We’re creeping up on the two-year anniversary since Rockstar Games launched GTA V on PS3 and Xbox 360. In the meantime we’ve had shiny new PS4, Xbox One and PC versions, and a glut of improvements to the Online side of things, i…
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Whoever said all the good game titles had already been used might have been onto something. The early days of gaming gave us some absolute belters of tongue-twisting titles as bedroom coders looked to make their efforts stand out…
It doesn’t take an expert industry analyst to explain why your once treasured plastic axe has been gathering dust for the last few years. guitar hero sparked a revolution in 2005 that extended beyond the realm of gamers, but over…
Plenty of damage can be done in just 30 characters, from ill-judged tweets to drunken texts to your mother. but factor in time travel and those messages become the flutter of digital wings at the heart of a world-rebuilding butte…
You know it, we know it, Visceral knows it, EA knows it: Battlefield is renowned for its exceptional multiplayer and that’s precisely what everyone is looking for whenever a new entry comes along. In some respects, Visceral’s fir…
We all have our reasons for not doing something, and Dr. Alan Grant had more than most when he decided not to endorse Jurassic Park. From the ill-tempered T-Rex that stalked him and his pals, to the Velociraptors who just wouldn’…
Modest is a unique boy with a rather expansive imagination. The problem, however, lies in the fact that he has a rather rare mental disorder which prevents him from distinguishing between reality and fantasy. His friends and fami…
For a long time, playing Mortal Kombat has been a lot like maintaining that embarrassing hold-over friendship from school. You know the one. They were never the smartest of the bunch, but they were funny, and back then that was e…
Do you still have a forgotten Guitar Hero peripheral stashed away in your home? In the cupboard, attic or garden shed? Go find it. Remember the good times? Of course you do. Clickety-clacking the buttons of that flimsy toy in tim…
Not all that long ago, Croteam was synonymous with knowingly silly shooter Serious Sam and teasing game pirates with invincible pink scorpions. So this chin-stroking first-person puzzler was a surprise when it hit PC late last ye…
Who doesn’t love a good LEGO game? The hugely-popular kids toy has been the subject of many video games, usually tying in with some of the latest films on the circuit and this year is going to be no different. One of the most-ant…
This should be so simple: there’s a new monster and four new hunters available. But good crikey, the pricing appears to have been devised by the devious mind of The Riddler himself. For example, new monster the Behemoth, which w…
Were there a sports-style rankings system for #firstworldproblems, The Show developer Sony San Diego’s current plight would surely perch close to its summit. So great has its baseball series become over the last decade, so close …
Since shinji mikami redefined the series a decade ago, Resident Evil has been in the throes of an extended identity crisis. while Revelations 2 ’s campaign flip-flops entertainingly between resource-light survival horror and gun-…
The sprawling multiplayer shoot-outs of Battlefield: Hardline have as much in common with real police work as a food fight does with gourmet cuisine. what if they were a little more true-to-life? imagine if your team of enforce…
The planet Lumenox’s four deities Dawn, Day, Night and Dusk have lived in perfect balance for centuries, a balance struck after a great war between them. But when Night starts getting greedy, wanting more time in control, Dawn re…
Virtually everyone is jumping of the remaster bandwagon these days, thanks to the fact that the last few crops of games for the PS3 and Xbox 360 were really great more than warranting a reworking for newer platforms. Joining the …
Roguelike games aren’t likely to disappear any time soon in fact, the quasi-genre is starting to span other genres quite a lot, so we’re seeing more and more games that are less and less like the original Rogue game that spawned …
Everyone seems to have their own favourite fighting game, and rivalries between the players of franchises can lead to some heated arguments (if you travel in those circles, of course). But it is undeniable that Mortal Kombat, as …
Few genres can match fighting games for staying power. It’s hardly the only type of game template to span three decades, but which others have held so true to their original vision and form? In fighting games, advances in process…
