Opinion Piece
Top Fifteen Games Of 2011
As we come up to the start of another year, and another year of games, it’s around this time, usually as I’m getting my ass kicked at some game online, that I start to reflect on the year, and without even consciously realising it I start to create a list of my favorite games from […]
5 Reasons Why Skyrim Will Kick Ass!
It’s now just a few weeks until the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim hits store shelves and the entire planet grinds to a jarring halt as masses of gamers call in sick for a month so they can gear up and go adventuring. Sure, Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 are creating plenty of hype with their […]
Skyrim Is Coming: Looking back on the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
In just a few long weeks I’m going to either physically explode or start frothing at the mouth before attacking random strangers and running in circles. The reason for this strange behavior, well, slightly stranger than normal, is the release of the fifth game in the Elder Scrolls series. It goes by the name Skyrim, and […]
Arkham City: Support Your Local Game Developer
Written by Lee Garbutt. As I’m writing this, I’m waiting for my copy of Batman: Arkham City to arrive through my letter receptacle with its shiny, cellophane wrapped goodness ready to be torn open and digested slowly over the next few months. But already the internets’ crybabies have descended to create some sort of minor controversy over Rocksteady/Warner […]
I’m tired of being Called to Duty
As I write this a thought is banging itself against the inside of my head demanding attention, like some sort of irate 4-year old demanding sweets: how many people will just read the title of this little piece and post a rage comment without ever actually reading the whole thing? The sad truth is probably […]
5 Reasons Why Gears Of War 3 Will Kick Ass
Next week the conclusion of the Gears of War trilogy will hit store shelves and gamers consoles all over the world, and it’s shaping up to be one hell of a game. But that’s a week away, and a week can be a long time when your patiently waiting for a game to arrive, so how should the […]
5 Games You Have To Play In The Next 4 Months
In the next four months gaming will see a concentrated barrage of pure gaming awesomeness. As gamers, we are honored and privileged to be alive in this time to witness this display of gaming goodness. There’s so many big titles coming out that it’s surprising time/space isn’t warped, thus creating some sort of unstable bridge […]
Gaming Is Good For me. Honest!
If you, like many people, tend to believe everything the newspapers and other such media outlets tell you at face value, then you’re doubtless aware that gaming is the cause of absolutely everything bad in the known universe. It causes obesity, violence, plagues of rats who are all called Bob and so much more evil! Exactly […]
R.I.P. Gaming “Community”
The whole idea behind this little opinion piece came as I was turning off my Xbox 360 after a session on Call of Duty: Black Ops I’d played around seven or eight rounds, and during each and every one I noted either absolute silence or hails of idiots screaming abuse at each other. And then the realisation […]
