Alan edits split-screen.net and is Oxford's best Northern Irish expatriate video games critic. He loves cutting videos, recording podcasts and sometimes has time to play games as well. Don't forget to follow him on Twitter- you'll have a great time.
One day, tired of a life spent endlessly redrawing the same characters from Street Fighter, an artist at Capcom decided to doodle something different. Ryu became a vampire throwing bat fireballs, Chun-Li a busty and lusty demon, Zangief a big … Continue reading
In the early 90s, arcades were the best place to see cutting-edge videogame technology. Your Mega Drive, SNES or PC paled in comparison to an eight player game of Virtua Racing: in fact, the only way to emulate Virtua Racing … Continue reading
“What the hell is this?” That’s all I had written after two weeks with Dark Scavenger: a single exasperated sentence, a handful of unhelpful screenshots and an intimidating blank text document filling the screen. I feel like I am scavenging … Continue reading
Forza and its main rival Gran Turismo exist for a different audience than the casual boy racer: they’re for car enthusiasts who will happily spend hours tweaking their suspension and tyre pressure, or adding another layer of lacquer to their … Continue reading
Six hundred team members, two hundred and thirty years of history and three years of game development time: Assassin’s Creed III is the biggest game Ubisoft have ever made, and a real gamble for the company. Although we’ve grown fond … Continue reading
When the zombie apocalypse comes, gamers will be prepared. We’ll see the first reanimated corpses biting humans, identify them as zombies, swiftly decapitate them and stop the epidemic in its tracks. Alien invasions, time travellers inadvertently allowing the Soviet Union … Continue reading
If there’s one thing truly endless about space, it’s our enduring romance with its mysteries. We gazed in awe at pictures taken by the Mars Curiosity rover: it took a year to get there, and you thought public transport was … Continue reading
Take a few seconds to have a little chuckle to yourself. You know, I approached this with an open mind: maybe I’d really learn how to drive a bus! The next time I used public transport, I could look into … Continue reading
Nothing ages more rapidly or cruelly than the modern video game. Today’s Battlefield 3 is tomorrow’s Wolfenstein 3D: in ten years time, people will laugh that BF3 was the height of graphical prowess before being jacked back into the Matrix … Continue reading
How do you make a game ‘family friendly’? Bribe Big Bird and Cookie Monster to make an appearance? Throw in Kinect functionality so anyone can play, yet no one is in control? The solution proposed by Fable Heroes is a … Continue reading