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Category: 2009

  • Blue Toad Murder Files: The Mysteries of Little Riddle – Episodes 1 and 2

    The Christmas season is a good time for murder. While many of us have murderous thoughts around the dinner table, you’ll find the TV schedules dish up a brutal death or two for our enjoyment. But what about the gamers? Where can we get our fill of murder and mayhem? Fire up the PS3, hop…

  • If I Could Escape

    If I could escape I would but, first of all, let me say, How could you let them kidnap me again and on my birthday. OK my cake was all pretty but did look a quite odd, How did you not see those Koopalings on top, Maybe you should go back to your regular plumbing…

  • Arachnadoodle

    Web-slinging is no longer the exclusive domain of your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. In fact, Peter Parker himself could do worse than heading to the App Store and downloading himself a copy of Arachnadoodle. Taking the role of an incredibly cute spider named Boris, it’s your job to fashion a web in which to catch flies.…

  • Level Up!

    ..I play the same game over and over again. Final Fantasy X-2 is a game I turned my nose up at the instant my beloved, delicate, quiet, innocent Yuna took to a stage in a miniskirt and started singing and dancing. I hate the whole “Y, R, P! Girl power!” notion. There’s absolutely nothing wrong…

  • Qix++

      Qix goes back a long way. A classic arcade game, it has quite a following. XBLA have bought us a revamped version called Qix++, and I thought it would be interesting to see what has been done with it.    In the first five minutes of this game, it seems quite fun and quirky. The music may not seem quite so…

  • Glitch Politics

    Since online gaming has existed there have been those willing to use cheats, codes and hacks to manipulate the gamespace to their advantage. Types of cheating can vary, ranging from the Fifa 10 leaderboard scam, with players suddenly appearing in the top 100 after gathering 20,000 skill-points overnight, to traditional approaches like griefing and invulnerability…

  • The not-at-all Secret Diary of Jake (aged 32½)

    I recently took the time to look at how many unfinished games, across all the platforms, I possess. Like the Count from Sesame Street, I dutifully counted. By the 731st “mwah-ha-ha” I realised I had quite a few, so I set myself a challenge to finish as many as I could within a month, and…

  • Cleaning Up The City: Crackdown 2

    The original Crackdown was something of a sleeper hit with gamers. Sure, tens of thousands picked up the title on its first day of release, but that probably had more to do with the included Halo 3 beta key than any genuine affection for the game concept. Although many copies were destined to end up…

  • Girl on Girls

    I love Bayonetta. I think she is the sexiest videogame character I have ever seen and I can’t wait until January 8th, which makes me a complete hypocrite because I hate almost every other female character ever created. Some argue that women don’t find female characters appealing because they can’t relate to them. Most have…

  • Save The Best For Last

    Never has a Vanessa Williams song been so true. The best has most certainly been saved for last as we count down not only to the end of another year, but also to another jam packed Christmas! And what has gaming Santa brought for us lucky boys and girls this time? So far we’ve got…