Ever since Sony first released details of the PlayStation Vita way back in January last year (or the NGP – next-generation portable, as it was being called back then), I was immediately sold on the premise. Then we were treated to an amazing full reveal in June, showing off the Vita’s hardware and amazing line-up of triple-A games. Sony also [...]
Well, I’ve been checking out the Prologue for King Arthur II by Paradox Interactive & Neocore Games, so now I think I have some idea. In short, the game is very much a Total War style of game, with lots of storytelling and decision-making elements thrown in for good measure. I must admit, I’m not the most ardent fan of [...]
Videogames are about killing. That’s an intentionally provocative statement, but its one that the proponents of the “games are art” movement tend to skip over. They’ll suggest a large number of beautiful games; Shadow Of The Colossus often comes up here, despite being a game whose core gameplay revolves around exploring a landscape in order to find and kill beautiful, [...]
Now that we’ve all had time to get used to the new Xbox Dashboard, Microsoft are running another survey to find out what you think of Xbox Live and the new features. One lucky entrant will win £200 worth of Amazon.co.uk vouchers. Worth a punt, I reckon. Here’s the Xbox survey. Complete it by 5th Feb to be entered into [...]
My favourite game Achievements are the ones that challenge you to play a game differently. Recently I have been tackling the Foxiest of the Hounds achievement for Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Foxiest of the Hounds involves completing the game without setting off a single alarm, rather than my usual style of blasting my way through a level with as many [...]
The Syndicate demo will be out for Xbox Live Gold users on 31st Jan (tomorrow) and PSN on 1st Feb. EA gave us a hands-on preview with the co-op mode. It’s good. Real good. I imagine it would be a bloody nightmare if you play with online randomers. The Western Europe map that will be available is 4-player co-op and [...]
ArenaNet shared an update on the 2012 release of Guild Wars 2, promising to “usher out old thinking – the tired old quest model, stiff repetitive combat, and monthly fees – and usher in the new.” I’m excited at the prospect of innovation in quest models but who’ll collect ten bits of generic animal for random strangers now? March / April [...]
It’s Spring (nearly) and with it come thoughts of cleaning or at least thoughts of other people cleaning. To try and get in to the spirit of the moment I decided to have a bit of a rummage around on my PC and maybe organise it a little. This tends to involve randomly deleting anything that looks messy (i.e. not [...]
I think it’s fair to say that most game developers don’t like the pre-owned market. I wrote a piece a few months ago in response to the Heavy Rain’s creator’s comments, which claimed he was losing out on vast profit. This argument was based on the amount of PS3 trophies awarded to gamer profiles against the amount of recorded Heavy [...]
Excited for the release of Final Fantasy XIII-2? You should be. I know it seems odd after the apparent failure of XIII. Believe me I can understand any hesitations you may have. After playing through the demo three times for your benefit I can safely say FFXIII-2 appears to fix the few issues that XIII had. Combat is faster and [...]
“He’s looking for a Kimura” Get used to this. You’ll be hearing it a lot, at least if the tournament I played is anything to go by. The development team at THQ have worked hard on making the commentary system sound natural. “You’re actually getting live broadcast feeds,” I was told by senior designer Wes Bunn. “The UFC gives us [...]
Following on the heels of Pippa’s annoyance at Order Up!! and its shameless in-app purchasing model, I’ve read a very interesting post from Spry Fox LLC’s game designer Daniel Cook on Google+. In it he explains why they’ve decided not to go with the traditional 99¢ sales model and instead are pursuing the free-to-play route. “There’s a specific revenue graph [...]
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