Author: james

Aylon takes a look at the second of five chapters in Telltale’s latest multi-part adventure game. If you’re not already aware of the title, which is based on the hit The Walking Dead comic books, be sure to check out for a bit of background. While it may start off quietly, it takes less than five…

Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (or MMORPGs, for short) are, thanks largely to media darling World of Warcraft, very much on the rise. The genre is positively exploding; it seems you’re not a real video game publisher if you don’t have a few on the boil. Commanding some ten million players (at last count…

Homefront: The Revolution is a game with flaws. Lots of flaws. Nothing about the game is particularly broken, it’s just so many things seem to be done poorly or are just jarringly ill-fitted. At its most basic, Homefront: The Revolution (H:TR) is a first person shooter set in a world where North Korea has taken…

For you young-guns, there was once a series of escalating political tensions referred to as the Cold War, during the late seventies and early eighties. It was an era when the doomsday clock ticked and the world lived under the ever-present threat of nuclear war. Peace was maintained thanks only to a strategy known as…

Wow… Ten gigabyte install” will be the first impression you get from Mercenaries 2 on the PC. It is however justified as Mercenaries 2 has improved vastly over its predecessor in the sense that it is bigger, badder, and more addictive than the previous installment. This time the Mercenaries have stopped off in Venezuela to…

In case you missed all the hullabaloo surrounding Rainbow Six Vegas, the general consensus was that it was a fun game that (largely successfully) minimized the tactical nature of previous Rainbow Six games, and upped the action immensely. A lot of people enjoyed it – and then word came that a sequel would be released…

Neverwinter Nights 2 was a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, it offered up a compelling world, a rich story, and some decent gameplay mechanics. But on the other hand, it was plagued by all sorts of problems, including absurd system requirements and terrible camera options that made it hard for some…

At first glance, you may be forgiven for thinking this is ‘just another tower defence title’; after all, it features towers to block and defend against incoming attackers. However, Defenders of Ardania is a tower wars game, a genre derived from Tower Defence which originated as WarCraft 3 multiplayer mods. The premise is simple: each player releases…

Tiny and Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers is an intriguing puzzler / platformer from Black Pants Studio. In it, you play as Tiny, a funny little fella whose grandfather recently passed away. Now apparently Gramps was a bit of an adventurer as well, and when he died he bequeathed a very special object to Tiny: his underpants.…

The review for this game has been a long time coming – seriously. Ghostbusters for me, like so many others of my generation, was so much more than a movie; it was a cultural phenomenon. At my house, we had the Ray Parker Jr. 45 that I used to play over and over on our…

It’s a hard road being the perfect manager, and Football Manager 2012 definitely hammers that point home – it’s so in depth it’ll make your head spin, at least at first. As newcomers to the Football Manager series, we take a dive into the world of managing a professional football team – in our case…

Tower Defence, originally invented as a web-based strategy experience, is quite a bit like a real time strategy game. The difference is that your only focus is defense (your goal is to prevent waves of enemies from penetrating your defences and reaching the goal) and you don’t tend to build mobile units, only defensive structures…

Everyone who plays it says they love Viva Piñata – and if you own a 360, odds are pretty reasonable that it’s a game in your collection. For those of us who have been out of the loop however, we could only turn green with envy as we watched Viva Piñata pronounced as one of…

The original Xbox 360 version of Gears of War was something of a turning point for Microsoft’s latest console. Well, perhaps turning point is the wrong phrase to use, but it was certainly one of the first games around that truly felt ‘next gen’- at least to me. I was impressed not only by the…

Bioware’s 2002 classic Neverwinter Nights practically reinvented the Role Playing genre on PC, adding in copious amounts of nifty new stuff (not least of which was the killer Dungeon Master mode, allowing your pen & paper role playing group to transfer their gaming experience to the computer, complete with a real Dungeon Master pulling the…