Preview by Shaan J. The video game industry, and the people involved with it, is slowly moving in a direction that I can more easily relate to. Sure, we still have our problems (last year was riddled with controversies, scandals, and more broken games than needed), but it’s hard to…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. If the Wall Street Journal is to be believed, Microsoft is close to sealing a deal that will see the company acquire Mojang, the folks behind Minecraft, for $2 billion dollars. “For Microsoft, “Minecraft” could reinvigorate the company’s 13-year-old Xbox videogame business by giving it a…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. When it rains, it pours. Five years ago MMOs were at best a novelty on consoles. Now we’ve got the likes of the brilliant Final Fantasy XIV, and Perfect World is getting in on the action by bringing free-to-play MMO, Neverwinter, to the Xbox One, with…
Read MoreReview by Shaan J. Unlike Matt and Nick, when they reviewed of the PlayStation 3 and PC versions of the game (respectively), I come to Dark Souls 2 with much less experience of the series, though that doesn’t mean that I’m left entirely in the dark. I’ve dabbled with both…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. So we’ve just concluded all of the major conferences for the E3 show, not including Nintendo’s video feed for tomorrow morning. This means that we essentially know all of the big blockbuster games for the year, and we know precisely what each of the major players…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. Microsoft’s 2014 E3 press conference has just concluded. Didn’t get to see the show live or simply forgot all the fine details? We’re on the case with a summary of everything that went down. Pre Show: Microsoft revealed an app that will keep track of achievements…
Read MoreReview by Shaan J. There’s always been a great sense of purity and simplicity to Popcap’s Peggle series, and it’s this feeling that has kept me coming back, year after year, to this odd mishmash of pachinko and pinball. In an era of free-to-play games and lengthy campaigns, Peggle is…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. The Wolf Among Us started off feeling very familiar as it used many of the same mechanics found in previous Telltale franchises such as The Walking Dead or Back to the Future. The idea of a narrative-heavy experience with some important choices to be made along…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. LEGO The Hobbit ticks all of the boxes I have come to expect from the LEGO titles by TT Games. There are recognisable places and faces from an existing property, lots of jumping and button mashing action, plenty of puzzles and a great deal of humour…
Read MoreOpinion by Jim S. Everyone likes a top-10 list. They’re a bit of fun, and always good for discussion. And so every so often 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…
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