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 [...]

17 years ago the heroic knight Siegfried vanquished Nightmare, destroying the twin swords of good and evil in the process but the divine sword Soul Calibur has been reformed and is seeking a new master, a dark tiding that the cursed blade, Soul Edge, has returned as well. The story of SoulCalibur V revolves around Patroklos and Pyrrha, children of [...]

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 [...]