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GamingValkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume
Previous titles in the series have put the player in control of the Valkyrie, the Goddess of death who heaps despair on all who cross her path (mwuhahaha, et... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
GamingBejeweled 2
Bejeweled 2 is a puzzle-based game that is huge on the web, extremely addictive, and now available to download from the PS3 Network. The main basis of the ga... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
GamingBionic Commando
Starting off in Ascension City, a ruined metropolis devastated by a nuclear blast, the game really does throw you in at the deep end, with a brutal difficult... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
Gaming
Fuel For Your Anticipation
With a rich flurry of racing games under their belt, such as Colin McRae: Dirt and Racedriver: Grid, gamers may be concerned that Fuel is merely being publis... Read more »| 30 Apr 2009 -
GamingThe Godfather II
The Godfather II is one of the most perfect films ever made; an elegant, complex and thoughtful meditation on the corruption of power packed with career defi... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
GamingNinja Blade
Games are supposed to be fun right? The minute players start to rate games based on visuals or gameplay alone, it's no longer about the fun anymore. This is ... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009
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Gaming
Videogame Writing to Make George Lucas Proud
A Classic Revisited: 2003's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Read more »| 24 Mar 2009 -
Festivals
Edinburgh International Science Festival 2009
Getcha artificial intelligence here... Read more »| 24 Mar 2009 -
Gaming
Madworld
Plot-wise, in Madworld a shadowy game show called Death Watch has taken over Jefferson Island and turned it into desolate warzone almost overnight. Murderous... Read more »| 23 Mar 2009 -
Gaming
Preview: Resident Evil 5
No bones about it, Resident Evil 4 was a shining example of how to re-invent a long-running franchise without ending up with something unidentifiable when pl... Read more »| 02 Mar 2009 -
Gaming
Street Fighter IV
Set sometime after Street Fighter II, the world warriors lock fists and feet once more in a new tournament, which sees a handful of fresh faces enter the fig... Read more »| 27 Feb 2009 -
Features
Seth Godin on Optimism at Crunch-time
RJ Thomson talks exclusively to one of the world’s leading business minds, Seth Godin, about his challenging new book Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, and why life ain’t so shitty after all Read more »| 11 Feb 2009 -
Gaming
Virtual Petri Dishes: Digital Evolution Discussed
Ever wondered what it'd be like to play god? With the possibility getting ever more easy to imagine, The Skinny has organised an event looking at how close digital technology, and games in particular, have got to replicating the key structures of real life. Read more »| 02 Feb 2009 -
Gaming
Silent H
Ever a cryptic series, this game begins with protagonist Alex Shepard waking up strapped to a hospital gurney, being wheeled through a dilapidated hospital, ... Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Gaming
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
It's obvious that Midway has taken a massive amount of care in their use of the DC licence, taking the time to mould each character with their own personalit... Read more »| 20 Jan 2009