Ahhh I have sure missed the tension and unbearable calamity of one more shot being fatal to you numeric health bar. Your approach to combat was more drilled and cautious, you were assertive in how you went about your business knowing your shots needed to be accurate. I’ve missed scowering the level or a particular area desperately trying to locate a health pack to just about give me an edge before in run into the next titanic battle. This may [...]
Over the last 12 to 18 months there has been a revitalisation of some games with the release of HD collector’s edition packs. These are for games that were on the Playstation 1 and 2 as well as titles that were available on the Xbox, PSP and many other consoles. Some of the previous titles released as HD collection editions were, Tomb Raider, Prince of Persia and God of War Volumes 1 and 2, but in the next twelve months [...]
The past year in gaming has been pretty huge, We have had some fantastic titles come out. Such as Portal 2, The Elderscrolls V: Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City. This list goes on. Now the new year has finally kicked in we are excited. There are going to be some fantastic titles in 2012, and to celebrate we have a fantastic competition. Last year we hit the Eurogamer Expo, where OnLive was officially launched in the UK and we managed to pick up [...]
Gavin Storey is a DJ from Grantham. He also happens to be the owner of RadioSega, having taken over from SegaMark two years ago. He was among the attractions at the London Gaming Con, playing a stomping set of Sega tunes on Sunday evening, and has kindly agreed to do an interview for PlusXP. Firstly Gavvie, how did your set at the London Gaming Con go? I felt it went really well. I was a little disappointed that we [...]
Well its taken me over a week to sit down and write this, but it is finally my pleasure to bring to you my report from the first London Gaming Con, which I attended with fellow PlusXP members Garvaos and GuitarGirl, and contributor RandomMan. Running between the 4th and 5th December, this convention took place in the Rocket complex in North London. It’s fair to say it was quite the success, with hundreds of guests coming through the Rocket’s large [...]
This past year there have been an absolute load of announcements for games coming out in 2012 and beyond. There were also some good game releases last year as well. But there has been something that has been niggling me about some of the latest announcements which make me think that game developers are fixing things before they are broken. I.E. Rebooting game franchises. In some respects some games need in but most of the time games don’t need a [...]
For about 20 odd years now I have been in love with video games. It may come to no surprise really as I have been writing about video games here for the best part of two years now. I have grown up with all the classics such as Sonic, Mario and even Kirby. I have always been on the side of Sonic and Sega but having a gamer mate over the road who sided with Nintendo while I was growing was a [...]
Through the ages there have been some epic battles in the gaming universe. Hero’s and villains have been at each others throats since the dawn of time and there have been some truly epic battles. Link vs Ganondorf, Sonic Vs Robotnic, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, the list goes on. Ever since we have known each other there has been another epic battle going. Garvaos Vs Random Man. Ok so this battle hasn’t been written into some sacred gaming code [...]
Throughout history, we have sought ways to entertain ourselves, mostly varying from storytelling and song, to that of games. Perhaps the oldest games are variations on chess and dice, but while one taxed the mind, the other was a combination of luck a perhaps a little dexterity. In time, these evolved and became more complex, or, in other cases, more simple. But games weren’t just for recreation, they as tested skill, intelligence and physical fitness. We didn’t just want to [...]
I have always been an avid fan of Tetris; a very simple game that requires you to use shapes known as tetrominoes that are sent thrown down the screen one at a time, tasking the player to manipulate said shapes to construct horizontal lines with no gaps. These lines will disappear once they are constructed, meaning the game continues until the shapes speed down so fast you can’t control them anymore and they reach the top. This game was made [...]
