Metacritic’s worst of 2011

This’ll be the third year running that we’ve rounded up Metacritic’s worst games of the year, so we assume it’s a tradition for us now. This year though we’ve left out downloadable games because otherwise this article would be based mostly on incredibly bad DSiWare and WiiWare games, of which there have been many. For …

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The kids’ games are alright

A good reviewer will research a game that they have been requested to review by playing other examples of the genre beforehand. This is why I purchase kids’ games every now and then and give them a pasting – so if we receive a new animated movie tie-in or whatnot to review we’ll be able …

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Duke Nukem, finally

Giving away inFAMOUS for free wasn’t just a way for Sony to say sorry for the PSN fiasco, but also a way to get a few more people interested in the franchise before the sequel comes out. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t buy inFAMOUS 2 though, as with the majority of Sony’s PlayStation 3-exclusives it’s …

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Playing the unplayed

Moving house has forced me to choose a new broadband provider, which in turn has lead to having three whole weeks without internet due to various cock-ups. This hasn’t been an entirely bad thing though – I’ve managed to whittle down my “unplayed games pile” and also rediscovered Teletext’s GameCentral. I used to read GameCentral …

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