The original UFO: Enemy Unknown (a.k.a. X-Com: UFO Defence overseas) was released in 1994 by Microprose for PC and is fondly remembered by many not just because it remains a high watermark in strategy game design but also because I spend most of my weekends banging a large drum and giving out leaflets on how awesome it is.
If you’ve never [...]

Since Capcom have just announced the impending arrival of Resident Evil 6 later this year with the help of a pretty damn cool trailer, I thought it was high time I took the chance to play some of the older games in the series. Of course, I say “some of the older games in the series” but I really just [...]

Regardless of how much gaming experience you have we’ve all done it. You know, that deafening silence which descends just as your level of concentration, or possible frustration hits an all time high. You become one with your control pad as it you have reached calming Zen with you and the task at hand. If anyone was to talk to [...]

Christmas time is always a joyous time for PC gamers. During the festive season, the good people at Valve go bonkers and drastically reduce the price of selected games as part of the Christmas Sale.
And don’t go thinking that it’s only mediocre games getting a price slash. Last year, quality titles including, but not limited to, Skyrim, Dead Island, Assassin’s [...]

In this, his first musing blog, Martin muses about an impending time in his life that may affect his gaming habits forever. What could bring about such a change and will he hit a “game over” or just “press A to continue”? You may not be aware of it but it is something that will, eventually, affect [...]

I’ve recently been thinking about the difficulty of some games. This is because I saw “Bayonetta,” for £4.99 in PC World when I went home for Christmas. Awesome! I’ll pretty much buy any Xbox bargain I can find!
As per usual, I got home, got changed into my jammies, sat in front of my TV, popped in the game and played. [...]

The 81st Comic Market, better known as “Comiket,” was held at Tokyo Big Sight on the artificial island of Odaiba during the last few days of 2011. It’s a spectacularly huge gathering of individuals interested in selling their own original and / or fan works. The event is held twice a year and known to accommodate over half a million [...]

As I was walking through the airport the other day on my way to the ’states to kick off a project there, I caught myself thinking that my confidence and comfort at the various processes involved were not born out of some innate measure of inner peace – anyone who knows me knows that that certainly isn’t true. No, my smooth [...]

I was excited when I had to create an Xbox 360 gamertag. A new identity online. A chance to be someone different and unique. I had to have an unusual name. My first was “Sambuca Queen”, very random. It was a nickname given to me by an ex and some friends. But after four years of having that tag, I [...]

“Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.” – Terry Pratchett
Wise, wise words from Mr Pratchett there, and there’s no fantasy addict bigger than moi. With less than two weeks to go till Final Fantasy XIII-2 my excitement [...]

Over the last few months I’ve been moving away from buying all the so called triple ‘A’ titles and started looking into other markets such as the indie bundles as I discussed in We Are Missing a Trick with Indie Titles. I was also dragged into the 21st century with an iPod Touch at Christmas and needless to say, it’s [...]

No game has offered me a more rewarding multiplayer team-orientated experience than Battlefield 3. Considering the number of games that I’ve played online over my seven years of Xbox Live, that’s a terrific accolade.
So you can probably see why I didn’t understand why a few people on my friends list weren’t impressed with it – I was thoroughly confused. Then [...]

Someone famous once said, “parting is such sweet sorrow”. I think it was Claire Danes in that movie where they all had guns, but kept referring to the guns as swords, even though they were clearly guns.
I’m guessing Dicaprio made the error first, and that the other cast members played along out of charity. If George Lucas had directed that [...]

Back in 2000 I was finishing my A Levels, working in Virgin Megastores, and savouring the flavours of Radiohead’s album, Kid A. I did a lot of things back then, but playing PC games wasn’t really one of them. So I was completely ignorant to the work of genius that was released by IO Interactive that year: Hitman: Codename 47.
To this day, [...]

There’s a shiny copy of Skyward Sword sitting near my TV. I started Ocarina of Time on the 3DS, but have only just finished meeting Zelda for the first time. Meanwhile, Deus Ex is on hold after my Jensen got stuck in a vent somewhere and Assassin’s Creed Revelations is gathering dust, although not as much dust as Assassin’s Creed [...]