Archive for 'Thoughts'

Here we are again, the start of another year and another decade, and so it’s time to look back at the year that’s passed. As with 2008 I’ve decided to do a proper look back at my gaming for the past twelve months: so all the games of 2009 whether they were started, finished or [...]

It’s not been a bad time for gaming recently; between the delights of various games like Uncharted 2, Modern Warfare 2, Brutal Legend and some other games ending in 2 there’s been plenty to sink my teeth into, and more besides. However, thanks to the commercial powerhouse that is Modern Warfare 2 this year’s Q4 [...]

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 [...]

This weekend I found myself heading to London town to check out the last day of the Eurogamer Expo and take a look at a number of upcoming titles that were there. It was a pretty good day out all in all and there were a bunch of great games to get hands on with, [...]

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
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So the new trend for a lot of big titles seems to be to re-release the game about a few months to a year after the game’s original release. A few examples of this include Star Wars: The Force Unleashed – Ultimate Sith Edition and LittleBigPlanet: Game of the Year Edition. Both of these games [...]

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.

On September 9, 2009, retailers around the world will open boxes of The Beatles: Rock Band and dispense its hotly anticipated goodness into the hands of thousands of fans of the band and the music rhythm game genre. The game will likely be feted as the pinnacle of nearly a half-decade’s worth of game [...]

I’ve been running through my fair share of video games lately, and one thing I noticed about a few of them as I was playing was that either I’ve become extremely fickle, or there are some really balls-to-the-wall bad ideas being trumpeted right at the start of games that really make the entire game unplayable.  [...]

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 [...]