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For anyone looking for a quick way to add another ‘beaten’ title to their Backloggery listing, it seems Skate 2 is the game for you. Looking on the PS Store last night I spotted that, in EA’s infinite wisdom, they’ve released some day-one DLC that will unlock everything in the game (named the “Time is [...]

Rather unsurprisingly the release schedules for January have looked rather bare. In fact, about the only thing of note this month is Skate 2, which lands tomorrow (at least here in the UK that is). This is most welcomed, since I’m currently trying to make some headway into the many games sat on my ‘to [...]

As 2007 became 2008 I ended up taking a look back at my gaming over the year just gone, and having read various lists and summaries of 2008 (and prompted by a friend’s similar exercise) I’ve decided to do a proper look back at the year just gone: a look back at all the games [...]

First things first, Happy New Year one and all. I wish everyone all the best for 2009, here’s hoping it’s a great year for you. And here’s hoping that it works out to be a good year for gaming too. I’ll say one thing, if nothing else I’m certainly going to be kept occupied by [...]

So I find myself in the curious situation where for the last few days, since last Friday probably, I just can’t bring myself to fire up any games and give them a whirl. It’s not for a lack of games – the new Prince of Persia tops a pile of games currently staring at me [...]

I look at Ben’s list of games there, and it got me thinking about what sort of arbitrary ranking I can give to games I happened to like this year.
Then I remembered I actually hate everything. Well, shit.
But wait. Maybe it’s not all bad. I had to like something, right?
Yeah. I think I did. Maybe. [...]

So 2008 is drawing to its close and seeing various ‘the best X of 2008′ type articles pop up here and there on the Interweb I got to thinking about what I consider the best games of 2008. I decided that ‘best’ was probably too much of an inflammatory term to use for such a [...]

The other day Epic released a patch for Gears of War 2 to fix the widely-reported matchmaking issues a lot of people were having. This was a relatively speedy response, however, it only addressed a very small set of the issues people have had with the multiplayer aspect of the game, which still suffers with [...]

When it comes to the current crop of consoles and their respective controllers you will find me placing my arse firmly in the camp that favours the 360’s pad. It’s comfortable in hand, even over extended periods of play, has a good weight to it, provides easy access to voice communication and is generally a [...]

Somehow I missed the news over the weekend that Eidos have been trying to temporarily suppress reviews scoring the new Tomb Raider less than 7/10. Ignoring how insanely idiotic this move was, especially after the whole Kane & Lynch/GameSpot debacle, this story causes me some concern.
See the main drive behind this was apparently Eidos trying [...]