Games

1000 Amps

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Toby Hills

It’s always a concern when a download is only 12mb. How much complexity, really, how many flamboyant characters, particle effects, grenade-launcher attachments and pre-baked cutscenes could possibly be packed into such a squashed bundle of kilobytes? 1000 Amps by Brandi Brizzi has layered Read more...

Bioshock Infinite

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Toby Hills

In the aftermath of its first trailer, a friend of mine described Bioshock Infinite’s setting as predictable. “It’s like Pokemon: You’ve got the water ones, and then the fire guy, and then poison and then fucking Gastly and Gengar and shit.” Truthfully, a city in the sky is likely to be the Read more...

Mass Effect 3

Posted 4:53pm Sunday 4th March 2012 by Toby Hills

You know you’re an adult when you realise that Return of the Jedi is the worst of the trilogy. It’s rip-roaring fun, saturated with kooky creatures and clever Force manipulation, but nobody (except poor, innocent old Darth Vader) dies. Mass Effect 2 was strongly influenced by Empire Strikes Back, Read more...

Skyrim

Posted 4:53pm Saturday 25th February 2012 by Bryn Jones

Skyrim should come with a warning: do not start playing lest you are willing to sacrifice body, soul, and hundreds of hours to the cause. Skyrim is the fifth installment of a long-standing series in which freedom and scope are as important, if not more so, than gameplay and storytelling. Thus it was Read more...

Worms: Ultimate Mayhem

Posted 4:57am Monday 10th October 2011 by Toby Hills

Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3, PC (3/5) “Ultimate mayhem?”, you say. How can this incarnation of Worms possibly be the apotheosis of anarchy when it has only been rated E10+ by the ESRB? Worms: Ultimate Mayhem might be a misnomer but it's still Worms (albeit 3D Worms) and it is still Read more...

Burnout CRASH!

Posted 4:55am Monday 10th October 2011 by Toby Hills

Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3 (2.5/5) Speed limits mean that cars don't matter. It's harsh, I know, but that's the truth. It doesn't matter if your car is a V13 with big-ol’ fuel injected cutoffs and chrome plated rods (oh yeah), it will stagnate and slowly die, never able to achieve its Read more...

Cult Classic: Dungeons and Dragons

Posted 3:58am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Toby Hills

Platforms: Literally any flatish surface Remember when it was alright to pretend? The time, way back, when a semi-snapped green stick was a luxurious imagination stimulant? Those days, for most of us, are now long gone. For whatever reason, pretending to be a Beetleborg is no longer awesome. Read more...

Bumpy Road

Posted 3:56am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Toby Hills

Platforms: iOS (4.5/5) A sweetly Up-style elderly couple are taking a Sunday drive. They lounge with the top down, a delicate autumn sun warming the brim of his top hat and the dome of her bonnet. Totally oblivious, are they, to the destruction taking place around their little blue people Read more...

Dues Ex: Human Revolution

Posted 6:11am Monday 19th September 2011 by Critic

Platforms: PC, xbox 360, PS3 (4.5/5) My version of Adam Jensen, protagonist of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, practised Batman's brand of pacifism. Shattered elbow joints, enough brain trauma for hours of unconsciousness, even getting squashed by an industrial freezer; it's all dandy as long as Read more...

Bastion

Posted 2:53am Monday 12th September 2011 by Markus Ho

Platforms: PC, XBLA You can’t help but feel like a child as you play through Bastion, bright-eyed and attentive, completely captivated by the story of the Great Calamity. “Proper story supposed to start from the beginning. Ain't so simple with this one” is how the story of Read more...