We’ve had Call of Duty’s Modern Warfare 2 (and we await Black Ops with interest), and Battlefield’s Bad Company 2, but the latest entrant into the popular and profitable, real-world theatre-of-war FPS market comes with an equally long and proud history (thank you so much Mr Spielberg!). Yes, Medal of Honor is back! Many rumours, [...]
Thu, July 29 2010 » PC, Previews » 2 Comments
First person shooters has been somewhat of a hit or miss genre on Nintendo consoles. Whilst we marvel at the greatness of GoldenEye or Turok, we also have to live with the likes of The Conduit, they are either absolutely spot on, or abysmally bad. These days Nintendo strive to develop some of the most accessible, family friendly games on the market, I’m of the opinion that they should also pump a bit of that cash they’ve got lying around into a sequel for the little gaming gem I’m going to talk to you about today, XIII (or 13 if you don’t know your Roman numerals).
Wed, July 21 2010 » Articles, Thoroughly Underrated Games You Probably Should Play » 5 Comments
Audiosurf garnered quite a lot of attention when it was released in February 2008. Reviewers loved it (it has a metacritic score of 85), and it won two IGF awards that year. I noticed the coverage, but as someone who plays mostly RPGs, strategy games and FPSs, I couldn’t see space in my collection for [...]
Wed, July 14 2010 » Articles » No Comments
Game: Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx Format: Xbox 360 Developer: Gearbox Software Publisher: 2K Games The Newb Review Game of the Year nominee Borderlands received it’s third piece of downloadable content last week, and to cut to the chase, it is brilliant. After the shambolic mess that is Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot which [...]
Fri, March 5 2010 » PC, PS3, Reviews, X-Box 360 » No Comments
Game: Aliens Versus Predator Platform: Xbox 360 Developer: Rebellion Publisher: Sega UK based developer Rebellion are no strangers to the Aliens Versus Predator (AVP) franchise. One of their first games was AVP for the Atari Jaguar, which is widely considered to be one of the console’s finest games. They returned to the franchise in 1999 [...]
Wed, March 3 2010 » PS3, Reviews, X-Box 360 » 3 Comments
Game: Bioshock Format: PS3 Developer: Irrational Games, 2K Marin Publisher: 2K Games Bioshock is a first person shooter set during an alternate history in 1960. Playing as Jack, the sole survivor of a plane crash, you must explore the underwater dystopia of Rapture whilst battling against mutated beings and mechanical drones that populate the city. [...]
Mon, February 15 2010 » PS3, Reviews » 8 Comments
Game: Borderlands: Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot Format: Xbox 360 Developer: Gearbox Software Publisher: 2KGames Any devoted readers of our site will know how popular last year’s Borderlands was amongst the staff. We must have loved it, because it was one of our nominations for Game of the Year. The real joy we found in Borderlands came from [...]
Thu, January 28 2010 » Reviews, X-Box 360 » 2 Comments
Game: Mass Effect 2 Format: Xbox 360 Developer: BioWare Publisher: Electronic Arts Finally reaching us some two years after the original, Mass Effect 2 has more than a little anticipation and hype. Any gaming fan has been left drooling over teaser footage as this sequel brings back the primary protagonist, Shepard, to once again kick ass and take names throughout [...]
Wed, January 27 2010 » PC, Reviews, X-Box 360 » 7 Comments
With all the merriness and festivities that came with Christmas and New Year, I thought I’d stop the world from exploding (you can thank me later) by balancing it all out with some good old fashioned anger and misery.
Yes you may accuse me of cheaply bashing “Fallout 3”just to provoke reaction and enrage people into commenting and emailing me in order to gain a few extra visitors to the site and you know what? You’re right (well partly).
I know how beloved “Fallout 3” is to a lot of you gaming folk out there, so beloved in fact that it’s spawned multiple DLC packs and a “game of the year” edition of the game. But I just don’t get it.
Tue, January 12 2010 » Articles, Massively Overrated Games You Probably Should Avoid, X-Box 360 » 15 Comments
Game: N.O.V.A Format: iPhone/iPod Touch Developer: Gameloft Publisher: Gameloft Gameloft are one of the biggest developer/publishers on iPhone/iPod (that’s the last time I’ll mention the iSiblings real names as I hate writing them like that). They’re closing a lot of big deals to remake classics and port established series onto the mobile platform as well as [...]
Tue, January 5 2010 » Other formats, Reviews, iPhone / iPod » 1 Comment
