Injustice: Gods Among Us

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 28th April 2013

Rating: 9/10 Long before this game was announced, its questions were hotly debated. Who would win in a fight between Batman and Superman? Green Arrow and Green Lantern? Wonder Woman and Catwoman? Pimply nerds have argued these questions in comic book shops since the Fifties. Now they have a way Read more...

Defiance (PC, PS3, Xbox360)

Posted 5:13pm Sunday 21st April 2013

Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Games (or MMORPG, games that are played entirely online with people from all over the world) are a tricky business. They require significantly more money to develop than a standard video game instalment due to the large scope of content as well as the ongoing costs Read more...

Drug dealers lose a significant portion of their clientele

Posted 5:13pm Sunday 21st April 2013

In a crushing blow to the legalise cannabis movement, new legislation passed on 9 April will require beneficiaries to undergo drug testing when looking for employment from June this year. A 2008 Ministry of Health study showed that those on the benefit are three times more likely to be weed Read more...

Lego City Undercover (WiiU)

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013

The Wii U was launched a year earlier than it should have been. Nintendo denies it, but the truth is that they sold their consoles with promises of games, promises that have now been revealed as lies. When the Wii U was announced at E3 2012 it had a wide variety of launch titles, including Pikmin 3, Read more...

Bioshock Infinite

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013

I could have written this review in five words: fucking awesome, go play it! However, it’s probably my responsibility to explain what exactly about Ken Levine’s new masterpiece Bioshock Infinite elicits this response. Despite the massive steps the video game industry has taken in the past 20 Read more...

God of War vs Gears of War

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013

Back in the days of Playstation vs. Nintendo N64, when choosing a console most people would pick the opposite console to what their friends had, so that you and your mates had access to all the games being released. Now, in the age of PS3 vs. Xbox 360, factors such as online gameplay have created a Read more...

Sim City 5 (2013)

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013

Last year publishing company Electronic Arts (EA) was named the “Worst Company in the World” by Consumer magazine. I am not a huge fan of EA, but I couldn’t help wondering how, in a collapsing global economy, with BP spilling oils into our seas, a video game publisher got voted the worst company? Read more...

Tomb Raider (2013)

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013

It has been a long time since the heyday of the Tomb Raider franchise. The teenagers of the 90s enjoyed nothing more than playing with their heavily-breasted gal pal Lara Croft, but as the generation moved out of their mums’ basements and into the real world Lara was unfortunately left on the shelf Read more...

Crysis 3

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013

Last week’s announcement of the PlayStation 4 has the gaming community asking what the future for our medium holds. What stories are to be told? How they will look? How they will play? I ask, why wait for the future when it is happening now? The release of Crysis 3, the third installment in the Read more...

Aliens: Colonial Marines

Posted 10:23pm Sunday 24th February 2013

For those of you waiting for an exciting new game to play after the dry months since pre-Christmas releases, Aliens: Colonial Marines is not for you. The gaming industry has once again started the year in controversy. Last year we endured the disaster that was the ending of BioWare’s Read more...