Payday: The Heist Hands On Preview

As far as the criminal underworld goes, there will always be a hierarchy of ‘jobs’. Knocking off your local off licence with nothing but a screwdriver and a pair of stockings could well be considered one of the entry level jobs you may undertake as…

Dead Island – Review

We gamers are very spoilt. Spoilt for choice, spoilt for features and spoilt for entertainment. It’s rarely crossed my mind in the past few years that a game hasn’t ever offered up as much to me as it could, been worthy of its budget or…

Warhammer 40k: Space Marine Review

Relic Entertainment are no strangers to the Warhammer 40k universe, having already created the highly successful RTS series Dawn of War, so when it was announced that they were developing a third person shooter / action game it certainly raised a few eyebrows as to…

GamingLives Podcast Episode One

All Hail, the Return of the King. The GamingLives Podcast makes a return this week and you’ll be pleased to note that we’re back for good. Expect a team of writers from the site to tackle the topics raised right here on GamingLives and throw…

Gaming: The Doorway to a New Age

Written by Peter Doveston

The world is one of pure and stark reality. Inescapable pains, unavoidable troubles. It is not a place where we necessarily want to be ourselves. In response to this fact, man created an anaesthetic to life in the forms of entertainment,…

The Book Of Unwritten Tales – Preview

In a time before meshes; before polygons and dynamic lighting, the graphic adventure was king.  The first of these were a hybrid between the classic text adventures of old and the use of what limited graphical capabilities computers had at their disposal, but it was…

Burnout CRASH! – Hands-On Impressions

So, maybe it wasn’t the announcement we were all looking for from Criterion. Burnout Paradise, a regular game of choice for the GamingLives community, was released way back in 2008, with development finally coming to an end in the Fall of 2009 with the release…