The latest outing for the 17 year old journalist and his furry pal! Being a childhood fan of Tintin, I was slightly apprehensive when I saw the trailer for the new animated film. I find that there’s always a risk when a TV show or film I loved as a child is re-made or revived …
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Time to gargle some boiling oil & get your man voice on! Gears of War 3 was amongst the most anticipated titles of this year, and with good reason! The Gears franchise both reinvented the way that players view the classic third person shooter genre, and prompted developers to up their game when it came …
Brand new We Sing waves the flag for top British artists Nordic Games Publishing’s We Sing UK Hits, the first edition of We Sing dedicated to British artists, is out today exclusively on Wii™, featuring 40 iconic UK hits and including 20 worldwide No.1 songs. “The United Kingdom continues to dominate the world’s music stage …
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of being sent to GAMEfest, a fairly large games expo held at the Birmingham N.E.C., to get my hands on some of the releases coming up in the near future. From what I can gather, GAMEfest is an annual event, hosted by the UK chain of GAME stores, and this …
Game Inspired by Upcoming Green Lantern Film Shines Light on Console and Handheld Systems Today Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment today announced the North American release of Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters. The action-adventure videogame, inspired by the upcoming Warner Bros. Pictures’ superhero feature film Green Lantern, based on the DC …
Best-Selling Atari 2600 Video Game of All-Time Returns in Early 2011 for Xbox LIVE Arcade for Xbox 360, PlayStation Network, and Windows PC Download 30 years ago Yars’ Revenge took the gaming world by storm as one of the first arcade shooters and became the best-selling original title for the Atari 2600. Now three decades …
A gritty crime shooter that could have been so much better. Kane & Lynch: Dog Days is a third person shooter published by Square Enix, who are probably better known for their RPG games than their third person shooters. It follows on (although very loosely, or so I’ve read) from 2007’s ‘Kane & Lynch: Dead …
Creators of original BioShock� look to the sky in the next chapter of the award-winning franchise 2K Games announced today that BioShock� Infinite, a first-person shooter, is currently in development at Irrational Games, the studio behind the original BioShock� which has sold over 4 million units worldwide. Set in 1912, BioShock Infinite introduces an …
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A fan-made adventure fit for a king? I’ve generally had a pretty average experience with fan-made games. While I recognise that it takes a lot of time and effort to make a videogame, in most of the fan-made games I’ve played, the graphics are mediocre (understandable on a practically non-existent budget) and the plot often …
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You have just entered ‘The Penal Zone!’ It seems hard to believe that it’s been 2 years since Season 2 of the Sam & Max episodic game format came to an end, but apparently it has! For those not familiar with the series’, Telltale produce adventure games released in an episodic format over the course …
Sam & Max Season 3 Episode 1: The Penal Zone Review (PC) Read More »
Adventure gaming honestly doen’t get a lot better than this. The Tomb of Sammun’ Mak is the second instalment in the third series of Telltale’s Sam & Max episodic adventure games. This episode sees Sam & Max controlling their great, great uncles (or something along those lines) Samus & Maximus, who are almost exactly identical …
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Yet Another Movie Cash-in! I’ll openly admit that I’ve have a fairly bad experience of movie tie-ins. Most of the games I’ve played that have been based on films have been obvious cash ins with limited life & pretty much no replay value, with a couple of notable exceptions (Goldeneye springs to mind). Because of …
