Hands on with Skara: The Blade Remains – A Pre-Alpha Preview
I suppose I should preface this review with an admission. I am not a regular consumer of games that are in alpha, beta, or otherwise unfinished. Given a limited games budget, I tend to reserve my money for finished products rat...
SATIRE: Why Ubisoft Was Right
A lot of controversy has been caused over the past few days by Ubisoft’s assertion that including female character models in Assassin’s Creed: Unity’s multiplayer would have been too time consuming and expensive. Lots of people...
In Defense of Sequels
So E3 has come and gone again. Games were revealed, journalists exhausted themselves, and the shiny replicant people that always seem to get the presentation jobs at the conferences have presumably headed back to the mothership...
E3 2014: EA Conference Review
First off, let me preface this summary of the 2014 EA E3 show by saying that I don’t really like EA. Sure, they’ve had a hand in the realization of some of my favorite game franchises, Dead Space and Mass Effect especially, b...
Road to E3 – Lies and Deceit
In just over a week, the Electronic Entertainment Expo will begin. Gamers all across the world are already salivating at the thought of all the games that will be revealed, the hardware shown off, and ultimately arguing with fr...
The Stigma of Blockbusters: Big Budget, Bigger Problems
Video games are expensive. This is an obvious and unavoidable fact. Anyone with even a cursory understanding of gaming will tell you that prices only ever seem to increase. The release of a new console generation has only hiked...
A Difficulty Issue
Back in the far off days of the 1980’s, video games were simple. Run from left to right, put the blocks in a line, collect the cherries and don’t get caught by the ghosts. But they were also difficult, the blocky gr...
Worth a Play – MadWorld
Straitjackets for Everyone In my previous entry to the Worth a Play series, I talked about House of the Dead: Overkill. It was a violent, ridiculous, hilarious game with an old school arcade feel that never got the recognition ...
Steam Machines: Overpowered, Overpriced, Over Here
In case you were living under a rock, last year, PC developer/retailer/overlords Valve announced that they would be sponsoring the creation of specific PCs, known as Steam Machines, to bring PC gaming to the masses. The initial...
Be Grateful for the Xbox One
Console War of Attrition I don’t like the Xbox One. I don’t hate it, because hate is something I reserve for bigots, escort missions and people who talk in the cinema. But the Xbox One is not a console that I have any parti...
The Waiting Game
Like many, if not most, people, I view the new console launches with mixed feelings. I feel excitement at the prospect of a whole new generation of gaming hardware, jubilation at the promise of shiny new toys and, on a more per...
Alone Interview: Oculus Rift and VR Horror
 “Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.†– Stephen King The horror genre is one undergoing someth...
Grand Theft Boredom
Grand Theft Auto V is the latest in the wildly popular GTA series. It took 5 year, cost £170 million ($270 million) to produce and has been touted as the soaring swan song of the current gaming generation. It earned over $1 bi...
Worth a Play – The House of the Dead: Overkill
The last Worth a Play feature was on the subject of Spec Ops: The Line, a dark, harrowing, morally compromising take on the current American military shooter, which didn’t aim to satirise the genre so much as eviscerate it. I...
Hero of The Week: Crash Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot Voice Actor: N/A Series: Crash Bandicoot Age: unknown Debut: Crash Bandicoot What Works Every gaming generation has characters it grew up playing. Form the early text based adventures that lived in fear of being...
