Category: PC

The mission has failed. Deep below the surface of Apoxus Prime something has gone terribly wrong. An S.O.S. has been received but no-one knows exactly what has happened to the mining colony. As a pilot aboard the responding ERS Pinita Colada, it’s your duty to rescue the mining crew, and maybe while you’re at it,…

Dawnguard, the new vampire-centric downloadable content for Bethesda’s Skyrim, has been out for nearly a month. If you haven’t already been caught up in all of the pre-release buzz, you may be wondering whether it’s worth forking out right now for extra Skyrim content; after all, the game is already so cram-packed full of quests,…

Command and Conquer has been a long running strategy series that has provided an original and engaging string of games to the market. The latest game in the series, Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, has recently been given a much welcomed expansion dubbed Kane’s Wrath. The expansion pack not only adds new units and…

Admit it – you’ve daydreamed of donning black latex-covered Kevlar, crashing through a bank skylight and single-handedly stopping a horde of would-be bank robbers with a handful of well-timed elbow strikes and sweep kicks. We’ve all daydreamed of being a superhero at some time or another, so it’s nice when a game like Sony Online…

Shadow Hearts: From the New World comes dangerously close to being outright awful due to the ridiculousness of the characters. Diverging from stereotypical warriors and princesses in RPGs is always welcome, but not when the characters are unique just because they are so absurd. The worst offender is a large talking cat that has mastered…

The history of wargames saw a divergence of play styles back in the late 80s and 90s. There were hardcore traditionalists, who slavishly painted model soldiers and gained equal pleasure from showing off their models as they did from actually playing games with them. Then there were the board game enthusiasts who, spurning the use…

Writing video game reviews can be a frustrating business. Every writer relishes the occasion when an absolute cracker lands on their desk; those reviews practically write themselves. When a solid, well thought out title makes it way onto the market, every reviewer knows that credit is due where credit is due. The opposite also holds…

The vision and scope of Star Trek (the new video game based on the new version of an ancient franchise) is truly impressive. Commanding the Enterprise, co-op with Kirk and Spock, it has the obvious foundations of a solid, if not spectacular, videogame. To developer Digital Extremes’ credit, they really went for it. It’s got…

Dragon’s Dogma was a weird game when it hit in 2012. It was a unique Japanese take on Western fantasy, peppered with gameplay systems there were unlike anything people had seen before, but also with a lot of rough edges. It was a risky endeavour for Capcom – a new and untested IP, in an…

I hate aliens. Not because I am afraid they will one day take over the world, consuming us through their vaguely organic orifices and using our blood to terraform earth into the spitting-image of Mars. Nor do I hate them because they might one day tempt us into building a gigantic spinning thinga-ma-job with no…

The most pleasant thing about Renegade Ops is it never once tries to be what it isn’t. With clear nods to The A-Team and G.I. Joe, Renegade Ops is the spiritual sequel to each and every one of your favorite late ‘80s titles – as long as they involved cruising around and blowing shit up.…

Creative Assembly seem to have a knack when it comes to extending their games. Given the phenomenal size and depth of their strategy titles, it’s a testament to their development that they keep churning out new add-ons and additions for strategy buffs to tinker with. Ealier this year I had a chance to one of the…

Deponia is a point and click cartoon adventure, strongly reminiscent of LucasArts’ classic Monkey Island series. It’s jam-packed with quirky cartoon characters, clever puzzles, an overabundance of (mostly) witty dialogue, and hilarious slapstick moments. The setting is about as far removed from the Caribbean as you can get, though; Deponia being a planet covered in…

Red Faction: Guerrilla is not a game for people who enjoy character development or meaningful dialogue with NPCs. Red Faction: Guerrilla is not a game for people who enjoy collecting custom weapons and other items. Red Faction: Guerrilla is not for people who enjoy broad, scenic vistas and haunting soundtracks. Red Faction: Guerrilla is for…

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…