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Sonic Has Seen Better Days It’s been nearly 20 years since we’ve seen Sonic the Hedgehog truly in his prime. The 16-bit era of the Sega Genesis gave birth to the character, but these were also his best days. One of my favorite mascots has fallen far since the mid 90’s, and has never quite felt at…
The next two games in the Pokémon series, Pokémon X and Y, will be released for the Nintendo 3DS October 2013. During a Nintendo Direct live internet broadcast, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata highlighted the significance of the Pokémon brand via retrospective on the entire series and the innovations they have brought to the world…
CES Portable Gaming This year’s CES has seen the announcement of a number of products designed to take high-end PC gaming out from behind the traditional desktop and key board formation. The first of these, which up until this week was known as ‘Project Fiona’, has caused quite a stir at this year’s conference. The…
Zombie Survival Game ‘The War Z’ – Controversy If there’s one thing the geeky world can’t get enough of its zombies. Zombie films, zombie television programmes, zombie toys, zombie video games, zombie everything. For the most part us zombie-philes are grateful for this consistent stream of gory, undead goodness, but late last year a game…
Remember Scrabble? It was a fun word making board game, but since the dawn of smartphones and gadgets, people have really forgotten about old school board games. Today we’re going to review Ruzzle, a highly addictive and entertaining word making game for Android (and uh..iOS too). Taking Scrabble Up a Notch Ruzzle takes the word…
GameStick: Android Budget Based Console on its Way The power balance between the three big names in gaming, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony, looks as though it’ll soon be violently shaken with the announcement that yet another Android based, budget games console is on its way; the GameStick. PlayJam, the developer of the tiny, two inch…
There are some entertainment franchises that appeal to everyone and Ben 10 is a good example of this. Ben 10 games appeal to boys and girls alike and can be enjoyed by any age group. Ben 10 is a long-running series about a boy named Ben Tennyson, who happens an alien device known as the Omnimatrix, which allows…
AAA Games: Beginning to Converge Identities Perhaps this is just my paranoia for games or confirmation bias, but I feel that too many AAA games today are beginning to converge their identities. All too often I buy a game and play it to find, it feels very much like Call of Duty or Gears of…
Retro City Rampage Full Review Retro City Rampage is in essence an invitation by indie game developer Brian Provinciano to immerse ourselves in everything he enjoyed while growing up in the 80’s and 90’s. His game, with its 8-bit graphics viewable in the style of a Nintendo Game Boy, an Atrai 2600 and various MS-DOS…
Phil Fish has made a statement confirming that not only is his unique puzzle plat-former Fez, due to be ported to other platforms sometime in 2013, but that future games are on the way. The announcement was made via a post on the Canadian developer’s company website, Polytron Corporation, in which the somewhat infamous indie…
I have a knack for racing games, especially ones with stunning graphics and life like gameplay. Well, I am sure that most of you have at least heard about the Need for Speed franchise by EA. NFS is the number 1 racing simulation franchise available across multiple platforms. Latest addition to the series is Need…
With Christmas and the Mayan apocalypse behind us we find ourselves looking out to 2013 and the fantastic line-up of video games that sit on the horizon. While it’s impossible to predict which titles will make their mark on the video game timeline, there are plenty of games due for release this year that are…
Establish base, gather resources, build army, crush opponent. This simple series of events is the backbone of any real time strategy game (RTS) old or new and will be familiar to fans of StarCraft II back through to the original Command & Conquer. The progenitor of this template, Dune II, was developed and released back…
From the creators of the highly acclaimed, and top grossing games, ‘Cut the Rope’, comes another spectacular title that is also highly addictive and fun game dubbed as “Pudding Monsters”. Although, the name might sound a little bit wacky at first, but believe me on this one, it is a great game and definitely worth a…
The internet is full of lighthearted and entertaining fan films based off popular video game series, but the recently released trailer for a short film under the simple title of ‘Deus Ex: Human Revolution’ is a far more serious venture. Clocking in at a short but sweet 1 minute 5 seconds there isn’t much to…