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 [...]
From the team who brought you the London Anime Con comes a brand new gaming convention to the capital : the London Gaming Con! Set to take place between the 3rd and 4th of December inside London Metropolitan’s rather spacious Rocket venue, this event is shaping up to be pretty immense it has to be said. Entry on the day is £10 per day, but those who pre-pay now can get in both days for just £14, or for just [...]
I have a dream, a dream that one day a small group of gaming journalists from the UK will have a great opportunity, and that opportunity will take them across to a distant land. A distant land that will be full of fantasy and wonderment, a land that will fulfil the dreams of those gaming journalists and will fulfil their life long dream, a dream of being united in covering the biggest gaming event of the year. Sadly though that [...]
Contributed by Andrew Highton Halo? Call of Duty? Killzone? Battlefield? What do all of the above have in common? Well, they’re all amazing online experiences which provide much excitement, along with enough thrills and spills designed to fill any gamer with enough adrenaline to punch a hole through a wall… unsuccessfully. Nevertheless, these games have servers cluttered up with many gamers who’re either capturing a flag, killing opposing members of the other team or blowing up some munitions in a [...]
Something that has become a bigger and more pressing issue in the world of games recently is the portrayal of women. After the “dickwolves” saga Penny-Arcade went through and some of my favoured sites like GJAIF harping on and on about similar issues, I found it increasingly difficult to keep silent on the issue. With the newest ‘controversy’ arising recently, I felt that even though I’m about as qualified to talk about this as I am to pilot a submarine, [...]
I must admit that the title may be reactionary, but this week EA have announced that they are planning to join Ubisoft in ditching their video games instruction booklets in order to cut their printed materials down by 40%. All well and good for the environment, but is it the way forward? I know that I can’t speak for all of the gamers out there as I write this, but when it comes to video games, films, comics, graphic novels [...]
Gaming is a beautiful thing; it allows you to see the most beautiful worlds, witness stories, characters and events you couldn’t see anywhere else, and it’s still evolving, day by day. Some of the better moments when gaming have always been with the people you care about most, whether it be with your family, your friends, or someone special to you in some way. While gaming is mostly enjoyed Single Player, and I, like many others am a single player [...]
In the past few months there have been an absolute load of announcements for games coming out in 2011 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 [...]
Looking back at my old posts for Plus XP. I have stumbled across this neat little post I did back in late 2009 talking about hos games have evolved and what’s hot and what’s not in gameplay now a days. Enjoy! The past couple of weeks I have been playing a couple of games that quite frankly I have loved because of the gameplay. Two games that automatically spring to mind are DJ Hero and Bayonetta. Both of these games [...]
Ludo ergo sum: I play therefore I am 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 [...]
