SSX (2012)
By Jason Noonan. Published 30 March 2012
EA Sports have released their fifth installment in the SSX franchise and it pulls off the biggest trick yet, a solid improvement over previous entries on the PS2 which had only...
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Mass Effect 3
By Alex Cole. Published 31 January 2012Ah, Mass Effect. You came for the controversy over blue alien bottoms and stayed for the killer story and gameplay. The last entry for this series was written up as...
Beats and Beets
By Alex Cole. Published 23 January 2012If there’s one thing apps do perfectly these days, it’s games. And if there’s two things, it’s games and music (cute animals)
Fashion Gift Guide 2011
Published 19 December 2011Christmas Gift Guide 2011 Photography Ross Fraser McLean Styling Alexandra Fiddes Location Such and Such studio www.suchandsuchstudio.co.uk Above: Bang pin £10 Made In The Shade www.wearemadeintheshade.com ...
Skyrim
By Alex Cole. Published 11 November 2011Save the pretty, pretty world
RAGE
By Martin Perry. Published 17 October 2011RAGE game review
Batman: Arkham City
By Alex Cole. Published 30 September 2011The Dark Knight reloads
Dead Island
By Alex Cole. Published 28 August 2011Zombie games are zombie games these days, right? Mysterious plague, few survivors, fighting for their lives, slowly killed off one by one. Job done. But the makers of Dead Island...
L.A. Noire
By Alex Cole. Published 21 June 2011L.A. Noire is not L.A. Confidential. Don’t even think that. Never mind the setting, the time period, the plot points, the corrupt system, the do-gooder cop with the tragic past...
How to Disappear Completely
By Alex Cole. Published 06 June 2011Make sure the hackers have to work extra hard to find you
Brink
By Alex Cole. Published 18 May 2011A team shooter that can't shoot straight
Halo: Reach
By Alex Cole. Published 16 September 2010Halo is so closely linked with the first person shooter genre that it’s hard to imagine what shooters were like before it. The series did so many things right, from...
Starcraft 2
By Alex Cole. Published 16 August 2010Reviewing Starcraft 2, if you’re old enough to have played the original, is like reviewing your daughter’s school play: you’re biased no matter what. If Starcraft 1 hit you at...
Game Designers Unite
By Alex Cole. Published 10 August 2010Never fear, techies, there’s a place to dodge the rain and indulge in all things digital at the festival this month. BAFTA is hosting a workshop for video game nuts...
Play On: Edinburgh Interactive
By Alex Cole. Published 01 August 2009Button-mash your Fringe away
Circuit_Strike.One.
By Tony Maguire. Published 22 July 2009All you need to know about CS.One is in the game’s tagline: “Kill everything. Touch nothing.” Gameplay can be likened to the arcade classic Asteroids, while fans of Geometry Wars...
download: Game on
By Alex Cole. Published 21 July 2009Video game competition needs your thumbs
Download
By Alex Cole. Published 01 July 2009While the words ‘convention’ and ‘geek’ seldom make for a happy union, at the very least the fallout from LA’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) and Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC)...
Star Ocean: The Last Hope
By Dave Cook. Published 26 June 2009The latest chapter in this often overlooked role-playing series is a sprawling epic, standing comfortably alongside the best the genre has to offer. In a clever move by developer Square-Enix,...
Upload
By Alex Cole. Published 24 June 2009Call them Davids against Goliath, call them underdogs, but don’t call them short on ambition. Two new search engines hit the tubes this month, looking to take on Google’s search...
