Welcome to Stumped, your numero uno place to get all your puzzle game news and opinions. Here I’ll be talking about one of my favourite parts of gaming: puzzles. Now everyone has probably played some form of puzzle game in a variety of capacities so hopefully you will be able to appreciate my mini obsession. In Stumped I’ll be looking [...]

A wee while ago that I wrote a blog about why Battle Royale was an awesome film and how it deserved to be a video game too. I’m writing now to tell you that if you’re working feverishly on a Battle Royale video game tie-in, stop what you’re doing right now.
I mean it. Stop working because I’ve just thought of [...]

Welcome back to our feature where we aim to highlight the new releases that that our readers might be interested in!
But before we do that, some surprise downloadable releases mean that we’ve got a couple of missed titles that deserve a mention. Earlier in the month, we finally saw the long-awaited indie platformer Fez appear on Xbox Live Arcade, while [...]


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Name: Kirsten Kearney
Age: 36
Current Location: Glasgow, Scotland.
First gaming memory: Playing Pong on Christmas day in the living room, sitting on the floor. I remember the teak effect on the console and the little controllers and the rounded glassy front of the television, which was probably tiny. I must have been about eight. This means I’m not quite [...]

So, if you’ve read any of my previous blogs, you’ll already know I love pretty much any and every Namco Bandai game that comes out, especially if it’s an RPG. If you can remember my first blog way back in November 2011, you’ll know that my favourite game is “Tales of Symphonia” for the Gamecube, made by Namco Bandai.
Regardless, “Tales of [...]

This time around, Martin looks at what may be ahead for the future of our beloved consoles.  Is it possible that there may be a decision made that will render the next generation unplayable to a huge percentage of gamers?  Surely, all of the big companies will do enough research to ensure that more people will be buying consoles, rather [...]

The term ‘classic’ is thrown around all too often these days. Not that I want to become that old man shaking his walking stick at the latest sensations at the age of 23, but in my eyes something must hold up for at least two decades before it truly earns its wings and the title of ‘classic’. There are some [...]

In this episode, John talks about the Galactic Readiness rating and what options there are available to help with this including Mass Effect: Infiltrator and Datapad.
He also goes has a mild ramble over Mass Effect DLC and how he feels about game additions generally. By the way, in the end, green was the only choice.

The Broken Frandroid – A lot like the Borg queen,
She assimilates game characters but not human beings.
She loves leather and rubber but also bright pink,
But that’s probably a lie; what do you think?
It seems even pink things have a terrible fate,
Due to the Broken Frandroid’s charm and hate.

On Monday, March 12th The Game Group plc announced they were still in discussion with their suppliers and lenders about their terms of trade that would allow the business to continue to operate. At one point on that day, if you were trading on the London Stock Exchange, you could have purchased an individual share in the company for half [...]

On March 27th Square Enix made a complete overhaul of the game system on Final Fantasy XIV and started to merge gaming servers. This was to bring together the quieter servers and pull them into the heavier populated ones with the purpose of enhancing the gaming experience for the players.
So my Lindblum took on Saronia and became Sargatanas. Nothing major [...]

Love it or hate it, motion gaming is quite clearly here to stay.  Is this a bad thing?  The short answer is, “no”.  The long answer is the rest of this article so PLEASE keep reading (for the sake of my self-esteem).
In recent years motion gaming has made a pretty huge comeback since Nintendo struck gold with the Nintendo Wii. [...]

The Streets Part 2
After descending the final staircase, we came back out to the ground floor. I felt every hair on my body stand up in anticipation of another attack. Surely the infected couldn’t have gone far? The fear must have been written all over my face as Bill turned round to talk tactics.
” Louis, these streets are near your [...]

Once upon a time, deep in the nostalgic past of the point and click adventure, there existed many great studios including Sierra, Revolution and Lucas Arts. However, since Lucas Arts abandoned the genre in favour of endless iterations of their Star Wars licence, drawing a curtain on the golden age of the genre, most point and clicks seem to have [...]

Welcome to Lost in Translation? – the Ready Up series where we look at the rocky two-way road of media adapted from video games and games based on films and TV shows, in a bid to decide whether the juice was worth the squeeze, or if what made the source material great in the first place got lost in translation.
For [...]