Only the Maddest: Since its reveal – long before the awesome Fury Road hit theatres – I’ve been quietly excited about Warner Bros.’ “Mad Max” video game. Developers Avalanche Studios seemed to understand a lot about what made the iconic M...[Read More]
Out of the Shadows? The Shadowrun returns series has been a brilliant pair of tactical RPGs. With another successful Kickstarter behind it, does this third entry move it beyond a cult hit? The Kickstarter promised a host of upgrades and improvements,...[Read More]
Thirty Years in the Making: “Super Mario Maker” is a very special game, and quite unlike anything Nintendo have produced before. This build-it-yourself Mario game is the culmination of dozens of experiments and evolutions that Nintendo as...[Read More]
Introducing the Hack & Shoot: “Devil’s Third” has been an on-again, off-again speck on the horizon for quite some time now, and then – almost without warning and extremely hard to believe – here it is. It made it. Against all odds Dev...[Read More]
Risen or Sunk? The latest in a long line of ‘enhanced,’ ‘remastered’ or just re-released games to hit the current platforms, Risen 3 promises additional content and a new graphics engine just for the PS4. Does it make it worth your cash? Story: About...[Read More]
A Rotten Return to Form: A few years ago ‘ZombiU‘ made for a very compelling reason to pick up the Wii U at launch. Demanding players be more contemplative and cautious than most zombie titles gave ZombiU a distinct flavour. Now that the ...[Read More]
Playing at Game Development? The two Toy Soldiers games were amongst my favourite XBLA titles. With Ubisoft now at the helm, does this first release on new consoles survive the switch to multiplatform and a new publisher intact? Storyline: The previo...[Read More]
Bravo Team? Tales from The Borderlands has been consistently funny from the outset, but the quality of the episodes has been a little inconsistent despite the extended release schedule. How does Escape Plan Bravo turn out? Storyline: Escape Plan Brav...[Read More]
Kill Your Darlings: Growing up with an older brother and a younger sister meant that I always had someone to play games with. Unfortunately that game was, more often than not, Gauntlet – a title so fluent in sibling rivalry that, had we been left to ...[Read More]
The Best Around: As a child in a one-console household, Rare made me grateful every single day that our family was a Nintendo family. Aside from being the pride of the UK development scene, Rare defined an era of gaming that would be difficult to mat...[Read More]
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