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The FPS is Dead, Long Live the FPS 21 Oct 2011 | 07:30 am
What do Condemned, Bioshock, The Chronicles of Riddick and Metroid Prime have in common? They’re all first person shooters- that aren’t. Yes they all play out from a first person perspective and yes...
Kinect Preview 21 Oct 2011 | 07:28 am
Prior to E3 2010, much of the appeal of Project Natal came from its mystique. Microsoft had yet to reveal an official name, let alone its actual capabilities. However, the curtain has since been pul...
A Difficult Question 21 Oct 2011 | 06:36 am
The most common choice offered to players upon starting a new game is the difficulty; Easy, normal, hard or some variant are the most frequent options, though “casual” and “insane” often get dropped i...
The Issue of Control 21 Oct 2011 | 06:34 am
In the beginning, there was the D-pad. The player could move their character across a 2-D plane with ease… and it was good. With Microsoft and Sony both set to follow Nintendo into world of motion con...
Resonance of Fate Review 21 Oct 2011 | 06:31 am
It’s safe to say that Japanese RPGs have suffered a decline in favour in the West in recent years. Under pressure from games such as Mass Effect and Fallout, popular opinion on this side of the Earth ...
Kane and Lynch 2 Review 21 Oct 2011 | 06:30 am
The original Kane and Lynch was a perfect example of a game that rode in on a wave of hype, only to be met by apathy when it reached the shore. With Kane and Lynch: Dog Days, IO Interactive have retur...
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Review 21 Oct 2011 | 06:27 am
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of the Assassin’s Creed series. I bought a 360 for the original and its sequel was one of my games of the year. So it was that the announcement of Assassin’s Creed: ...
Vanquish Review 21 Oct 2011 | 06:18 am
The Japanese games industry is dead. It can’t compete with the action games of the west and is sinking slowly into irrelevance… or something. Apparently someone forgot to tell Shinji Mikami however, a...
How the 3DS could learn from the PSP 3 Jul 2010 | 09:54 am
There’s no question that, when it comes to handheld gaming, Nintendo owns the field. With the DS they did the impossible and made a device more popular than the GameBoy. The DS was like nothing the ge...
