This year’s reboot of the popular AVP series is one we have been following for some time. After all, when three campaigns are promised it’s likely to pique your interest, particularly when the FPS genre has been saturated with cookie cutter clones. Thankfully Rebellion – the development team behind the original games as well as this latest iteration – has succeeded in making each species play distinctively, in turn awarding gamers a unique experience with each campaign. The game has an online component that strives to set itself apart from the competition via these diverging play styles but will it be enough to bring the franchise snarling into the modern era and appease the fans left disillusioned over the lacklustre films? Read the full story »

Crime lords and gang leaders take note – if you are planning on murdering any old men or kidnapping anyone’s sister, make sure that there aren’t two brothers (highly skilled in the martial arts) who will hunt you down and kick your butt. This is a mistake that has been made repeatedly through videogame history, and that has been repeated again here in Wanako Game’s Revenge of the Wounded Dragons Read the full story »

By now videogamers will be well versed not just in the mechanics of guitar-based music games, but the entire critical discourse that surrounds them. It’s almost as though this review doesn’t need to exist; here’s the introduction, there’ll be the odd paragraph on how this is just glorified DLC dressed up as a standalone disc, and a little bit on the odd changes that may have been made since Band Hero and Guitar Hero 5 were released just six months ago. Read the full story »

A great movie will often leave you with as many questions as answers, encouraging introspection and debate long after the credits have finished rolling; but what of videogames? As a medium are videogames capable of stirring the emotions in the same way as celluloid? Well, reaching the end credits of Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain will in all likelihood leave you slightly dazed, as its one of the most unique experiences to hit consoles in quite some time. Read the full story »

Introversion’s Darwinia, a love letter to the sights and sounds of the early days of gaming, has been a firm favourite since its release in 2005. It’s a game that refuses being pigeonholed into one specific genre, instead fusing together elements of many classic games to create something that, even today, feels ostensibly original. Read the full story »