Category: PC

It’s been a while now since we’ve had a good old-fashioned city building release, so it was a pleasant surprise to be able to play and review CitiesXL, from Monte Cristo, the French simulation games company. While CitiesXL will be familiar to gamers who have played any of the Sim City incarnations, it still comes…

There is no cliche in gaming more widely used than the ‘kidnapped girlfriend’. It’s one of the most archaic plot devices used in videogames, something the platforming genre has mostly grown out of. So it’s no surprise that Zack Zero uses this trope unabashedly to set up its razor-thin narrative, just one of the many…

Waaay back in 2010, Conrad took a at Runaway: A Twist of Fate, a.k.a. the third instalment of Pendulo Studios’ Runaway series. I’m sure most of you know it: the adventure game trilogy about Brian Bosco, the nerdy physicist who accidentally saves a beautiful gal from some nasty mafia types, and the related hijinks that ensue?…

Launching an MMO in 2009 is easy enough. Getting people interested in it is challenging. Keeping those people you convinced to try it after their first month is up? That’s something few recent MMOs have had anything more than moderate success with. There’s a giant elephant in the room, and it seems appropriate to call…

Just when we thought it was all over, along comes another expansion pack for The Sims 2! The latest (and last) expansion is called Apartment Life, and includes some awesome new features that really add a great deal to the game – but is this release coming to us too late? Apartments and communal living…

I’d just been on holiday with a group of friends. I’d seen plenty of sights, including abandoned houses, old churches and rural villages. Here, I’d witnessed a black market of tobacco growing; where it was dried. later rolled and sold wholesale. Three euros for twenty 100% pure cigars. We’d also climbed abandoned buildings and visited…

Here’s the deal: this is Resident Evil 5. There’s not much new here. But if you have a decent PC and have a desire to check this one out, you can rest easy in the knowledge that it’s a pretty decent conversion. Not familiar with Resident Evil 5 at all? That’s okay – we have…

If you had told me a week ago that I’d be completely and utterly addicted to a game where the player does little more than push chemical elements around from one place to another, I really, really, really wouldn’t have believed you. Alright, so SpaceChem, from Zachtronics Industries, is a bit more intricate than that…

It’s hard to believe that Max Payne has really been gone since 2003. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne didn’t set the world on fire by any means, but the series garnered enough of a cult following thanks to its flashy mechanics and endearing style to make the lack of any follow-up (besides…

Twenty years ago, videogames would be judged solely on one thing: how fun they were to play. Yet “fun” has in recent times become a dubious compliment, a word that suggests archaic thrills in the place of refinement and sophistication. Other art-forms hold a similar aversion to the word and pure enjoyment seems to largely…

Tribute Games lives up to its name with Wizorb: a game that’s a tribute to both The Legend of Zelda and ball-bouncing classics Breakout and Arkanoid, melding both styles together surprisingly well. The land of Gorudo is laid to waste by monsters, and only Cyrus the wizard has orbs big enough to take them all…

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…

“Costume Quest, like every other Double Fine game before it, can be summed up with one sentence: good game, better concept. The developer has an uncanny knack for creating wonderful characters and worlds, and writing genuinely funny, often engaging storylines, but, when it comes to the actual gameplay, it never quite matches up. It’s Halloween…

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…

From the moment I started playing through it, Rainbow Six: Vegas made me its bitch. I consider myself a connoisseur of first-person shooters. I’ve played loads of them, but I’ve never really done tactical shooters and because of this inexperience, Rainbow Six: Vegas made me work to succeed. If I made any mistakes, the game…

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…

Bioshock 2 has long been bemoaned as the sequel that was never needed. The original Bioshock captivated gamers with its thrilling narrative and cast of fantastically eccentric characters; dealing with philosophical ideals, moral choices, a society driven to insanity and the complexities of free will in an underwater utopia gone wrong. Rapture was the star…

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…

Four years. For four years you’ve dreamt of beautiful CGI trains carrying solemn looking passengers and one gun-blade wielding woman, whose acrobatics are nearly as impressive as how fast she dispatches her oppressors. Of vibrant explosions and lush landscapes, with cinematics no less breathtaking. If any of this rings true, then you’ve been waiting for…