I’m a sucker when it comes to hardware revisions. Blame it on my early Amiga and PC days – when all my young mind desired was more Chip RAM or a 3DFX VooDoo 2 card – but it’s become something of a problem recently. With no clear living-room space for a kickin’ A/V setup, I’m [...]

Modern games are set in modern places. Cities, in a lot of cases. Liberty City, Pacific City and Empire City all spring to mind.
Games also have people. There are the good guys, the bad guys and the we-don’t-know-yet guys who might turn out to be good guys or bad guys, later on.
But games, like cities, [...]

I play a lot of games. You probably play a lot of games too. They’re awesome, ain’t they? Now more so than ever; they just keep getting better. They keep surprising us, making us think, challenging us and sometimes shocking us. We never know what good devs are gonna come up with next. What surprises [...]

It can’t be up to much, dating as a video game protagonist. You are always involved in some sort of all absorbing story, dominating your time, taking over your life and then even when you finally manage to sort out what the problem/drama/threat is, you are most likely chucked back into it again a year [...]