![]() | Stumped – Stop! Puzzle Time Sarah-Lou Costley - April 23rd 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 [...] |
![]() | Gamer-at-Arms – Jumad, bro? Mark Paterson - April 22nd 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. |
![]() | Incoming – Mayday! May Day! Scott Cameron - April 21st Welcome back to our feature where we aim to highlight the new releases that that our readers might be interested in! |
![]() | Personnel Files – Kirsten Laura Rich - April 20th |
![]() | The Silent Protagonist – Tales of Graces F Ben Sykes - April 19th 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. |
![]() | Martin’s Musing – How Broad is your Band? Martin Robertson - April 18th 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 [...] |
![]() | Pipe Dreams – The Thing Duncan Aird - April 17th 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 [...] |
![]() | InGame – The Mass Effect John Brown - April 16th 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. |
![]() | Broken Frandroid – Nightmare in Dreamland Fran Shergold - April 15th The Broken Frandroid – A lot like the Borg queen, |
![]() | Numerology – 0.5 pence Anthony Pounds-Cornish - April 14th 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 [...] |
![]() | Looking For Party – New Spaces, New Faces Carly Browne - April 13th 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. |
![]() | The Game Mechanic – Gaming in Motion Johnny Grier - April 12th 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). |
![]() | Left 4 Dead: The Mercy Diaries – The Streets Part 2 Loz Masters - April 11th The Streets Part 2 |
![]() | Pixelhunter – Presenting Daedalic Entertainment Dean Bowman - April 10th 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 [...] |
![]() | Lost in Translation? – Street Fighter Giles Armstrong - April 9th 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. |