What's New

• March 29, 2010

• Metro 2033 Review

  We suit up and strap in for another apocalypse, though this time with an Eastern flavour. 360 version tested.

• March 26, 2010

• APB vid doc: seven minutes of trashtalk, paintjobs and headshots

  Realtime Worlds staff get their teeth into the features. Non-violent problem-solving: notable by absence.

• March 25, 2010

• Ubisoft – Forgotten Sands isn’t “ground-breaking”

  Prince of Persia 2008 was “a really good experiment”, but latest game will go “back to the normal way of doing things”.

• March 25, 2010

• Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Interview

  Animation Director Jan-Erik Sjovall talks two-tone videogame storytelling, Elika, massive battles and ‘meat and potatoes’ design.

• March 25, 2010

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Review

  FPSGamer goes duck-hunting in EA’s biggest Battlefield to date. Can DICE bring the house down a second time?

• March 24, 2010

• Red Steel 2 Review

  VGD sets foot on the Way of the Agonising Neck Cramp. Can Ubisoft’s Wii MotionPlus slasher knock it out of the park?

• March 19, 2010

• New CD compilation to commemorate 15th anniversary of SEGA’s 32X

  The sounds of “state-of-the-art 32-bit technology”!

• March 17, 2010

• Hunted: The Demon’s Forge Interview

  InXile Entertainment execs on the future of the RPG, the nature of fantasy, changing up co-op gaming and giving Blizzard their first contract.

• March 16, 2010

• Exclusivity doesn’t exist, but it’s still ruining gaming

  Thinking inside the hardware box is neither fun, realistic nor productive, so why do we do it?

• March 15, 2010

• Japanese devs struggle with “real-feeling RPGs” – InXile

  “Cultural nuances” to blame.

• March 15, 2010

• Hunted: The Demon’s Forge Preview

  Our first look at InXile and Bethesda’s co-op-focussed attempt to rejuvenate the traditional dungeon crawler.

• March 12, 2010

• Watch us play Red Steel 2! (plus other, more important people)

  Would.

• March 12, 2010

• Splinter Cell: Conviction Hands-On Preview

  Third Echelon’s old posterboy goes in search of retribution. Our hands-on with Ubisoft’s fifth Splinter Cell.

• March 12, 2010

• Splinter Cell Conviction to last “30-35 hours” altogether

  “Systemic” AI allows for easy mode creation.

• March 11, 2010

• Splinter Cell: Conviction Interview

  Creative Director Maxime Beland on Denzel Washington, the problem of cut scenes, transplantable AI, platform exclusivity and much, much more.

• March 10, 2010

• Nintendo of Japan’s Mario Club now hiring game testers!

  Mmm… minimum wage!

• March 10, 2010

• Thunderforce V among new (old) delights on Japan’s PlayStation Store

  It’s all happening down in the Archives…

• March 10, 2010

• No more hero-worship? Goichi Suda Interview

  If his games were any more 8-bit you’d have to blow on the disc before putting it into the Wii. We talk pixels and punks with Suda51.

• March 9, 2010

• Alan Wake meets the Harvester of Sorrow

  You reap what you sow.

• March 8, 2010

• God of War 3 Review

  How big is big enough? Our verdict on the face-melting conclusion (or is it?) to the God of War trilogy.

• March 6, 2010

• Alan Wake Preview

  We delve deep into the psyche of Remedy’s Oskari Häkkinen in the hope of uncovering some thrilling new details regarding a certain troubled author.

• March 5, 2010

• Metroid: Other M Hands-On Preview

  Samus gets all maternal in the most unconventional Metroid to date.

• March 5, 2010

• SOCOM 4 debut trailer

  SOCOM and get it.

• March 5, 2010

• Sony sequels we’d prefer to SOCOM 4

  Edwin reacts badly to the announcement of yet another sandy-gritty shooty-bang-bang squad-prodder. SOCOM? More like SUCK-OM. (Don’t worry, it gets better.)

• March 4, 2010

• Red Steel 2 Hands-On Preview

  Steel yourself for our hard-hitting hands-on with Ubisoft’s second Wii swordfighting game.