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Borderlands 2 – Preview

Borderlands 2 – Preview

Our updated FULL Borderlands 2 preview, including an interview with concept artist Scott Kester can be found here.

This could have gone one of two ways. Maybe three ways, actually. When a game that captured your imagination out of the blue, took hold of…

Yarrgh! Real Pirates!

Yarrgh! Real Pirates!

Man, pirates are awesome, aren’t they? Yarrgh! Shiver me timbers! Batten down the hatches! Full sail ahead! It’s a life you’re probably envious of – no rules, no one to tell you when to wash, and plenty of rum as long as you get there…

Milking The Cash-Cow Dry

Milking The Cash-Cow Dry

Picture a cow. Pretty isn’t it? Imagine those big, almost buoyant udders that look like milk-filled marigolds. Picture those vacant, childish and friendly eyes staring at you with wonder and enchantment. Think about the patchwork ink-spots of black and the vast atlases of white spread…

Is Replay Value Vanishing from FPS?

Is Replay Value Vanishing from FPS?

Today’s gaming industry is a fast moving one. Trends come and go, games flourish or wither depending on a large number of variables, developers on the climb one month, find themselves languishing and in danger the next. At the heart of all the goings on…

A Happy Ending

A Happy Ending

It’s been twelve hours since you pressed ‘New Game’ and the credits are rolling, it’s all over. Your quest to save the world has been a success, you are the hero of the land and everyone is safe, all thanks to you. The credits come…

One Boy, Two Controllers

One Boy, Two Controllers

It’s hard growing up. Kids are fierce creatures, capable of deceit, hatred and heartbreak, often all in one go (or so they proclaim, loudly, to anyone who will listen to their incessant bloody whining about how awful their lives are). Friendships are formed and broken,…

The Summer Drought

The Summer Drought

By Callum Thomson

Just like hose pipe bans and “the hottest temperatures since records began”, we have had a ‘summer drought’ of gaming in recent years, one which the AAA titles seemed to avoid, for no reason known to us, other than saving the big…