The weekend discussion: “What do you look for in a game?”

“Fun.” That’s the obvious answer to this week’s discussion, but there are many different ways a game can be fun. My question to all our lovely readers is: “what makes a game fun for you?” Is it a tightly-written narrative, flat-out humour, innovative gameplay, quality multiplayer…. or something entirely different?…

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Death Rally revs it up again on PC

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Classic car combat title Death Rally is set to assault PC’s one more time this August. Remedy first released DR back in 1996 on the Personal Computer platform. Now the top down racer has been totally rebuilt with both a new graphics engine and brand new art style. The game…

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A very impressive little FPS hit the iOS App Store today from developer Madfinger. Dead Trigger might be one of the best looking shooters on the platform. To say that DT’s visuals are ‘console quality’ isn’t all that much of a stretch. I mean, yes it is another zombie game,…

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There’s been a couple of high-profile industry veterans who have recently expressed frustration over the way fans behave in the games industry. Both Nintendo of America managing director, Reggie Fils-Aime, and the man behind Tekken, Katsuhiro Harada, have become rather bemused by the response they endure at the hands of…

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