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10:09, 9th Apr
Remember how those awful “market forces” made Irrational Games put a bro-tastic cover on BioShock Infinite? Remember Ken Levine promising that tasty alternative covers would be available? Well, here they are – and they ROCK…
11:00, 29th Mar
Whenever a beloved gaming franchise gets the reboot treatment, it’s always a tentative time for the diehard fans. Sometimes the payoff is entirely worth it; you only need to look at great games like Fallout 3, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow to know that putting a modern spin on a classic formula can result in something exceptional. But for every Street Fighter IV, Metroid Prime and Ninja Gaiden, there are garish travesties like Golden Axe: Beast Rider, Duke Nukem Forever and Bomberman: Act Zero. And the less said about the ongoing flogging of the credibility-starved needlemouse, the better.
14:10, 27th Mar
We’ve got a batch of brand new Grand Theft Auto V screenshots and, in typical Rockstar style, they showcase everything except the kitchen sink. Ever fancied scuba diving in a GTA game? Your wish just came true!
11:47, 4th Mar
Captain Martin Walker asked for a mission and, for his sins, they gave him one. If you can see where this is going then congratulations – you’ve watched Apocalypse Now. The similarities between Francis Ford Coppola’s hallucination of Vietnam and this team-based shooter starring a lot of waist-high cover points aren’t initially subtle.
13:56, 28th Feb
Pirates confirmed! As well as a confirmation about a future confirmation.
10:48, 27th Feb
A hero awakens with no memory of who or where he is, to find a talking sword and meet a cute flying squirrel-rabbit thing that flaps about in his wake. There’s little particularly remarkable about the opening of this side-on action-RPG, other than the slick polish of its animation and crisp art style, and the cynical are sure to greet it with a sigh.
16:02, 20th Feb
Uh-oh. A fighting game using Kinect-only controls? Given the lack of precision and continued failure of the technology to deliver consistently satisfying 1:1 precision...
16:43, 19th Feb
The original Epic Mickey on Nintendo’s family fun box was a big deal for Disney. The Wii’s brilliantly inventive, pseudo open-world platformer-cum-RPG was part of an epic plan (pardon the pun) by the House of Mouse...
10:59, 19th Feb
Although the racing genre is in a pretty strong position right now, with the likes of Forza and the branching Need for Speed series sending a steady stream of quality racers our way...
16:05, 18th Feb
Likeability. It’s the most intangible of characteristics, especially for a videogame. Yet Sleeping Dogs is full of it – almost defined by it, in some ways.
10:23, 15th Feb
Fans of the original Borderlands will know just how a good a job Gearbox did with the subsequent DLC packs.
10:34, 11th Feb
There are two ways to look at Damage Inc.: it’s either a good joystick with a free game or a crap game with a free joystick.
11:25, 8th Feb
Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse serves neither gamers nor the die-hard fans of Seth MacFarlane’s primetime Emmy Award-winning show
16:31, 7th Feb
While this year marks the seventh anniversary of perhaps the most successful console in videogaming history, it also plays host to the eighth consecutive Call of Duty to appear on Microsoft’s steadfast console.
10:47, 7th Feb
In terms of settling on a nailed-on review score, Far Cry 3<./i> is a tricky one to call. It has a ridiculously large game world, packed with life and content to keep you playing for days on end.
16:58, 5th Feb
“They can’t call it that!” came the casual observer’s mock alarm as an umpteenth war of ballistics unfolded. In our sights was one of a warring group of beasts, ape-like, angry and hurling rocks...
12:15, 4th Feb
Originally coded as Grand Theftendo on a Nintendo Entertainment System development kit, and built by its singular programmer Brian Provinciano back in 2002...
15:33, 1st Feb
It’s fair to say that the most influential first-person shooters of this console generation are Halo and Call of Duty.
17:13, 31st Jan
“I am the alpha and the omega,” boomed a scary Jesus Christ to a delusional madman starving on the island of Patmos, “the first and the last.”
15:15, 31st Jan
Were you there, every Friday night? Flipping between Raw on Sky Sports 1 and Nitro on TNT, as the tape-delayed drama of the Monday Night Wars and the beloved Attitude Era played out?
