So it comes to pass that Christmastime is once again upon us, and despite begs and pleas to the contrary (including several attempts by paid professionals), I have for you a Christmas Special of PlusXP’s Inside Look! For you all, I have recordings of the events in which the PlusXP crew joined together for Christmas merriment. However, seeing as I was forced to destroy the video and audio evidence (as neither exist), what you have is a transcription of what [...]
Archive for December, 2010
It’s been a little while since the excellent Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was released, and there have been words of DLC floating around for a little while, with no real solid information. Well that’s all now changed – as we can proudly announce some real info on what players should expect.
Contributed by MarkuzR A gentleman by the name of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe is not only responsible for the aphorism “God is in the details” but also for “less is more”. It’s rare to find such mutually applicable contradictions outside of the Bible but it has to be said that both maxims can easily apply to a number of video games in recent years, and nowhere is it more appropriate than Fallout 3. Amid the sparsity of the wastelands [...]
Ok so before I go on I have a confession to make, back last year I was going quite mad over the release of Prototype. I was genuinely excited about the game and the sand box possibilities that the game had. I really couldn’t wait to play it. But as I was skint uni student at the time and then people saying it wasn’t that great. I never got to play Prototype and still haven’t to this day. I Know it [...]
With Christmas right around the corner, news is being very slow in the gaming world, we also know that a lot of gamers out there maybe looking to their games for some entertainment this Christmas period, so in light of this I have brought back a post from 2009 which I think is worth a read, Something new will be round the corner tomorrow. When it comes down to it there is always one genre I swear by when gaming [...]
For a long time now I have been mentioning in a few infrequent posts about a games that I used to play on the PC Called Jazz Jack Rabbit, I have also been complaining that the games is now stupidly hard to get hold of and that a revival is long over due for the green rabbit and his turtle slaughtering escapades. I was nosing through Kotaku today for something to post about and I may have stuck gold in [...]
With Christmas just around the corner us gamers have probably got no money for one of two reasons. Either you have been buying presents for people like normal people should at this time of the year, or you have taken advantage of the christmas releases and you are now swimming in a pile of new games. Whatever the reason, I feel your pain, being skint is not the best feeling in the world, but never fear Xbox LIVE has something [...]
The video games I have grown up with have mainly been platformers like Sonic The Hedgehog or FPS games such as Doom or Duke Nukem, most of you out there who have read Plus XP for a while have probably noticed me saying this again and again so I won’t go into details for the forty millionth time. But when I was about ten years old I was given a copy of Super Street Fighter II Turbo on the PC. [...]
Two things kept me sane during the opening weeks of my first year of university. These were GTA Liberty City Stories and SSX on tour. You see during these first precious weeks of term when I should have been out exploring the various delights of student life with my fellows I found myself stricken with the dreaded freshers flu. To make things worse it was during these particular weeks the university experienced something of a spectacular snowstorm. Confined to my [...]
While I’ll easily admit that I love the idea of the Xbox Live Arcade allowing smaller developers to create unique and imaginative games at a smaller price point, allowing for a fun diversion to the monopoly of AAA games out there, it’s a lot harder for me to admit that I’ve not used the service to truly enjoy some of those titles. I’m still yet to delve into Limbo or many of the other great games out there, but there’s [...]
