The recent tax breaks for the UK Games industry, announced last week by the Chancellor, have been received with great joy from the majority of the people in the industry. It is a great win for us all and for the UK in general. UPDATE 1 Ok, we have had an official statment from UKIE. …
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Well, this is a pleasant surprise. Bioshock creator Ken Levine has been nominated to earn pride of place in the 2012 edition of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. Now, there is some biased involved in me demanding your attention. Bioshock is one of my favourite games of all time, and hopefully …
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Gaming peripherals have come a long way since the Commodore 64! Many moons ago, when games came on a tape, the only thing I had to play my chosen title with was a mouse and the monitor. Fast forward 20 years and I find myself looking at the amount of gear I have stowed away …
As the second season of The Walking Dead closed, something rather wicked stirred in the shadows. It was of course, the trailer for The Walking Dead: The Game, Telltale’s next big pop culture project since Jurassic Park: The Game. Promising to turn attention away from Rick’s ragtag group of survivors and focus on the comic …
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The glory days on consoles may be facing their end as games go free on other platforms. Angry Birds Space was a game I hadn’t heard of until today. I played the first one and found it novel enough to enjoy and play on a regular basis. The game stayed consistent on my phone for …
Lets Keep Kain sacred! Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen was a turning point in my gaming life. A friend of mine and I went out and bought each other gifts for Christmas one year. With a $10 budget, there wasn’t a huge selection, so I went to best buy and picked out the only game …
Today’s reader is an odd one to us reviewers – it seems that rather than taking an informed and well-explained reasoned article, most readers now expect a review to be a simple marketing piece. Take scoring – any game that gets less than a 9 tends to get horribly derided, and often if a loved …
Creating a Mass Effect 3 save file on my console seems to have absorbed every other game that comes in its way. Firstly Shepard donated his armour to the cause in ‘Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning’, as well as some rather swish Omniblades. Next, an N7 themed snow-board arrived inconspicuously on my ‘SSX’ profile. Now, it …
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Yesterday the gaming universe exploded with talk of BioWare wanting to change the ending of Mass Effect 3. This came after waves of people feeling that BioWare had let the down and that the ending was rubbish. I too got swept up in the moment and tweeted the following; “I think BioWare should not change …
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I just beat Modern Warfare 3 (a little late, I know) the other day and it got me thinking about how much Hollywood had affected video games today. As time inches on, we are seeing an increase in games becoming more simplified and following an almost formulaic system when it comes to story progression. It …
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Have you ever read a review and thought “I can do better than that!”? Ever read an article and just face palmed at the stupidity of the author? Well now is your chance to do something about it. Yet Another Review Site is looking for games reviewers, news editors and writers and it couldn’t be …
I am often reading articles, comments and tweets from people complaining about the review industry being corrupt and broken. I was just on one site that’s homepage opening gambit talked about how it was different, as it’s user reviews were not the product of bribes. Others complain that giving games arbitrary scores for graphics etc. …
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