Perhaps the reason for Brutal Legend’s numerous disappointments lay at the feet of a studio and designer whose stellar reputation seems to have backed them into a corner, where creating anything less than remarkable is a blasphemy.  Tim Schafer is after all responsible for the magnificent Grim Fandango and, along with his development studio Double [...]

With X-Com: Enforcer, developer Microprose decided to break from the X-com’s series traditional uber strategic micro-managing formula and opted to shall we say dramatically simplify things.

You arrive in a somber town, lured by the promises of power held in the town’s ember, rumors of the growing darkness, or possibly both. Off in the distance, you see two people struggling to hold off a group of foul creatures.

How do you follow up one of the biggest, best selling and critically acclaimed games of all time?

With the release of Gran Turismo 5 being constantly postponed, and supposedly realistic racers like the motion sickness inducing Need For Speed: Shift populating the market, there is only one viable current title in this genre, Forza.
Following from developer Turn 10’s hugely successful Forza Motorsport 2, the third instalment in the series brings new tracks, [...]

Mirror’s Edge is an acquired taste.

Intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran is once again called into action on the surface of the dreaded planet SR388, to assist Biologic Space Labs in collecting specimens to take back to the main lab orbiting the planet. During the mission however, Samus is attacked by an incredibly dangerous life form, the organism that would come to [...]

Think of it as the summer action blockbuster of games. Gamers like freedom. Nobody enjoys a game that constricts you to a limited area, and doesn’t allow you to tamper or mess with anything in the vicinity; and the more space open to explore and the more things available for you to do, the happier [...]