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F1 2011 – Preview
I’ve been watching F1 for as long as I can remember, cheering on every Scottish driver there was (not that many) and cheering any British driver whenever there wasn’t a Scot in the race. You could ask me what it is I love about the sport and I wouldn’t be able to tell you; is it…
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Review
Release Date: Out Now! Developer: Eidos Publisher: Square Enix Singleplayer: Yes Splitscreen: No Multiplayer: No PEGI:15+ (I’d like to thank Square Enix for providing this title free of charge for review) Before I get into this review and start going on about how good Deus Ex: Human Revolution is, I want you to do me…
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Borderlands 2 – 14 Minutes of Gameplay
It’s a scientific fact that at any closed-door event for the gaming press, there will always be someone with a camera filming the whole thing so that he/she can put it up on Youtube. Let us honour these wonderful people, because they bring us such things as 14-minutes of pure Borderlands 2 gameplay footage which…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Warhammer 40K: Space Marine Demo Impressions
A few days ago I posted up a preview of THQ’s upcoming Warhammer 40K: Space Marine, which puts you in the power armor clad boots of one Captain Titus of the Ultramarines as he purges the Ork (and Chaos) forces that are invading an Imperial Forge World. Needless to say, I was excited for the game, and have…
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Waving My Hands In the Air (And I Really Don’t Care)
Written by Lee Garbutt As a long-time gamer, I find it incredibly difficult to keep an open mind about the use of motion controls in gaming – After more than three decades of using various joysticks and controllers, why to anything else? As they say, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Honestly, you could…
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Warhammer 40K: Space Marine – Preview
The biggest problem when creating a game such as Warhammer 40K: Space Marine is trying to ensure that the massive Warhammer lore doesn’t simply bury a newcomer that’s unfamiliar with the universe under a pile of incomprehensible names and references. And yet you need to keep the hardcore Warhammer fans happy as well, and God…
