Author: james

Ever since League of Legends exploded a few years back, everyone has wanted to jump on the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) bandwagon and get a slice of that eSports money. Some titles – like Dota 2 – carved out their own niche, and are doing well for themselves. Others – like Heroes of Newerth…

We were all arguing the merits of the latest console controllers and we were at the stage where bets were being made and the older team members were starting to reminisce about joysticks. Suddenly the Editor popped his head out of his office and said “who’s up for a review of a game that mixes…

Well here we are, at the sixth iteration of the turn based strategy RPG Heroes of Might & Magic (HoMM). This time, Black Hole Entertainment and Ubisoft have decided to make the series a bit more accessible, while still keeping the same aesthetic as the previous game. Ultimately, I found this latest rendition to be…

I’m kind of in love with Machinarium. That really sets the tone for the whole review, doesn’t it? The thing is, I’m exactly the kind of person that a game like Machinarium is targeted towards. I love adventure games, and being an indie developer myself, I’m always partial to the unique gems that come out…

The fans have been howling for this one, and lo, their prayers have been answered: the deranged chaos of The Sims has been picked up and plonked down in the middle of Ye Olde Sunset Valley. Verily, The Sims Medieval is upon us, a game where the toilets have been replaced with chamber pots, and…

Crysis gave gaming and computer enthusiasts around the world a huge electric shock. An electric shock that would end up costing between $1500 – $5000 to anyone who got involved. This large sum of money was spent on graphics cards, processors, motherboards, processors, and water cooling units. Crysis sparked PC gamers to upgrade their system…

When it comes to videogame dystopias they tend to fall into two main categories. Dingy and dirty like Fallout and Bioshock, or so obnoxiously clean that you know something is wrong. Much like the Mirror’s Edge series, The Tomorrow Children from Q-Games falls into the latter category. As far as microtransactions go, these ones are…

World of Warcraft (WoW) is an interesting – and unique – game to assess. Originally released in 2004, the base title has been continually expanded over time, and in many ways barely resembles the version many of us first logged on to eight years ago. Considering that, however, the WoW we play today does still…

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…

In the beginning, there was Command & Conquer. Sure, you can talk about Dune II and Herzog Zwei but if you’re looking for the definitive, original RTS game that really set the genre alight, there’s only one contender: Command & Conquer. Westwood studios took a fresh, emerging genre and polished it into one of the…

What started out as a fantasy trilogy and now spans five books (with a planned total of seven in the series), A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin is one of those series that has set a benchmark for the genre. Full of intrigue and strong characterization, it is what we…

In a traditional monster and magic-based card game players are restricted in a certain sense. The deck can only have so many cards, each player is limited to using what is only in their hand, and they can only react when it is their turn. In EA’s brand new ‘BattleForge’ players take the card game…

So this is it, the end of TellTale’s The Walking Dead adventure game. Well, season 1, anyway. So how was it? In a word – amazing! In two words – amazingly upsetting; but don’t worry, it was completely in the way TellTale intended. As I have mentioned in my previous reviews throughout the series, this…

The Asian Dynasties is a new expansion for Age of Empires III, where you get to play as—yes, you guessed it—one of three Asian civilizations: China, India, and Japan. Big Huge Games are involved this time, and they’ve delivered something fresh for AOE III players. With the three new civilizations come three new single-player campaigns.…

For those who can remember that far back, games like Might and Magic (1986), Dungeon Master (1987), and Eye of the Beholder (1991) were the first foray into 3D graphics for the Dungeons & Dragons role playing genre. Innovative for their time, players effectively moved across a gridded environment, one square at a time, fighting…

There’s a problem with Garshasp: The Monster Slayer. To be fair, there are several problems, but the fundamental one is this – I want to like it. And you will too. Dead Mage Inc. have released, at best, an average game. At best. But you have to give credit to this independent developer, who took…

I was attracted to Mount&Blade; from the first time I saw it. It’s an underdog of a game (though some will – unfairly, I feel – truncate that to just ‘a dog of a game’). Coming from a small development team – TaleWorlds, based in Turkey – this Medieval Role-Playing Game was never going to…

Will Wright’s Spore was one of last year’s most innovative PC games and spawned one of the largest collections of phallic-symbol monsters on ever seen. But there was one thing lacking: when you ventured into the space age you couldn’t go to a planet and roam around the environment as you had done in the…