Features – Page 6 – Games Asylum

Rabbiting on with TriCat Games, creators of mobile fling ‘n’ swinger R.A.B.B.i.T

Nine months ago Phil Busuttil and David Thatcher departed UK-based Ninja Theory – of Enslaved and DmC: Devil May Cry fame – to form the two-man indie team TriCat Games. Now that their first game – though not the game they started developing first, but we’ll come to...

Spending time with The Solus Project

Survival games are both high in demand and in number at the moment. If youâ€™ve played the majority, then youâ€™ve probably noticed that they donâ€™t tend to be storyline orientated. Usually they begin by explaining the premise – zombie apocalypse/nuclear devastation/popping to the supermarket on Black Friday –...

Thirty things that infuriate eBay users

Itâ€™s fair to say that most people who use eBay have a love-hate relationship with the auction site. For every bargain buy or smooth transaction youâ€™re forced to patiently wait weeks for items to arrive, or simply put up with people’s stupidity. Weâ€™ve been using eBay since the...

2015: Ten games you may have missed

Weâ€™ve seen fewer releases this year, especially during the usually crowded festive season. Even with fewer triple-A titles on the shelves though, a fair few games still sunk without trace. Below youâ€™ll find a mixture of retail and digital releases that didnâ€™t get a fair share of the...

Terrible Old Games Youâ€™ve Probably Never Heard of – terrible games, terrific read

Bad video games have a habit of living in infamy these days. This is all down to the YouTube generation regularly wheeling out modern day duffers like Sonic 06, Big Rigs and Ride to Hell: Retribution so that they can be mocked, ridiculed and childishly cursed at. Fellow...

Fortunately for achievement hunters, the Xbox Oneâ€™s shortest games are mostly good

Every Xbox 360 owner and their dog knows that if you want to give your Gamerscore a boost you have to force yourself to play terrible movie tie-ins, half-baked kidâ€™s games and decade old sports sims. It would appear that easiest Xbox One games to rinse for achievements...

Six survivors of development limbo

Bad games. We’ve seen plenty since this site started in 2001, but in this day and age of big budgets and high expectations they’ve started to become few and far between. Godzilla on PS4 was the most recent, and itâ€™s fair to say that many were surprised by...

A Brief History of Video Games – a delightful reacquaintance with the past

There’s nothing like selling yourself short. With over 350 glossy full colour pages, Richard Stanton’s (Eurogamer, The Guardian, Rock Paper Shotgun) A Brief History of Video Games can hardly be considered brief. It’s not Stanton doing the short selling, but rather the bookâ’s publisher – this is the...

E3 2015: Seven fantastic surprises

E3 is over for another year. Tired journalists are boarding their return flights, trying to make sense of the incomprehensible messes scribbled on their notepads, while those who held the fort at home attempt to scrape every morsel of information out of those glitzy game trailers. We saw...

CD Projekt and The Witcher – Ten Facts

Say farewell to your social life – CD Projekt’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is finally out today. If you’re able to briefly drag yourself away from the colossal 100+ hour adventure, here are ten facts for your perusal: CD Projekt was formed in 1994 and started out...

2015: The year Nintendo comes out fighting

The third year in a consoleâ€™s life is usually a jubilant one. By now the console will be well established, with a user base large enough to attract studios large and small, not to mention having a sizeable enough market share for publishers to take a gamble by...

2014: Ten you may have missed

The indie uprising continued in full force this year, with numerous download-only titles bagging incredibly high review scores. Not all caught the attention of critics and gamers alike though, and so this round-up gives a small handful a second chance to glimmer in the limelight. We’ve thrown in...