FAQ Me!

I’m sorry, that title was a lie – these aren’t FAQs they are just Qs. Qs that you guys asked me recently on our Formspring page, so I’ve picked some of the best and decided to answer them here, a little like…

The Games People Play

With the inordinately small amount of time that I actually have for gaming these days what with… oh… this site, you’d be forgiven for thinking that I would, unquestionably, make the most of that time whenever the occasion for gaming decided to present itself.  In…

NFS: Hot Pursuit Burns Up The Gaming Horizon

The opening game of EA’s widely praised conference yesterday was the impressive looking Need For Speed Hot Pursuit.  With Criterion in the driving seat, quality is assured and the series looks to have been placed in the right hands.

With the wild success of the…

Blur – First Look

With its pitch black backdrops adorned with neon bursts, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Blur was going to end up being Boom Boom Rocket with an accelerator pedal and dodgy Subaru spoilers… but it’s not. Although, on the face of it, Blur may appear…

Split/Second: Velocity – First Look

There are a lot of driving and racing games released every year, and sometimes it can be difficult to know which ones are worth playing or not from an over-populated market. They tend to be divided into two camps; those that aim for ever greater…

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…