Okay, okay, so it’s nearly here. Ever since the first trailer emerged way back in November 2011 – and that’s not a typo – we geeks and lovers of all things GTA have been hanging onto every nuance of information [...]
Launched in the fall of 2007, Bioware’s Mass Effect franchise filled the western space opera vacuum left by the cancellations and finales of Star Trek, Stargate, and Battlestar Galactica. Spanning three games, its overarching storyline revolved around Commander Shepard and [...]
Within the last couple of weeks we’ve had two Nintendo Direct videos online detailing new Pokemon games in the form of Pokemon X and Pokemon Y, and then a huge wave of Wii U news, detailing the likes of The [...]
You know that feeling you get when you’re about to do something that’s going to end badly for you? I wonder if developers ever get that feeling during their meetings. Some truly awful ideas have been implemented into video games [...]
As a kid in elementary school playing Nintendo for countless hours in the 1980s, I never imagined that it would actually happen, but it has: video games have hit the big time. Gaming and gaming culture have reached a level [...]
I enjoyed the Crysis when it first came come all those moons ago, not on my PC, God no. I didn’t have some huge beast of a computer that could perform like that, but I did have a friend whose [...]
Console players are enjoying an online multiplayer spike on Rockstar titles recently. Following last weekend’s Red Dead Redemption triple XP and with new Rockstar social events on the horizon, many awaiting GTA V have brushed the dust from older games [...]
Since 2003, almost fifteen Call of Duty titles have been released, and the series shows no signs of slowing down. The market for video game sequels is huge, as high game prices mean people are reluctant to venture money on [...]
I’m always late to the party when it comes to video games, but when it comes to Dark Souls, I can at least claim to be fashionably late. I got it less than a week ago, I’m playing exclusively offline, [...]
They say originality in gaming is dead, and judging by the slew of sequels and reboots coming in 2013, it’s hard to argue otherwise. But who said it has to be a bad thing? One of the more surprising titles [...]
Back in 2008, Dead Space looked set to usurp Resident Evil from its throne and become the new survival horror king. The dark atmospheric setting of Space put a terrifying spin on the formula and in the process, breathed new [...]
First-person shooters have been a staple of the gaming industry since id Software first popularized it with the likes of Doom and Wolfenstein. Over the years, there have been some truly genre defining games such as the Halo and Call [...]
