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Square Enix’s successor to the still popular MMO Final Fantasy XI has had a rather tumultuous history. First released back in 2010, FFXIV was received with scorn at worst…

Rogue Legacy could be one of the sleeper hits of this year. I genuinely would have overlooked this game if it were not for the fact I had to review it. Thankfully I was given a…

Zombies have evolved over the years. Originally used in B movies as a way of keeping the costs down and, afterwards, used in gaming as a way of introducing easy-to-programme AI.…

Uncharted 3, Bioshock 2, Resident Evil 5; you may think these are strange titles to compare with a WW2 RTS like Company of Heroes 2, but actually, they all share one key similarity

This week we are giving away copies of Relic Entertainment's classic RTS sequel, Company of Heroes 2. We published our review earlier today and scored the game a whopping 9 out…

After being told by what felt like everyone I knew that Telltale’s The Walking Dead was the “best game ever” and I “had to play it”, I bought and installed it; ready to…

Bridging the gap between seasons one and two of Telltale Games' phenomenally successful The Walking Dead comes this short appetiser, bringing with it all the split second…

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The nihilistic and brutal atmosphere of the Mad Max film series initially seems like an unusual choice for an open-world "vehicular combat" game. However, the dystopian,…

Sector 7-4-9er is an odd title, hidden away in the depths of the Xbox Live Indie section, the space mining sim has a solid core idea but seems to fall short in a number of other…

An E3 without a zombie game is like a reanimated corpse that does not constantly crave human flesh: not unheard of, but rare. 2013 was no exception, but one of the few new IPs…

I'm not the sort person who is fond of Indie games. I like my big name titles, my polished graphics and my big budgets. I dislike titles that I can't add to Steam or that…

20-odd years ago, I recall sitting in my living room with two of my older brothers as we prepared to embark on a quest of such enormity that not one of us would experience any…

There is something that feels familiar about Magrunner: Dark Pulse, a first-person puzzler from developer Frogwares. There is certainly a very Portal feel about affairs, from the…

It's almost that time of year when gamers around the world unite in one big season of spending and game playing. Or spending and never playing. With summer time now officially…

Introducing your game to the world by bisecting a zombie with a circular saw duct taped to a sledgehammer is certainly one way to attract attention. In a typically understated…

When a multiplayer component was first announced for The Last of Us, my eyes rolled so far into the back of my head that my pupils poked me in the frontal lobe. What followed the…

Generally speaking, people don’t like EA. That’s a given for any self-respecting gamer. “Sure, they produce some great games, but they just make horrible decision…

Once again, we are giving away copies of Arrowhead Games Studios' The Showdown Effect, published by Paradox Interactive. We had a great response last time, so if you missed out in…

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