Back in the good old days of about fifteen years ago, first-person shooters were not about gritty soldiers with modern weapons, cover mechanics and no sense of irony. They were about faceless and fearless heroes zooming around colourful environments, blowing hundreds of enemies to gibs with ridiculous weapons. Tower of Guns is a game that gleefully recalls a happier time. Read more …
“Words are wind, Asher. It’s choices that define who you are”. If a single line of dialogue could summarise The Sword in the Darkness, the third episode in Telltale’s Game of Throne series, it’d be that one. Read more …
Life continues to be as strange and awkward as expected in Out of Time, the second episode of Dontnod’s interactive sci-fi/teen drama series. Read more …
The first episode of Tales from the Borderlands came along and blew us all away with its high-octane blend of Mad Max action scenes and typical Borderlands humour. It was superb and left us all pumped for the second episode. Unfortunately, the second episode took four months to arrive. Hey ho, it’s here now; but was it worth the wait? Read more …
It has been two weeks now since I built my very first gaming rig. After months of research and years of anticipation I was finally in a position to join the PC master race, and it feels good.
In these weeks of tinkering with internals (hey now) and testing my new rig on various games and programs I have learned that there are many distinct advantages to PC gaming, in fact I have managed to narrow it down to five.
Created to bear resemblance to 8-bit action-adventure games from the 1980s such as “The Legend of Zelda” from Nintendo within a generation of 3D graphics, Silicon Studio’s “3D Dot Game Heroes” is delightfully amusing and does a marvelous job at conveying the feel of an 8-bit classic action-adventure. Read more …