As we recently argued, Apple’s snub of E3 is a bit of a downer for the convention’s credentials as the “go to” show for the year of gaming ahead. Apple of course holds its own event at the same time, and an announcement over there has, essentially, kicked E3 where…
Read MoreE3 positions itself as the biggest, most important convention for the games industry. Here is the place where the big announcements are made and the who’s who of the most important game developers, publishers, and console manufacturers come together to not only show us what we’ll be playing over the…
Read MoreCertain crossover games seem to come under fire for having decidedly random characters thrown into sometimes unfitting contexts. If you thought last year’s Pokémon X Nobunaga or the recent Project X Zone were strange, Telltale is looking to shock you again by cranking up the weirdness to unparalleled levels. If…
Read MoreAnd just like that that iPad has one of the greatest BioWare RPGs, and the greatest Star Wars game, ever developed. The port of Knights of the Old Republic to the iPad has lost nothing in translation. It has picked up no bugs along the way. This is the game…
Read MoreEveryone likes a top-10 list. They’re a bit of fun, and always good for discussion. And so each week we pull together a “top 10” list. These are here for fun and laughs – we’re not pretending that we’re the authority of good games taste in the world and this…
Read MoreOur friends over at Pocket Tactics have a little story that should be of great interest to everyone who has an iPad. The classic Star Wars RPG, Knights of the Old Republic, is getting a port to the Apple platform. Generally regarded as one of the greatest Star Wars games…
Read MoreThe original Sonic the Hedgehog was released for the Sega Mega Drive over 20 years ago. Considering it has been released more than 20 times since then though, you likely already knew that. Presumably in an effort to compete against the likes of Nintendo and Namco for most re-releases of…
Read MoreTetris Blitz is everything that is wrong with freemium gaming boiled down into one exploitative little game that bears the Tetris name, but contains none of the Tetris gameplay. Here is a game that has taken a formula so addictive and perfect that nothing needed to be done to it…
Read MoreBossa Studios is one of the more creative independent developers to emerge out of the UK in recent years. Most recently its has been lighting up the indie scene with the brilliantly-comical Surgeon Simulator 2013, and it was an innovator in that it is one of the early adopters when…
Read MoreFrozen Synapse is compelling now as it was when it was released on PC two years ago. Within this game is some very valuable lessons that many much bigger developers can learn – sometimes keeping things clean and simple results in greater depth. Frozen Synapse is a tactics strategy game…
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