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Games review roundup: Bulletstorm; Killzone 3; Kirby’s Epic Yarn; De Blob 2, Games

Games review roundup: Bulletstorm; Killzone 3; Kirby’s Epic Yarn; De Blob 2

A weekly roundup of our bite-size games reviews, this week featuring ironically cliched shooting from Bulletstorm; ironically uncliched shooting from Killzone 3; unravelled platforming in Kirby’s Epic Yarn and the 3D colouring book that is De Blob 2.

By | Games, Notebook | Monday, 28 February 2011 at 10:28 am

Games review roundup: Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds; Stacking; Tales from Space: About a Blob; 4 Elements, Games

Games review roundup: Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds; Stacking; Tales from Space: About a Blob; 4 Elements

A weekly roundup of our bite-size games reviews, this week featuring frantic fighting from Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds; the ingenious application of Russian dolls in Stacking; an unquenchable appeitite of Tales from Space: About a Blob and the taming of air, earth, fire and water in 4 Elements.

By | Games, Notebook | Monday, 21 February 2011 at 10:29 am

Games review roundup: Test Drive Unlimited 2; Dr Kawashima’s Brain and Body Exercises; Dance Juniors; Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, Games

Games review roundup: Test Drive Unlimited 2; Dr Kawashima’s Brain and Body Exercises; Dance Juniors; Bionic Commando Rearmed 2

A weekly roundup of our bite-size games reviews, this week featuring open-world racing in Test Drive Unlimited 2; more brain training from Dr Kawashima’s Brain and Body Exercises; stepping to the beat with Dance Juniors and the return of the king of swing in Bionic Commando Rearmed 2.

By | Games, Notebook | Monday, 14 February 2011 at 10:12 am

Games review roundup: DC Universe Online; Nail’d; Dead Space: Extraction; Breach, Games

Games review roundup: DC Universe Online; Nail’d; Dead Space: Extraction; Breach

A weekly roundup of our bite-size games reviews, this week featuring a world of superheroes in DC Universe Online; breakneck racing in Nail’d; yet more Necromorph meets plasma cutter action in a PS3 remake of Dead Space: Extraction and explosive action from Breach.

By | Games, Notebook | Friday, 4 February 2011 at 11:07 am

Games review roundup: Dead Space 2; Mario Sports Mix; Spare Parts; Mario vs. Donkey Kong Mini-Land Mayhem!, Games

Games review roundup: Dead Space 2; Mario Sports Mix; Spare Parts; Mario vs. Donkey Kong Mini-Land Mayhem!

A weekly roundup of our bite-size games reviews, this week featuring sci-fi frights from Dead Space 2; sports with a twist with Mario Sports Mix; doing the robot in Spare Parts and an unleashing of clockwork Marios in Mario vs. Donkey Kong Mini-Land Mayhem!

By | Games, Notebook | Monday, 31 January 2011 at 12:07 pm

Gaming handsets to the fore as Nintendo and Sony seek hearts of minds on the go, Games

Gaming handsets to the fore as Nintendo and Sony seek hearts of minds on the go

Sony’s next generation portable entertainment system (codename: NGP) has just been announced, meaning that this year sees not one high profile console release but two.

By | Games, Notebook | Friday, 28 January 2011 at 9:00 am

Games review roundup: LittleBigPlanet 2; Mass Effect 2; Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective; Ilomilo, Games

Games review roundup: LittleBigPlanet 2; Mass Effect 2; Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective; Ilomilo

A weekly roundup of our bite-size games reviews, this week featuring a world of imagination in LittleBigPlanet 2; universe ending action from Mass Effect 2; supernatural sleuthing in Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective and a walk in the park with Ilomilo.

By | Games, Notebook | Monday, 24 January 2011 at 10:01 am

Games review roundup: Kingdom Hearts Re:coded; echochrome ii; Eat Them!; Angry Birds, Games

Games review roundup: Kingdom Hearts Re:coded; echochrome ii; Eat Them!; Angry Birds

A weekly roundup of our bite-size games reviews, this week featuring the Disney meets Final Fantasy RPG that is Kingdom Hearts Re:coded; shadow play from echochrome ii; a cacophony of destruction in Eat Them! and death from above in Angry Birds.

By | Games, Notebook | Monday, 17 January 2011 at 10:44 am

The 10 Best Games of 2010, Games

The 10 Best Games of 2010

2010 has seen its fair share of videogame history, from the unveiling of Kinect and Move, first ventures into gesture control from Microsoft and Sony respectively, to the confirmation that Duke Nukem Forever actually lives; but what hammered on the door for attention and stood out from the rest? Without further ado, here are our ten best games of 2010.

By | Games, Notebook | Tuesday, 4 January 2011 at 9:00 am

Games review roundup: Golden Sun: Dark Dawn; Dead Nation; The Sly Trilogy; Just SING!, Games

Games review roundup: Golden Sun: Dark Dawn; Dead Nation; The Sly Trilogy; Just SING!

A weekly roundup of our bite-size games reviews, this week featuring handheld adventuring in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn; a dose of the undead on the streets of Dead Nation; an overhaul of some PS2 classics in The Sly Trilogy and mobile karaoke with Just SING!

By | Games, Notebook | Friday, 17 December 2010 at 9:00 am

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