A Plea To Nolan North

Dear Nolan North,

I’d like to begin by saying congratulations on the fine work you’ve done over the years. Your voice has brought life to many characters that might otherwise have been nothing more than gruff, one-dimensional soldiers or nondescript idiots that I couldn’t care…

Rayman Origins – Review

It’s not hard to have felt the hype behind Rayman Origins. If you hadn’t heard the whispers and kept up with the development news, then you certainly would have heard about it when Brian Blessed was cheerily screaming it at you while you waited for…

Star Wars: The Old Republic – Hands On Preview

Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away… actually, 22nd November at W London Hotel in Leicester Square, Bioware were showing off their latest offering to the RPG world: the massively multiplayer Star Wars: The Old Republic .  This is a game that…

Why I Suck At RTS Games

I’m not a bad gamer, not by a long shot. When it comes to first person shooters I’ve pulled off some insane shit over the years. I’ve made that last second kill in deathmatch, grabbed the last point in a game of capture the flag,…

Party Pooper

There are rules to every party. You need to have someone there that craves attention, someone who has to be louder than everyone else and have all focus directed at them. Then there are the random people who just turn up, who talk to no…

Need For Speed: The Run – Review

I have to say, I admire EA quite a lot. They were once seen as some kind of horrible game producing monster that threw out the same game every year because they knew they’d make money, but in recent years they’ve taken steps to make…

Saints Row: The Third – Review

If you’re the kind of reader that skips right ahead to the score then you already know how this review is going to go. But think about why people do that – skipping ahead to the score before they read the text – it’s because…