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Category: 2012

  • Pixelhunter – Gabriel Knight

    Get anyone over a certain age started on Point and Click Adventures and they are sure to wax lyrical about one of two series: Monkey Island and Broken Sword. These two undeniable classics have both spawned several sequels, and whilst latter entries floundered due to an ill advised attempt to cross over into 3D presentation,…

  • Paper Mario: Sticker Star

    It’s about time there was a new Paper Mario game! This is the first one on a handheld, and fans will be pleased to know that it retains the cartoonish art style and the quirky sense of humour of the rest of the games. So it should. It wouldn’t be Paper Mario without it. The…

  • Pipe Dreams – Theme Hospital 2

    I like that strategy games are back on the rise. Starcraft II is doing incredibly well in the eSports scene – with Heart of the Swarm’s release on the horizon, Prison Architect has been getting some much deserved praise following a terrific Eurogamer showing, and Civilisation V is still getting plenty of support – hardcore…

  • DmC – Devil May Cry

    There has been a good deal of concern over the new direction Capcom’s reboot of Devil May Cry has taken but with the mighty Ninja Theory at the helm I’ve found it hard to worry too much. The short hands on I got at GamesCom earlier in the year left me aching to play more…

  • Alice in Gamerland – Life could be ‘better with Kinect’ in so many ways

    For many of us the Kinect is just a peripheral attached to the Xbox that allows us to do a number of things. For some it’s dancing around the living room or swatting away bad guys with an invisible weapon. Others however just seem to use it to shout commands at the Xbox, rather than…

  • Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch

    In 2011 Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch was released in Japan for the Playstation 3 and now it is officially on the horizon for the rest of the world. Ready Up recently spent three hours playing the start of the game so we can tell you all about it. Ni No Kuni…

  • Stumped – Taster Games

    And hello again my puzzle playing minions. It is I, Sarah-Lou, with another fun-filled guide to what’s hot and what’s not in the world of puzzle-tastic treats. These little beauties can be played on your iPhone/iPad, Android and PC. One Touch Drawing – iOS & Android Have you ever tried to draw a shape without…

  • Punch Quest

    Punch Quest is a real favorite here at Ready Up including our Juniors team, so here we have our first Juniors iOS video review by Rhys. We think he really captures the essence of the game. Head over to punchquest.com for more details on the game. Punch Quest is an arcade-style fighting game about pummeling hordes of enemies.…

  • Stealth Bastard Deluxe

    Stealth Bastard is a game that makes me very sad, and not because I am factually a bastard.  I should be jumping for joy at the thought of a side-scrolling stealth ’em up, especially one so piss-takingly punishing, but I just can’t shake the feeling that I’m enjoying it a lot less than I ought…

  • Lost in Translation? – Super Mario Bros.

    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…