Rock Band 2
Deja vu is really odd. You feel like you have seen or done something before, but then you slowly realise that you actually haven’t. Rock Band 2 instills this same feeling. At first glance, it looks...
View ArticleTune In Next Week
Episodic gaming seems to be the latest rage in videogaming. It’s often thought of as the next chapter in a story, but this isn’t always the case. The principle behind episodic gaming sees the developer...
View ArticleBorderlands: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned
More of the same is a common approach to downloadable add-ons for games, especially when the game is huge and what’s more is that, quite often, that’s fine by itself. It’s the approach taken with The...
View ArticleResident Evil 5 DLC: Lost in Nightmares
Fans of the original games have often lamented the change in pacing and direction taken by Capcom since Resident Evil 4. For them then, Lost in Nightmares, the first of two substantial sets of...
View ArticleCrackdown 2 DLC: Premium Deluge Pack
Since the release of Crackdown 2 in July 2010, there has been a mixed reception from critics and players alike. Some loved the sandbox environment and war torn look of the cities given to it by...
View ArticleJust Dance 4
In the battle of the Christmas Number One, it tends to come down to a few familiar names; Need For Call of FIFA 4 or something like that. But in the last few years this has been shaken up following the...
View ArticleRocksmith
It can be difficult to review some games in the timeframe we normally give ourselves. While we can grasp the basic mechanics of most games quite, sometimes even reaching the end of the main body in...
View ArticleFar Cry 3: Blood Dragon- First Impressions
The games industry is a funny one for April Fools gags. Every year companies will trot out the standard announcements, most of which are just believable enough to be given a second glance and raise a...
View ArticleDLC Quest
DLC Quest is as much a game as it is a satirical comment on the state of games and the video game industries’ trends today. The game works around “buying” sets of DLC to progress through to story and...
View ArticleCall of Duty Black Ops 2: Uprising DLC
In the age of the micro transaction, it is almost compulsory now for any major ‘Shoot em up’ to release map packs. Hot on the heels of the first DLC, the latest offering comes in a very familiar form...
View ArticleMonth in Japan – March ’14
Spring has finally sprung, after a tentatively snowy closing of winter that shut down much of the country. The sun is out, the birds are singing, and the eyes of the people turn to the slightly...
View ArticleMonth in Japan – June ’14
The rainy season, though only just beginning, has been surprisingly merciful. In its stead we’ve seen some nasty heat waves across Japan, with the lacking rain a promise of greater heights still to...
View ArticleMonth in Japan – September ’14
The summer holidays are over, and so technically is the summer itself, but fun in the sun continues across Japan this month. September is the month of Sports Days, of traditional Japanese games such as...
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