Hands On
PC

A Rip-Roaring, Rhyming Hands-On With Saints Row: The Third

So that was when I took the wheel, as bullets pinged and tyres squealed, I weighed the odds and my heart sank: my street sweeper vs their armoured tank.

August 11, 2011
PC

5 Disappointing Things About My First Hours On Dead Island

From its bittersweet debut trailer to its brutally gore-ified combat,Dead Island has captured the attention of zombie gamer around the globe. Earlier this week it captured my attention for several hours, and I wasn’t entirely pleased.

August 9, 2011
PC

An Hour With Skyrim. It’s Amazing.

I mean no disrespect when I say this: I couldn’t give a dragon’s arse about the story in Skyrim. It may well be wonderful, but as the fifth instalment in The Elder Scrolls series — none of which I’ve played for more than an hour or two at most — I’ve never had any opportunity to understand, let alone grow to love, the story.

August 4, 2011
Nintendo

The Hidden Is The Lovechild Of Face Raiders And Ghostbusters

At first glance, The Hidden looks an awful lot like Face Raiders, one of the free augmented reality games pre-installed on every 3DS. Like Face Raiders, The Hiddenis a shooter that uses the 3DS’ camera to superimpose things for you to shoot in your real world environment, turning whatever room you’re in into a shooting gallery with ghosts coming in from all directions.

PC

Tribes: Ascend Revisits The Series’ Glory Days

I first played Starsiege: Tribes at the 1998 E3 Expo in Atlanta, Georgia. A relatively newcomer to the multiplayer first-person shooter, I fondly recall ignoring whatever objective our team was supplied with, instead spending my time whooshing about the map with my jetpack, giggling to myself.

August 3, 2011
PlayStation

Rage Is The id Software Comeback I’ve Been Waiting For

Rage opens with a glimpse of a fictional future once considered possible.

July 14, 2011
PlayStation

Dark Souls Is Only Kind To Be Cruel

For a guy who can’t seem to survive two minutes in the foreboding, swords-and-dungeons world of Dark Souls, I must seem unnecessarily worried about how difficult the game will be.

July 1, 2011
Nintendo

Big-Headed Disney Costumes Bring Fun, Mayhem To Multiverse

There’s something inexcusably adorable about taking a virtual child, stuffing them into a big-headed, full-body Disney costume and then tossing them off a cliff.

June 30, 2011
PlayStation

Thank Ratchet And Clank For This Wonderful Disney Game

The latest Ratchet & Clank game is wearing a Disney costume

June 21, 2011
PC

Resident Evil’s Dip Into Action Is More Experiment Than Evolution

I haven’t had a good scare since 2005, at least not at the hands of Resident Evil.

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