There’s a fundamental difficulty with episodic gaming that I’ve had to force myself to come to terms with recently; the wait between episodes becomes harder to bear the more engrossed you are in the series. The wait between the third and fourth episodes of Telltale Games’ Back To The Future was probably one of the most difficult I’ve had, with the third episode ending on a cliffhanger best described as “cruel” and the end of my second year at Uni [...]
Archive for May, 2011
The 13 Year History Of A Developing Game Duke Nukem has always been a firm favourite of mine, ever since I saw my dad first freeze a pig cop then kick it into a million pieces back on Duke Nukem 3D in 1996, I was hooked. The variation of levels and bosses coupled with Duke’s bad ass attitude really made the game for me and I would spend hours watching my dad play when it first came out. When I [...]
The wind blew the snowflakes through the valley leading to the mighty fortress where the Daimyo of the Mori and his small garrison waited for the incoming Shimazu attack. Outnumbered three to one with few samurai at his disposal, the situation looked bleak. Nevertheless, he ordered his men to stand firm and fight with all their vigour. There was no honour in being a coward. As the enemy approached, he dismounted his horse and stood amongst his men; not just [...]
Contributed by Andrew Highton Please note: This article contains spoilers for multiple games from the very beginning. Those games include the Killzone, God of War and Sly Cooper franchises, Driver 3, Mortal Kombat 9 and Dead Space. You have been warned.
There have been a lot of questions flying around the internet about the upcoming Batman: Arkham City game. Most are asking how awesome the game is actually going to be, but anyone will tell you that if it is like its predecessor (Arkham Asylum) then the answer is going to be along the lines of “it’s going to blow your mind”. Another question about the game I commonly see is “why isn’t there any multiplayer?”. I’ve been thinking about this [...]
My love for fighting games was revived back in 2008 with the release of Street Fighter IV; the famous 2D fighting series was back, and I was loving it. Since then, I’ve been brushing up on my skills, and even though I’m not going to be as awesome as some of my friends it doesn’t mean that I’m unable to enjoy the overall gaming experience. After getting back into the Street Fighter series, I thought it would be a great [...]
Being a die hard Duke Nukem 3D fan, it’s probably no surprise that I almost physically leapt at the opportunity to attend a Duke Nukem Forever (AKA DNF) question and answer session at BAFTA headquarters a couple of nights ago. Fellow writer Jokesound and I managed to squeeze ourselves into the sell-out event to get some hands on time with DNF, ask a couple of questions and meet CEO of Gearbox Software Randy Pitchford. So how did it go? Read [...]
Contributed by Helen Doherty Wherever you have characters, you have character traits, and whenever you have character traits, you can put these together to form an idea of what star-sign that character is. This article looks at the twelve different star-signs of the Tropical Zodiac and provides readers with a gaming character who either has a pre-determined birthday that matches that sign or, in the absence of this, has been assigned a star-sign by me in accordance with what I [...]
Though I played the first offering in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed saga (or AC for short) when it was first released, I nonetheless feel like a latecomer to the series. Leon and I were pretty excited about Assassin’s Creed when it was first released, but when I finally got to play it I found that it was heavily repetitive and the “rinse and repeat” design of the game meant that I found it too tedious for my liking. I received Assassin’s [...]
PlayStation Network to be down longer than expected It’s been a couple of weeks since 77 million PS3 users found themselves without access to online services – but it’s not over yet. While the PlayStation Blog announced a week ago that services should be resumed within a week, it’s now been announced that there will be a further delay in PSN services due to the severity of the attack. While this is a frustrating period for PS3 owners, Sony have [...]
