Mankind largely hasn’t used swords in combat for over 200 years, yet the popularity of shows such as Game of the Thrones, which feature swordplay prominently, has meant that some developers have taken a swing at creating realistic sword fighting … Continue reading
Space is a vast thing which, according to popular science fiction, is full ofaliens and lasers and lots of things blowing up. In Aeon Command you see a lot of these things, nearly all of them at the same time… … Continue reading
Amnesia, do you remember that? Sorry, bad joke. If you have played Amnesia: The Dark Descent, then it’s an experience you’re unlikely to have forgotten. It’s one of the creepiest games ever made, and probably one of the only true … Continue reading
Seeing as the many medium spanning Assassin’s Creed series has seven full release games in it, with two more on the way, not to mention a slew of webisodes, comics, internet mini-games and even expannsive novelisations of the main games … Continue reading
The unknown and the unexpected are the bread and butter of the horror genre – and an indie PC game quietly released in June 2012 fits the bill, coming as it did from the relatively unknown developer Mark J. Hadley … Continue reading
On my android phone, an old woman stands at the gates of a gothic yet still pretty graveyard. The occasional call of small birds and the low whistle of the wind blow quietly in the background. This image is painted … Continue reading
I do not like James Bond. Not his films, although they tend to be the low-point of Christmas, but the man himself. For me it is an ideological issue. I do not like the idea that the champion of Britain’s … Continue reading
There’s a point in the Magicka tutorial where it becomes clear that the tone of the game is wholly irreverent. It comes when you are confronted with a multi-eyed ‘Watcher’ called Behold at the gate of a dungeon. Shortly after … Continue reading
Where does a series go after it has reached a conclusion? Do you accept that the story is done, complete, finito? Or do you go the way of Alien and produce sequel after sequel, drawing out the story’s original concept … Continue reading
From the beginning it’s crystal clear that Saw II: Flesh & blood is a major improvement on the original Saw videogame. In almost every aspect from presentation, gameplay and finer details of the plot are all given noticeable upgrades and … Continue reading