Last week we teamed up with the awesome folks at FireFly Studios for a competition of epic proportions. We gave five of our Plus XP readers the chance to win Stronghold 3: Gold codes for steam. All you had to do was answer this simple question: Want a second chance to get your hands on Strong Hole 3: Gold? Then answer the following question. Which one of the following Stronghold games came first? A) Stronghold: Kingdoms B) Stronghold: Legends C) […]
After the huge fan response from our first Stronghold 3: Gold Competition back in April, FireFly Studios have given us another 5 steam codes to give away. Want a second chance to get your hands on Strong Hole 3: Gold? Then answer the following question. Which one of the following Stronghold games came first? A) Stronghold: Kingdoms B) Stronghold: Legends C) Stronghold: Crusader All you need to do is email with the subject header ‘my liege we must win […]
Definitely one of the most unique experiences in my life to date! I was surrounded by enthusiastic gamers all showing their feelings towards games in different ways. Whether it was stockpiling a collection of retro merchandise from Bubble Bobble t-shirts, dressing up as Doom guy, facing off in tournaments or even attempting to break world records; this was a true event for gamers. Upon arriving at EventCity, Manchester: I was nearly sucked into a gaming cyclone as swarms of people […]
Contributed by HelenBaby The Monster Hunter Community (UK) are a group of Monster Hunter enthusiasts who have been meeting fortnightly since early this year. The group was founded by Jake and Mai Mackey and has so far received support and much accolade from major gaming companies Capcom and Nintendo. When the original organisers can’t find the time to organise something its not a problem ; they are fortunate enough to have a community brimming with competent fans who relish the […]
If there is one type of mission that the GTA series manages to nail each time, it’s the good old fashioned bank robbery. Since GTA III graced our PlayStation 2 consoles in 2001, bank robbery missions have gone from strength to strength. The latest game in the franchise, GTA V will be released this September, and it claims to have some of the most in depth robbery and heist missions that the GTA franchise has ever seen. With that soon […]
Its simple, it’s addictive, and it’s free… or is it? The creation of the app market has lead to an unprecedented amount of free to play, yet costly to win games. Though they are often free to download, many of these tempting offerings are slowly by surely ridding many gamers first of their patience and then of their hard earned cash. Out of all of the free to play games out there none seems to have as much of a […]
The video game universe has it’s fair share of good guys. Whether they are super heroes, martial artists, highly skilled marks man or even Italian plumbers we all have a favourite, but when it comes to villains who is the best? Join the Plus XP team as we pay homage to our favourite video game Antagonists. Warning, spoilers ahead! Not little spoilers either, huge, whopping, game ruining spoilers. If you have not played the game mentioned in each bold title […]
Contributed by HelenBaby The Curiosity Cube will need no introduction to many of you. To those of you who don’t know, it is the first game/project by independent gaming company 22Cans. An addictive tap-athon, players earn virtual currency by tapping/breaking the tiny little cubes that, together, make up a massive cube. Players score extra for combo-chains which are generated through tapping the cubes accurately. But the ultimate goal of the project isn’t to be the one to amass the most […]
As a child, one of my biggest dreams was that of Virtual Reality – or VR. Growing up watching the cast of Red Dwarf enter lifelike video game scenarios in Better Than Life and Gunmen of the Apocalypse, and later seeing The Matrix – where the world was a VR construction within which Neo was able to defy the laws of physics, it doesn’t take much imagination to see that a passionate gamer like myself could want to see similar technology […]
Appynation are a developer-led game publisher who believe that video game developers should own 100% of the game that they create. I caught up with Andrew Smith from Appynation to discuss the company and how publishing games for mobile platforms has seen a boom in the Indie games market. How did the idea for a developer-led publisher like Appynation come about? It came from an observed need. The rise of digital platforms meant that developers were able to soar to […]
