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Spec Ops: The Line is not a game I have been following so when I heard the demo was available to download, I wasn’t fully sure of what to expect. But what’s on offer here…

Okay, first things first here: If you are looking for a serious rally simulation then I'm afraid DiRT Showdown is not the game for you. If you're looking for a serious racer in…

The Journey Down started life as an Adventure Game Studio game, a tool that allows users to create traditional point and click games. Now, thanks to indie company SkyGoblin, we…

What’s the first thing you think of when you hear a new co-op-centric title has guns, vehicles with guns attached, guns that heal, mechs with guns, jetpacks and cloaking…

With the recent (and heavily stressful, no doubt) release of Diablo III, it got me to thinking; after all the years people have been waiting for this game, isn’t it a really,…

From the creators of the Cyanide and Happiness web comics and shorts comes a half-hour animated show featuring the twisted humor of a world populated by glorified stick figures.…

Awesomenauts is what is described as a ‘2D action real-time strategy’ game. Simply put, it’s a 2D MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) game, featuring cartoony graphics…

It was during the Blizzcon of 2008 when we first had official word that evil was returning to our PC screens. For some the time has flown by while others have felt that the wait…

There’s something very peculiar about Dragon’s Dogma, something oddly compelling that despite its rough edges and pace problems, players will want to complete one more quest,…

The Mount and Blade series has always enjoyed a hugely loyal fan base and an extensive modding community. It seems appropriate then that Napoleonic Wars, the recent multiplayer…

The Portal 2 Perpetual Testing Initiative is officially underway. This piece of free DLC adds Portal 2 to the small list of games currently supported by the Steam Workshop,…

Let’s be honest: men and women are not equal. They never have been, and they never will be. This is a fact that extends from the real world and is amplified when it comes to…

A while ago, it seemed I was becoming the go-to reviewer for strategy titles; now, on my third tower defense review, it would appear I've started to specialise somewhat.

HD remake collections seem to be pretty popular right now. In recent months, if not weeks, we have seen some of the biggest games of the last console generation be upgraded…

I’ve been saying it for years: what we really need is more police themed driving games based on German TV shows. Well, it seems that publisher RTL Playtainment was listening and…

If you want to showcase what your game is set to offer when it's released later in the year, you throw-out a BETA. It has to be a flavour of what to expect whilst not giving too…

Fall of the Samurai is a stand-alone expansion for Creative Assembly's award winning Total War: Shogun 2. However, its status as an 'expansion' should not suggest that this is…

From small beginnings come great things, as the saying goes. Off the top of my head I would be hard pressed to find a game more suited to that than Terraria. A game that was…

Capcom decided it was time for a small trek off the beaten path with Resident Evil, letting SOCOM developers Slant Six Games loose within the franchise, spawning a squad based…

“Get rid of the map; I can’t see where I’m going!” cries Miss Beanz next to me.