Impatiently waiting for Nintendo to finally reveal Legend of Zelda on Wii U? You should definitely consider reaching for Darksiders II to fill the Hyrulian-shaped void. Though rather than heading on a quest to save the princess or uncover the secret to a mysterious event; as Death, and his journey to free his brother War …
You can bet your last dose of Zombrex (it exists, right?) that this year will see the release of many collections, trilogies and such for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. They offer publishers the chance to squeeze a little bit of extra money out of their back catalogue, and as long as they arrive at …
When a console enters its twilight years I always find myself madly working through a pile of unplayed games in order to rationalise purchasing that console’s successor. This generation is slightly different – not only do I have a bunch of Xbox 360 retail games to play, but also a small assortment of XBLA releases. …
In just a few weeks time, Dark Souls diehards across the globe will be shunning their friends and loved ones to put the anticipated sequel through its paces. Before we cut off all contact with the outside world, we thought we would revisit Dark Souls for one last time, for it truly is the Mount …
It’s questionable if the Kinect is going to play as big a part in the Xbox One’s future as Microsoft once believed. Indeed, by all accounts the original Kinect is dead – Microsoft even chose not to feature the usual ‘Better with Kinect’ branding on the recent Zoo Tycoon. That didn’t stop us from dusting …
Even with a much improved assortment of games on the shelves, compiling a list of hidden gems for the 3DS still provides a sizeable challenge. Sega’s Rhythm Thief and The Emperor’s Treasure is certainly deserving of that status though. Released during April last year, Rhythm Thief tells the tale of the mild-mannered French fellow Raphael …
Most developers, if not all, have a game in their back catalogue that was the one that they always wanted to create. It was their destiny to do so, if you will, or sometimes even the sole reason their studio was formed in the first place. We’re talking about things like Bungie’s sci-fi opus Halo, …
After playing through three of this generation’s most tedious shooters back-to-back – Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Sniper: Ghost Warrior and 007 Blood Stone – I decided that the next game to be tackled in my towering unplayed game pile would be Way of the Samurai 3. Although it’s a series I’ve heard of before, it’s …
Usually when a format is on its last legs the release lists for it are full of licensed tat aimed at younger gamers and half-baked budget games. With this in mind it was a bit of a surprise when Sega announced Aliens: Infestation back in 2011. With WayForward at the helm, who were also working …
Those who follow us on Twitter – to whom we are eternally grateful – will know that I had a bit of trouble procuring a copy of Halo 4. My copy was dispatched the weekend before its Tuesday launch but it didn’t arrive on our doorstep until Thursday. With a day off work to play …
The amount of games in my ‘to play’ pile is ridiculous, so you’d think that a RPG would be the last thing I’d touch in order to whittle that pile down. I was however told that Venetica is a short game. Turns out that’s not strictly true – at around 20 hours it’s only a …
For the obvious reason, the price of Spider-Man games has shot up in the past month or so. Even the rushed out Spider-Man 3 movie tie-in – in which some female NPCs had male voices and vice versa – is selling for more than a tenner on Amazon. What’s really quite astonishing though is that …
It’s no surprise that Asura’s Wrath divided opinion when it was released earlier this year. It’s a game that can be broken down to being approximately 75 percent cut-scenes, 20 percent hacking and slashing, and 5 percent QTE events. For the most part you’re simply sat holding the joypad, waiting from a button prompt or …
One of the biggest video gaming mysteries in recent times is why Activision chose not to promote Singularity. Any other publisher would have been proud to have a first person shooter with many comparable elements to Bioshock in their catalogue, but Activision were quite happy to let it slip out on the quiet and vanish …
With the developers of Flatout at the helm we always expected this Ridge Racer reboot to be something special. While the single player mode isn’t quite as lovely as we’d hoped – it’s a Ridge Racer game in name alone and thus lacking in identity because of it – the track building tools give it …