Games
Up & away with Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
Getting to grips with g-force, barrel rolls and sickbags in preparation for Namco Bandai’s “Ace Combat: Assault Horizon”
By Michael Plant | Games | Tuesday, 11 October 2011 at 9:04 am
The Cardboard Dream Machine
In these times of high polygon hypnotics and lucid dreamlike sprite animations, it’s refreshing when a game like The Dream Machine is winning awards with the most primitive of graphic environments. The Dream Machine is a new point-and-click adventure game made almost entirely out of clay and cardboard.
By Jake Hanrahan | Games, Notebook | Monday, 10 October 2011 at 12:46 pm
If your yeds aw muggl’t up…
…then fear not because help is close to hand. For an iPhone app has been launched to assist people struggling to understand the Wigan dialect.
By David Crookes | Games, Notebook | Wednesday, 24 August 2011 at 4:41 pm
Prime Minister’s Questions – The Game
Text-based adventure games are often perceived as a pixelated debacle of trolls, orcs and wizards, testing the patience of the player as they travel down a road stolen from Tolkein’s imagination. However, a little know independent video games developer named Mark Richards, has reinvented the turn based genre by adding the raucous ruling of politics into the mix. He has reconstructed the parliamentary roleplaying that is the Prime Minister’s Questions, into a homemade pixelated game.
By Jake Hanrahan | Games, Notebook | Monday, 8 August 2011 at 4:57 pm
Games review roundup: Motorstorm Apocalypse; Moon Diver; WWE All Stars; The 3rd Birthday
A weekly roundup of our bite-size games reviews, this week featuring off-road destruction from Motorstorm Apocalypse; side-scrolling retro slashing in Moon Diver; Tombstones, DDTs and more in WWE All Stars and the time-warping craziness of The 3rd Birthday.
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Monday, 11 April 2011 at 11:47 am
Games review roundup: Shift 2: Unleashed; PES 2011 3D; Okamiden; Super Monkey Ball 3D
A weekly roundup of our bite-size games reviews, this week featuring the horsepower of Shift 2: Unleashed; a new dimension for football sims in PES 2011 3D; dog paint dog with Okamiden; more from AiAi, MeeMee, et al in Super Monkey Ball 3D.
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Monday, 4 April 2011 at 9:48 am
Games review roundup: Crysis 2; Pilotwings Resort; Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition; Ridge Racer 3D
A weekly roundup of our bite-size games reviews, this week featuring nanosuited power games in Crysis 2; the flight paths of Wuhu Island in Pilotwings Resort; more fisticuffs from Ryu, Zangief, et al in Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition; and don’t mirror, don’t signal, manouvre anyway in Ridge Racer 3D.
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Monday, 28 March 2011 at 9:38 am
Games review roundup: Yakuza 4; Homefront; Samurai Warriors: Chronicles; Yoostar 2: In The Movies; uDraw Studio
A weekly roundup of our bite-size games reviews, this week featuring underworld dealings from Yakuza 4; war on America in Homefront; the 3D samurai of Samurai Warriors: Chronicles acting the fool with Yoostar 2: In The Movies and the artistic delights of uDraw Studio.
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Monday, 21 March 2011 at 9:27 am
Games review roundup: Dragon Age 2; Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together; Hard Corps: Uprising; Popcap Hits! Vol. 2
A weekly roundup of our bite-size games reviews, this week featuring swords and sorcery aplenty in Dragon Age 2; tactical warfare from Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together; good old side-scrolling shooting in Hard Corps: Uprising and a second compilation of download classics via Popcap Hits! Vol. 2.
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Monday, 14 March 2011 at 8:45 am
View from the ground at Microsoft’s Spring Showcase 2011
As the dust fell on Microsoft’s 2011 Spring Showcase it wasn’t just the Xbox 360’s – on the go from midday until midnight – which were relieved to have survived.
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Friday, 4 March 2011 at 12:00 pm
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