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Modern Warfare 2 was always going to have a lot to live up to, after all it’s the sequel to one of the finest shooters to grace the gaming landscape in recent times – the mighty Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare – a game I was more than a little enamoured with and put [...]

Once again it’s been another set of busy months for me on a number of fronts and so effort for writing full reviews for those games helping keep me busy has somewhat gone out of the window. However, here’s another quick review blast for those games that have been occupying my time recently:
WipEout HD: Fury
You’ve [...]

One of my absolute fondest memories of Christmas morning was back in December of 1990.  I can’t recall if it was my first or last present – if it was last, it was not due to my own choice, I’m sure – but I can always remember how it felt.

What a difference five years has made on the PC gaming world. In that time frame, many gaming developers (including Electronic Arts) have written off PC gaming as “dead” or “dying”, and have chose to focus their businesses more on the console market. In a move that has drawn a great deal of [...]

The idea is simple: take the excellent framework of Battlefield 1942 and three of the most popular multiplayer maps that game produced, add in the Frostbite engine used to power Battlefield: Bad Company, simplify the class system and vehicles for a perfect ‘jump in and play’ style game and sit back and watch the copies [...]

Over the last few months or so I’ve been intending to write reviews for a number of games that I’ve played and beaten, though the distraction of playing the games themselves or lack of inspiration when it came to writing that never quite happened. However, so as not to leave them forgotten before I move [...]

Star Ocean: The Last Hope is the final entry in the long-running and pretty well-liked Star Ocean series.  It follows up on the godawful story of Star Ocean 3 and ends the series with a longer, more epic tale of spaceships, symbology, and silliness.
On paper, Star Ocean 4 is a no-brainer.  It’s a series that [...]

Back when the XNA Community Games section was announced, the general reaction that I saw was one of cautious optimism.  The idea of independent developers getting a low-cost entry into the downloadable games field and actually have the chance to earn money doing it sounded like a noble endeavor, but the niggling doubt in the [...]

As ever I’ve been busy playing games over the last few months and thought I’d catch up with another mega review. I had intended for these to be a little on the shorter side than my regular reviews, but it seems my fingers got a little carried away on a couple of them. Ah well, [...]

After finishing Prince of Persia in 2 days, I checked my email to discover that its predecessor from Ubisoft, Assassin’s Creed, was on its way.  Not one to turn down a good game, I gamely fired it up to find out how good it was, especially compared to its spiritual sequel, Prince of Persia.  I [...]