Metro: Last Light – Review

Last Light is the sequel to book-turned-game Metro 2033 and sees hero Artyom continue his struggle for survival in irradiated near-future Moscow, joining the huddled masses in the city’s underground system. That means dealing with large, hostile monsters who live both above and below ground, as well as fending off the potentially deadly ministrations of human

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Iron Man 3: The Official Game – Review

10th May, 13 Nick

I’ve never been a fan of ‘freemium’ games, where you download them for nothing before being begged, wheedled and coerced into paying many times over during the course of play. Iron Man 3: The Official Game does nothing to dispel this deep discomfort with fake free. Using Temple Run’s paradigm of procedural generation, assembling levels

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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon – Review

9th May, 13 Nick

Blood Dragon uses Far Cry 3’s game engine to create something rather different. Although both games share a penchant for stalking and shooting, Blood Dragon is rip-roaring gung-ho 80s homage, from its delirious cornucopia of Arnie era one-liners to the sprite-based cut-scenes and a growled Michael Biehn voiceover. Your character, Sgt. Rex Colt, becomes Rex

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Star Trek The Game – Review

8th May, 13 Nick

Star Trek is a series about exploring the galaxy and letting the peculiarities encountered shed some light on the human condition. It involves space ships, medical emergencies, weapons that have a stun setting and aliens, sometimes friendly, sometimes not. Star Trek the game is a third-person cover shooter with clumsy controls and a lot of

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Next Xbox internet connection rumours continue – News

7th May, 13 Dan

As we reported a few weeks ago, there are strong rumours going around that the next Xbox, as-yet-unnamed but codenamed Durango, will have to have a persistent internet connection to work. Which is patently silly. The thot plickened yesterday as Ars Technica quoted what purports to be an internal Microsoft email. It said, “Durango is

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Soul Sacrifice – Review

29th Apr, 13 Nick

Imprisoned by a mad sorcerer, your character has only a freakish talking book for company. Conveniently, the book contains stories about demons being vanquished, which is where you come in. Chapters are set against backdrops that even on Vita’s little screen never feel less than epic. The monsters themselves are colourful and gloriously grotesque, arriving

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Dead Island: Riptide – Review

26th Apr, 13 Nick

The original Dead Island managed to be a commercial success despite being roundly dismissed by most critics. Its sequel, if you can call a game that’s near-identical in practically every respect a sequel, does nothing to address its legion mechanical shortcomings, instead delivering more of exactly the same. It’s even set on a sister island

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New Xbox Announcement 21 May – News

25th Apr, 13 Nick

Its specifications have been the topic of lighthearted (just kidding) discussion across the internet for months now, but we still don’t even know what it will be called. Its online nickname has become Xbox 720, but we’ll have to wait until Microsoft’s formal announcement on 21 May to discover what it’s going to be like

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Tabletop Defense – Review

23rd Apr, 13 Nick

Done right, tower defence, tired old genre that it undoubtedly is, retains the power of addiction no matter how many times you see its mechanics rehashed. Tabletop Defense gets those mechanics mostly right. Taking a miniaturised battlefield with toy tanks and pellet-firing cannons, flak guns and artillery, your job is as ever to stop units

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Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen – Review

22nd Apr, 13 Nick

Even though it didn’t find quite as large an audience as Capcom had hoped, Dragon’s Dogma was nonetheless very well received by critics and those who got round to playing it. Dark Arisen adds an extra 20-odd hours of subterranean adventuring and arrives with a free copy of the original game. It’s set in Bitterblack

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