Tag: games

  • Why Games Aren’t Art (and nothing is ((except Art)))

    Thom sets some boundaries and discusses games-as-art.

  • Answer Me This: Why Was 2013 a Terrible Year for Videogames? Part One

    2013 was an awful year for videogames, but why so? Michael explains why, in his eyes, it was a dire 12 months.

  • Far Cry series on sale for Gold members on Xbox Live

    The Far Cry series is discounted on the Xbox Live Marketplace right now by up to 75% depending on the title. You too can experience the emotional impact of having to execute your best friend in Far Cry 2 after they’ve driven out of the forest to save your life. It’s fine though, you get…

  • Harrison claims Xbox One will gain in power over time thanks to the Cloud

    In an interview with MCV Mr. Phil Harrison spoke about the power of the Cloud and how it can bring new features and abilities to the Xbox One as time goes on. Not only that but it can supposedly help improve the console’s performance as the tech improves, essentially outsourcing some of the work the CPU…

  • 180 games currently in development for Playstation 4

    This week, Sony has revealed a lot of Playstation 4 related info at Gamescom, not only did they announce that the console will be released on 29th November in Europe, but they have also shared a list of 33 games (retail and downloadable titles) that will be available before 2014. The impressive launch lineup isn’t all…

  • Grand Theft Auto Online to be revealed this Thursday.

                Rockstar Games have announced that a gameplay video and first information on the multiplayer mode for their upcoming game Grand Theft Auto V will be released on Thursday 15th August. The announcement comes along with a teaser image (see below). The existence of the multiplayer component of the game…

  • Tales of Xillia 2 Western launch confirmed

    Playstation 3 exclusive RPG Tales of Xillia doesn’t launch in the West until next month, but this hasn’t stopped Namco Bandai from confirming that its sequel, Tales of Xillia 2, will launch in Western countries in 2014. This announcement was made during the Japan Expo in Paris, “We are extremely happy to bring another piece…

  • Deus Ex: The Fall launches this week

    Square Enix has announced that Deus Ex:The Fall will be available for download on 11th July, just a little over a month after its announcement trailer was released by Eidos Montréal. This story driven action-RPG is set in 2027, the same year as Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s story, in fact, both stories run parallel to each other.…

  • Xbox One – The Overview

    After what we can assume has been months of planning – and following a similar announcement from Sony – Microsoft have finally unveiled their next generation games console during an hour-long press conference, held last night : the Xbox One. Not to be confused with the original Xbox, released way back in 2001, the name…

  • The Game Mechanic – Mechanically Perfect

    There was a time when the video games we loved rested their fates on pulling off a small list of mechanics, sometimes even single mechanics…