The number of genuinely great games based on movies is infamously small; for every GoldenEye or Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay there are a dozen lazy licensed tie-ins. You would hopefully have forgiven our initial cynicism, the…
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I've been playing PC games since I was 14, and every time I’m infected by that awful nostalgia that tells me gaming has never been as good as it was 1998-2005, the same realisation washes across me: we are on the cusp. What c…
Over the last couple of weeks there has been a storm in a teacup about some questionable tweets by John Stewart’s Daily Show replacement, Trevor Noah. Trawling through the comedian’s twitter history results in some rather tastele…
Edwin says… Shinra is very promising on paper a holistic approach to cloud computing that seemingly has as much to offer smaller studios as the Ubisoft Montreals of this world. What’s most impressive is its ostensible flexibilit…
Sid Meier’s Starships was a letdown. But it may yet hold the secret for saving gaming from itself...
Luc Besson recently released a motion picture with a far-fetched, yet eerily plausible premise: that Scarlett Johansson only uses 10% of her brain. Should the full power of her latent mind-flesh be unleashed, what might she accom…
It’s been a slow start for Sony in its home territory. Worringly so, in fact, to the point where it looked as though interest in home consoles could actually have bottomed out entirely. Over the last month or so, though, a string…
So, at the time of writing, it’s been 18 months since the current generation of videogames consoles kicked off. We saw Microsoft stumble at the first hurdle with a disastrous PR campaign and more U-turns than a modern British go…
Look to the movies, and the blockbuster is dying. Check out sport, and football’s showcase Premier League isn’t what it used to be. Think about triple-A gaming, and the lustre seems to have faded somewhat. We’re living in a perio…
Survival games have made a name for themselves recently. Even two years ago, there was little notion of a discrete survival genre a term that still takes some chewing over. Today, the Steam charts seethe with such games, most of …
Only a few developers can be said to own an entire style of game. You might have described something as an ‘id shooter’ a couple of years ago, but the association doesn’t quite stick any more after all, the best ‘id shooter’ of t…
