REVIEW] Mass Effect 3

    [REVIEW] Mass Effect 3

    One of the things I love about reviewing games after they’ve been released is being able to read other reviews. Not to steal content – I find far more creative ways to do that – but to look at how [...]

  • GAME set to hardcore difficulty – dire times ahead?

    GAME set to hardcore difficulty – dire times ahead?

    A band of us, scavangers and hunters mostly, picked at the body of the dying beast. A few shared murmurs of regret and sorrow filled the air as we took anything which looked like an easy target – PS2 games for pennies, [...]

 

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/ May 10, 2012 4:49 pm

From Pac-man to Paarthurnax: An Abridged History of Video Game Narrative

“The cycle cannot be broken. The pattern has repeated itself more time than you can fathom.” Mantra, indictment, and a segment of a story arc brimming with Lovecraftian wonder; forty years of development distilled down into a single sentence. Forty years which have proved the industry’s staying power in the face of the old media, and established it as a [...]

/ May 7, 2012 1:33 pm

[SPOILERS] Mass Effect 3 Ending: Indoctrination Theory

[THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING OF MASS EFFECT 3. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.] Ok, so many people (read: everyone) have been severely disappointed with all the endings of Mass Effect 3, myself included. I felt that it was an incredibly unfaithful and unsatisfying end to one of the bests franchises out there, and my opinion of Bioware sunk to [...]

/ May 3, 2012 2:38 am

Nochmal bitte! Germany bans Xbox

I really wanted to refrain from national stereotypes, but cor, those Germans just don’t know how to have fun, do they? Well, that may be a little unfair. And by unfair, I mean Hitlarious. What’s actually happened is that a German court has ruled against Microsoft in a long-running battle with phone giant (are they really that big? Maybe a [...]

/ May 1, 2012 1:54 am

NeoGAF Clouseau unearths Metroid Prime cut content

Metroid fans will have to wait a little longer for the game the series’ anniversary deserved, but that doesn’t mean the studio doesn’t care about the fans – or vice-versa. Through some extended sleuthing, disc exploring and Japanese site searches, user Mama Robotnik over at NeoGAF has compiled a thread full of content cut from the trilogy, culminating in this [...]

/ April 29, 2012 10:46 pm

Black Ops 2 (almost) announced. November Release Date.

We all knew it was coming, but we’ve finally gotten irrefutable proof that the next Call of Duty title will be Black Ops 2. Treyarch and Activision have done a reasonably good job of keeping this out of the press, but now that some actual merchandise is available it looks like an official announcement is right around the corner. The [...]

/ April 24, 2012 5:06 pm

CoD upstart forges next-gen studio

Very interesting. Of all the departures from staff at Infinity Ward and Treyarch – and there have been a lot of them – few would have predicted that the most recent dissenter would be the first into a big new project. Up stepped former Community Manager and PR guy Robert “fourzerotwo” Bowling to prove us all wrong. His new “developer [...]

/ April 23, 2012 11:05 pm

Arkham City: ‘Harley Quinn’s Revenge’ DLC Announced

In the midst of all this Batman news (Arkham’s getting GOTY again!), I have a confession to make. I love Arkham City. It gets the superhero formula so right that I actually dread trying to play inFAMOUS again. And after trawling through the game for hours hunting down every single last secret and fighting all those poor bad guys in [...]

/ April 19, 2012 10:14 pm

Dead Space 3 on the Horizon?

Dead Space 2 was my favourite game of 2011. It did everything a sequel was meant to do: update the graphics, continue the story and refine gameplay. Isaac Clarke never looked prettier, said more or hit harder. Until now it seems! IGN have recently linked to this webpage (which is in the process of being taken down as I type this, so [...]

/ April 18, 2012 9:34 pm

New Bond game to salute spy’s 50th

With the suited sleuther approaching 50 years of cinema stardom, Activision have announced a new title to be developed by British studio Eurocom: 007 Legends. Having crafted the highly playable 007: Nightfire way back in the last gen, and recently pitched in with a decent Goldeneye update, there is more reason to be excited about a new Bond game than [...]

/ April 17, 2012 3:39 pm

Red vs Blue characters help us remember Halo 4 release date!

Looks like the guys over at Rooster Teeth have been lucky enough to get their hands on Halo 4, and were kind enough (or ..commissioned to) create short in-game teasers revealing the release date and a very complicated way of remembering it (its November 6th by the way). Other than the helmets being the wrong variant, Halo 4 seems to [...]

/ April 16, 2012 12:56 pm

Crysis 3 Announced, details and screenshots revealed

After an accidental reveal of the game for pre-order via the EA online store Origin, the first real details are slowly being revealed about the upcoming second sequel to graphical powerhouse that was Crysis. Much like Crysis 2, the game will be released for PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, dropping in Spring 2013. Crysis 3 will be taking inspiration [...]

/ April 16, 2012 12:41 pm

Red PS3 heading to the UK

While we all wait for the announcement of the PS4 (or ‘Orbis’) we can at least look at these very pretty pictures of  the new red Playstation 3 which will soon be available in the UK. Previously only available to the Japanese, retailers in Blighty have started listing it for around £240 with a 320GB hard drive and a red [...]

/ April 7, 2012 2:28 pm

First Game Informer Halo 4 details and scans drop

If you are anything like me, ever since the announcement that the next issue of Game Informer would include a 14 page spread on Halo 4, you probably have been sat at your desk searching the depths of the internet for days hoping to discover the coveted Halo 4 major announcements and screens – unless you live in the US, [...]

/ April 6, 2012 8:31 pm

Notch announces ‘hard sci-fi’ MMO: 0x10c

I’m starting to regret the decision to go with hard science fiction. A lot of interesting gameplay elements are hard to explain well.. — Markus Persson (@notch) April 4, 2012 Minecraft guru and chief of the nerds Markus Persson (aka Notch) has given his next big project a name:  0×10ᶜ. According to the offical website, 0x10c its going to be a space [...]

/ April 3, 2012 7:10 pm

GameCity festival details to be announced in Nottingham

  GameCity – the annual games festival held in Nottingham – is set to announce details for the 2012 festival at a launch party on May 2nd, hosted by founder and life president of Edios Interactive, Ian Livingstone OBE. The GameCity festival is now in its 7th year and during the launch event next month dates, locations, headliners and other [...]