Games

Hide

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Toby Hills

Hide opens with a spacebar-shaped rectangle next to four typical directional buttons. The spacebar is labelled as allowing the player to “hide”, but really it’s an utterly useless crouch button. Squatting slightly closer to the freezing snow that makes up the game’s environment does not fool the Read more...

OSCURA

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 5th August 2012 by Toby Hills

In Oscura you play, in established platform-game tradition, as a small mammalian everyman who plies a noble trade. Not a bandicoot plumber, I’m afraid, but a non-specific rodentish creature who attends to the lighthouse on a fantastical island. One day the bulb is shattered, unleashing shadowy Read more...

The Last of Us - PREVIEW

Posted 2:15pm Sunday 29th July 2012 by Toby Hills

With The Last of Us, developer Naughty Dog replaces the lush temple vistas, charmingly witty characters, wholesome fun and will-they-won’t-they dynamics of their previous franchise Uncharted with lush overgrown cities, gloomy-but-still-likable characters, brutal strangulations, and adult Read more...

Watch Dogs - PREVIEW

Posted 2:15pm Sunday 29th July 2012 by Toby Hills

Watch Dogs, another intriguing title from this year’s E3, is about killing people using Facebook. Aiden Pearce, the painfully generic protagonist, wields dystopian “Google-goggles” to identify his target. In an instant, a juicy fact is revealed about every person he scans: “HIV positive”, “charged Read more...

Dishonoured - PREVIEW

Posted 10:46am Sunday 22nd July 2012 by Toby Hills

Platform: Xbox 360, PS3, PC | Developer: Arkane Studios | Genre: Stealth, Action Why can my telepathy grant momentum to granite boulders and dead people, but not living ones? Why can my fireballs ignite moist fleshy alien-scum, but not the wooden floorboards beneath them? Why, video Read more...

Resistance: Burning Skies

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 15th July 2012 by Robert Hill

PLATFORMS: PSVita | GENRE: FPSz The PSVita is here, and the game that gets the title of “First FPS on a dual-stick portable device” is Resistance: Burning Skies. However, those who already have the Vita (and I doubt many of you do) might want to give this one a miss. Story-wise, Read more...

Dragons Dogma

Posted 5:13pm Sunday 8th July 2012 by Toby Hills

Platforms: PS3 & XBOX360 | Genre: RPG Here, for you to peruse at your leisure, is a typical session of Dragon’s Dogma: “Wolves are sensitive to fire. Wolves don’t like being burned. If you attack a wolf with some kind of incendiary spell or burning arrow it will do extra damage. They hunt Read more...

Max Payne 3

Posted 8:39pm Sunday 3rd June 2012 by Vimal Patel

I stumble into my room, which is more of a mess than a coke addict’s savings plan. Falling into the chair in front of my desk, I stare into the screen. It stares back at me with a look of pure contempt, taunting me with the question: why didn’t you like Max Payne 3? Just like the game itself, Read more...

Borderlands 2

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Toby Hills

Platform: PC, PS3, Xbox 360 Genre: Shooter, RPG Borderlands 2 ostensibly contains all the ingredients necessary for a game to be tremendous, addictive fun. It begs to be assessed on its prettiness. The first Borderlands had a tendency to litter its desert fields with identical, Read more...

Trials Evolution

Posted 7:58pm Sunday 20th May 2012 by Toby Hills

Platform: Xbox 360 Genre: Puzzle, Racing Trials Evolution is frustrating. Not just because it’s really hard, but because the art-direction of its levels loves to poke fun at you. A Nitro Circus-inspired motocross rider can slide effortlessly along a thin girder on a partially constructed Read more...