Beyond Good and Evil

Some games have been sitting in my backlog for a very, very long time. Either because I got stuck, got bored or simply stopped playing as something new and shiny came along. Over the years I’ve got stressed and stuck as a young buck, before I started to have disposable income and then bought way […]

Steam Reviews: Fantastic comedy

Steam has slowly been evolving over the years since its release. When it first launched it was simply a program by which you could launch Half Life 2 and Counter Strike. It didn’t have a working friends list, it didn’t have an effective store page and was slow and buggy. In fact, if not for […]

Final Fantasy XII: What could have been

The Final Fantasy series is oddly numbered. We are up, now, to the fourteenth entry with the fifteenth due out this year. That doesn’t, of course, count the enormous number of spin offs and remakes that the series has garnered over the decades. Final Fantasy X, for example, has been remastered and rereleased for Vita, […]

Dungeon Defenders: Tower Defense for the modern age

Way back at the dawn of the Warcraft 3 modding scene a new game mode arose. No not DOTA, I’m talking about the other one. In this mode you constructed various types of towers to defend against oncoming waves of increasingly difficult enemies. It was this mode, commonly referred to as Tower Defense, that would […]

Prop Hunt: Games for kids

I am going to say a few things to you now; stuck in the mud, British Bulldog and hide and seek. Crucial games, key to the development of many childhoods all over the world. Leaders are born, those able to take command of situations and drive their teams to success via charisma and strength of […]

The Walking Dead: The rising phenomenon

The zombie phenomenon is nothing new; in fact the last decade has seen the undead shuffle into our collective consciousness faster than their mouldy, rotting legs should be able to carry them. TV shows, films, books and games have all become obsessed with the undead. The biggest franchise in the zombie universe, certainly of the […]

Alpha Protocol: Cult classic or hot garbage?

A game that flew under many people’s radar was the excellent Alpha Protocol from Obsidian Entertainment – released on the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. Away from the usual RPG tropes of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Alpha Protocol is set firmly in the modern day – allowing players to take part in their own James […]

Twin Peaks Blu Ray and DVD

Twenty five years ago David Lynch and Mark Frost released the greatest television series ever conceived. Twin Peaks. The simple story of a young prom queen, Laura Palmer, brutally murdered and leaving behind the distraught town of Twin Peaks, and viewers with it. The show then introduced Kyle MacLachlan in his first major role; the […]