Grand Defeats

There is nothing quite so satisfying as being rewarded for all your efforts with a game, whether it’s from months of solving puzzles to eventually reach that elusive final boss or just to hit that ultimate level cap and know that you worked to get…

Let Me Draw An Analog-y

Gran Turismo has a lot to answer for. Firstly, it sucked the fun right out of driving games. Let me buy new cars, yes, that’s a good thing (especially if they shoot homing rockets at evil ice-cream vans) but don’t make me fuck around with…

Plain Sight – First Look

There was an ABBA song running through my head when I first laid eyes on this Indie release (no it wasn’t S.O.S). Seeing the advertisements for this one pop on Steam, I found myself quietly singing ‘Take a Chance On Me’. It just started playing…

Naughty Bear – Preview

If a Fable 2 chicken flaps its wings in Albion, somewhere, in the black heart of the action genre, a hapless teddy bear has his stuffing ripped out.  It seems that this generation has had its fill of cute, largely thanks to Nintendo’s family friendly…

Open Worlds

For years I have been playing games, and I’ve seen them develop a hell of a lot, from the simplistic up and down motion of a Pong paddle to the full on open worlds that we enjoy today.

The freedom to explore the game world…

Toy Story

Toys are awesome. I don’t mean the adult variety (although they’re pretty fun too); I’m talking about the likes of Lego, Action Man, Scalextric and Mighty Max. As a child, my main interests in life were computer games, toys, dinosaurs and pretending to be Captain…

My Brother is an Italian Plumber?

Hypothetical scenario time, children. A large, monstrous, mutant vegetable with fangs as long as Bowie knives comes towards you leering menacingly, as you happen to innocently be waddling along the pavement towards the shops in search of… I don’t know; chocolate or something. Do you…