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What a difference a day makes.
Licenced titles have been making something of a comeback recently. Michel Ancel's videogame adaptation of King Kong was a surprisingly cultured effort, and with Lego Star Wars, Republic Commando and the promisingly ...
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Manga mayhem
Imagine a Quentin Tarrantino movie re-hashed as frenzied cartoon series, mixing martial arts with bucket-loads of gore and a blaxploitation undercurrent - congratulations, you're now pretty much thinking of Afro Samurai. Originally ...
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Do have a co, nan.
Massively Multiplayer Online role Playing Games are en vogue at the moment. World of Warcraft has been a huge success, and developers
seem to be wising up to WoW’s victories and failings. Last week we covered Richard
G ...
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Iain gets closer to discovering a new age of strategy gaming.Real time strategy is arguably the genre that has changed the least since its birth with the original Dune back in 1992. Since then, the core gameplay mechanics have remaine ...
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Survival is a preference for the habitual playeur of what is known as... Darklife!
'There's been little innovation in Survival Horror since Resident Evil 4 in 2004', starts Atari's Head of PR Lee Kirton. 'With Alone in the Dark, we're addressing ...
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Scot gets stuck into Arc: Twilight of the Spirits and forms a rather nasty
obsession for spirit stones. They're mine, I tell you. All mine.
As far as traditional Japanese role-playing games go, Arc: Twilight of the
Spirits plays it largely by the ...
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Flashpoint fans rejoice – Bohemia are back...
Back in 2001, a little game called Operation Flashpoint released into an unassuming PC market. Six years, hundreds of user-made maps, and several versions later, the brand has a legio ...
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EA’s barmy army...
With the one-man army that is the Master Chief leading the way in shooter land right now, EA’s Montreal studio have decided not to take on Microsoft’s icon at his own game, but instead develop a blaster which ...
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Assassin’s Creed won’t blend in to the crowd...
With Assassin's Creed now in its final testing and polishing stage, Ubisoft has invited us up to their offices to get our hands on one of the most anticipated titles of 2007.
Before we ...
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Auto Modellista is coming, and it's bringing a whole world of graphical festivity with it.
With the large amount of racing games currently on the gaming circuit and high quality of many of them, any new offerings to the race need to be able to pro ...
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A dancing game with a difference...
Mixing strength, flair and audaciously acrobatic moves with an in-your-face urban flavour, B-Boys are baggy-clothed breakdancing exponents who, for all their balance, co-ordination, style and limbs-akimbo skil ...
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CJRavey goes back to the Forgotten Realm - this time on Xbox - as Baldur's Gate gets ready to open its doors to a Dark Alliance.
Pretty much a straight port of the PS2 version, Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance brings the complicated world of Role P ...
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Riddle me this...
Why has no one ever made a decent Batman game? LEGO Batman is just about the only passable tie-in with DC Comic's darkest of avengers. And that was hardly what you'd call a dark, gritty realisation.
Batman: Arkham Asylum is go ...
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Every now and then a game comes along that reinvents a whole genre
Ultima Underworld did it for RPGs, Command and Conquer changed the way we played and viewed strategy, and Goldeneye did it for the FPS (no doubt I'll be laughed at for such insolen ...
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Yes, War – but not like before...
Its World War II time again folks! This time centred on The Battle of Midway - one of the key American victories of the entire conflict. So called because it took place around the Pacific island of Mid ...
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“He’s monstrous!”
Beowulf was largely the inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, so it’s ironic that Beowulf’s upcoming movie has been made possible by the success of the ‘Rings film trilogy ...
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A blockbuster game in the dead of summer? Shocking!
Arguably the biggest release on any format this August and the finest summer gaming sizzler in recent memory, Bioshock is packed with promise and prestige. Indeed, developer I ...
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The Burnout team turn their hand to some run 'n' gun action…
Coming from Criterion Studios, BLACK is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the firm's first-person equivalent to their beloved Burnout series. In fact, to say it does for shooters what Burno ...
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Mark sits on the fence in the FPS war...
Claiming to redefine any genre, let alone one as crowded as the first-person shooter, is
always bold – but it’s an aspiration Blacksite shouts about proudly. In truth, that’s a
task wh ...
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CJRavey takes time out to preview Blinx – Time Sweeper, this season’s
must-have Xbox platform adventure.
Somewhere out there in the multiverse there is a place populated by cats, busy manufacturing precious time for all the worlds that ...