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Mad Max: The Road Warrior

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…

Revolution Games

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…

The Best Defence Is Taking Offence

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…

How Square enix is going to reinvent server-based processing for developers of all sizes

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…

Japan love PS4

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…