Underneath a steely grey sky, cars and blank faced pedestrians shuffled along the dimly lit streets. A dystopian nightmare of complicated traffic procedures lay ahead of me. I had arrived in Guildford.
As a big fan of the original game Syndicate, and the often overlooked Syndicate Wars, I was excited to see what EA had up their sleeves for a brand [...]

Forza is, in my opinion, the best racing game around at the moment. It has everything you need: pace, realism, fantastic cars, brilliant tracks and an online lobby and racing system which is second to none. Sometimes, though, you need an extra something; an element which serves to push you a little beyond your five or six lap comfort zone [...]

Have you ever sat playing Civilization and thought: “This game could use some more magic spells or perhaps a few vampires”? Apparently you are not alone as publishers Paradox Entertainment, the company behind the recent King Arthur II RPG, and developers Ino-Co Plus (who worked with Paradox on Elven Legacy) have been hard at work on Warlock: Master of the [...]

Duncan is away on a reconnaissance mission to Rebellion HQ and has captured some intel in the form of the brand new ‘Sniper Explained’ trailer for Sniper Elite V2, they say this is no ‘run and gun’ shoot ‘em up, so pay attention soldier!
The sequel to Rebellion’s highly-acclaimed 2005 game Sniper Elite, Sniper Elite V2 continues to offer gamers the [...]

Eggs are awesome, aren’t they? You can make so much with them: omelettes, cakes, pancakes, a big mess on the kitchen floor after a particularly nasty entanglement with a beloved family pet. In fact, there are only three ways to improve such an already awesome foodstuff: stick some shoes, some gloves and a big smiley face on the shell.
And that’s exactly [...]

The forces of two bodies on each other are always equal and are directed in opposite directions. A long prophesied law of motion, near undeniable in this age of science, but no more, my friends. The time is coming ever closer when the historic greats of the Street Fighter universe shall go fist-to-fist with the young-blood from the Tekken galaxy. [...]

Well, it’s been quite a weekend. I wasn’t hyped up at all about the PlayStation Vita’s release a week ago, but now that it’s in my hands I have to say – it’s one fine piece of kit.
Pre-orders for the Vita opened in Japan back on the 15th of October. Despite living slap-bang in the middle of Japan, I somehow [...]

We really do have the best hobby, don’t we? This year the games that have graced our consoles, PC’s and phones have been an embarrassment of riches, as they were last year. The games that we have chosen to award our highest accolade, as voted for by the entire staff at Ready Up, are popular choices that few could dispute. [...]

There are two things I am very fond of. One is PC charity game bundles, the other is GamesAid. Both are fantastic concepts that bring a lot of happiness to tons of people. So it is with great pleasure that I announce The LittleBIGbunch, a charity game bundle from GamesAid. The LittleBIGbunch will be released today (14th of Dec) at [...]

This past weekend the made of awesome people over at PSAccess extended an invitation for myself and a friend (thanks again, guys!) to go to a super secret location in central London (at Piccadilly Circus, just down Haymarket, if you hit TigerTiger you’ve gone too far) to play the PS Vita and what was labelled an ‘an array’ of PS [...]

This started out as a review, the review was for a collection of games entitled “Move Mind Benders”. I didn’t have a Move at the time and this provided me with a great excuse to fill this seeming gap in my hardware portfolio. GAME had a second-hand wand in stock and HMV were able to furnish the requisite PS-Eye at [...]

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 is officially awesome and it’s become a mainstay in Team Ready Up’s online gaming sessions, another thing we love at Ready Up is the excellent game guides produced by Brady and their Modern Warfare 3 guide is no exception.

The single player campaign is obviously fully covered from start to finish but that’s not what what Modern Warfare [...]

There is no doubting that Arkham Asylum was a fabulous game and that the recent follow up, Arkham City, was even more special. There is however a chronological gab between the two games, at the end of Arkham Asylum our heroic dark knight has taken out the self appointed Clown Prince of Crime but the battle took it’s toll [...]

A little while ago I was heavily engaged in doing some research for my section of a book which is due out shortly – you’ll get PLENTY of notice when it does, believe me! As part of that research I got in touch with various people around the gaming world to advise them of what I was doing and, in [...]

The Rabbids are back and still quite, quite mad in Rabbids: Alive & Kicking for Xbox 360 with Kinect and we’ve teamed up with Ubisoft to give away three copies of the game to the top three scorers on our webcam-tastic game. Just fire in and log your score, have as many goes as you want but be sure to [...]