Dark Souls II- Hands On
Last month a beta edition of Dark Souls II opened up for a handful of lucky players, giving fans the chance to try out the game without the need for heading along to an expo or having an inside source...
View ArticleSir, You Are Being Hunted – Hands On
Sir, You Are Being Hunted creates a world of British, Vaudevillian styled, science fiction survival. A world where the dapper mechanized gentlemen hunt humans for sport. Currently in development by Big...
View ArticleSchein – Hands On
We hear a lot about crowd-sourced funding; it’s the way of the future don’t ya know, what with game developers reaching goals within days and then going to meet every single goal. All you need to get...
View ArticlePapers, Please – Hands On
In the days before the fall of the USSR and the Berlin Wall, there was a time when the simple crossing of borders in Europe was fraught with risk, peril and political unrest. While things in this...
View ArticleWetware – Hands On
Wetware is a new title from Glasgow-based indie developers Reality Council, a real-time strategy set in a dystopian future with all the cyberpunk trimmings: hackers for hire, mega corporations, cyber...
View ArticleMarvel Heroes – Hands On
Marvel Heroes is the upcoming free to play, multiplayer action RPG. Featuring a roster of your favourite Marvel heroes, teaming up to face Doctor Doom and prevent him from using the power of the Cosmic...
View ArticleNeverwinter – Hands On
The new game in the Neverwinter franchise, created this time by Cryptic Studios, is a change of pace from the Neverwinter Nights series, as this time it’s a free-to-play MMO rather than a straight up...
View ArticleFire Emblem Awakening – Hands On
Role playing games have long been aimed towards the more niche end of the market but there have been times when they have burst into the mainstream. The late nineties boom in Japanese RPGs for example...
View ArticleThe Adventures of Rubberkid – Hands On
It can be difficult to create a game for children that successfully balances fun with education, and from what we’ve seen of The Adventures of Rubberkid, its creator Charles Jackson has made a great...
View ArticleWorld of Warplane – Hands On
World of Warplanes is the next game from Wargaming.net of World of Tanks fame. A free-to-play game based on Planes built for warfare, it’s a simulator of large air focused battles, with some ground...
View ArticleRayman Legends – Hands On
Old game heroes never die, they just…. get revamped. Sometimes this is for the best, others not so much. In the case of Many of yesteryear’s pixelated icons, the inevitable return to the latest gaming...
View ArticleMetal Gear Rising: Revengeance – First Impressions
Without going into massive spoiler territory, Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots ended on a major turning point for the Metal Gear universe. The world after those events, according to the info...
View ArticleDead Space 3 – Hands On
Put yourself in Isaac Clarke’s shoes. First you bust your balls to land an engineering job fixing the ship that your wife works on, and get halfway across space to find that the crew have been...
View ArticleNi no Kuni – Hands On
There are a few people out there who bought a PS3 on the promise of The Last Guardian, an intriguing mixture of action-adventure, puzzles, and ridiculously coo-inducing aesthetics which was originally...
View ArticleWii U – Hands On
The launch of a new Nintendo console is always a reason to get excited. Back in June 2011 Nintendo unveiled the Wii U, with a strong focus on its key selling point: the GamePad. A sort of Swiss Army...
View ArticleLondon MCM Expo October 2012: The Previews
By the time you read this,many will have already gotten their hands on a copy of Assassin’s Creed 3 and hopefully have spent many hours gleefully ramming tomahawks into skull cavities. For those...
View ArticleNHL ’13 – Hands On
Electronic Arts and Ice Hockey have a long association stretching way back to the early days of the Sega Mega Drive. This is because Ice Hockey is a good fit when it comes to video games, being fast...
View ArticleLondon MCM Expo May 2012
It was a lovely sunny weekend at the ExCel when the May London MCM Expo was held. In a rare event, the cosplayers in underwear-style costumes were able to avoid hypothermia even while outside. Those in...
View ArticleMass Effect 3 Multiplayer
It’s easy to get upset when it’s announced that a primarily singleplayer game like Mass Effect is getting a multiplayer mode: The Mass Effect games are epic singleplayer RPGs, why would you need or...
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