The Walking Dead

Game Y’self Better

Recently I have become rather obsessed with the idea of self improvement. I’ve started running. I’ve started eating breakfast. I’ve stopped being a vegetarian. I also got myself into thinking that games could help me achieve my dreams of being a better person. Since Brain Training sold approximately...

2013: The year’s ten biggest turkeys

Usually our annual lookback at the worst console games of the year is in conjunction with Metacritic. As in, we use the site as a source. But with Metacritic’s worst rated games of the year mostly consisting of PC and iOS games we’ve never even heard of, it...

Zombies are afraid of the light

The reign of the undead is at an end. Dead Island Riptide drops to #2 in this week’s UK chart. Koch Media’s Deep Silver label keeps the chart sewn up though: it’s replaced at #1 by its rather better critically received stable-mate, Metro: Last Light. FIFA 13 has...

Zombie bad; zombie good

Zombie bad: Dead Island Riptide is the UK’s no. 1 for a third week running. That’s one week longer than its similarly sloppy predecessor managed. The only other game to manage three weeks in a row this year is Bioshock Infinite, which this week is at #6. Zombie...

Persona 4 Arena, finally

The saying “good things come to those who wait” rings true with Persona 4 Arena. It was originally due last August, but then delayed time and time again. PlayStation 3 owners couldn’t even resort to importing a US or Japanese copy – it was one the few PS3...

Two festive freebies coming to XBLA

Microsoft and Telltale are showing some Christmas generosity on Xbox Live Arcade soon – Kinect Party and The Walking Dead: Episode One are going to be free over the festive season. Kinect Party, which we casually reported on earlier today, sounds like some awful mini-game collection but thankfully...

Madden NFL 13 – now less maddening

For a third week running we’re being treated to a handful of incredibly strong releases. Considering it’s the typically quiet summer period, this is most peculiar. Pleasing, but peculiar. Madden NFL 13 isn’t one that’ll interest many in the UK, but the Madden games do usually at least...

The Walking Dead: Episode One

Many gamers rejoiced when Telltale Games arrived on the scene, and rightly so – their aim was to rejuvenate the then-dead point and click adventure genre. Their licensed games have received mixed reviews in the past, with their last game – Jurassic Park – critically mauled. There’s no...