Who says Rory can’t play guitar?
Read More »BLOG Angel & Faith # 1
Will Salmon checks out the first issue of the relaunched Angel comic
Read More »Spurious Awards Of The Week
Doctor Who, Torchwood, Total Recall, X-Men, Doom, Darth Vader and Darth Vapour are all up for awards this week…
Read More »The 3DS analogue slider add-on: Pros, cons, and potential screaming disasters
So that crazy-sounding gaffer-taped solution to the 3DS’ non-problem of a not-actually-missing-because-it-doesn’t-really-need-it second analogue stick actually appears to be real. Real and ugly. Coming in the form of a cradle attachment that the 3DS sits in, it adds a right analogue, a couple of extra triggers, a whole lot of …
Read More »BLOG What Was R2-D2 Really Saying? Part III
More from Steven Ellis’s ongoing translations of R2’s bleeps and whistles
Read More »Starhawk producer gives us a look at slamming down turrets and flying robot jets
Adding tower-defense elements to shooters appears to be a creeping trend these days; so far, we’ve seen it in games like Trenched, Section 8: Prejudice and Gears of War 3’s new Horde 2.0 mode. However, none seem to be embracing the idea quite as fully – or quite as impressively …
Read More »Firefall – updated hands-on preview
By now you probably know all about Firefall’s competitive multiplayer. They’ve been showing it off at every industry event for the past year, and we’ve sung its praises more than once before. What we hadn’t yet seen was the much-touted cooperative, open world segment of the game. This stuff is …
Read More »Classic game appreciation section: Jak II: Renegade
If there is one shade in gaming that is more feared than brown, it’s got to be grey. Whenever a game that started out as a colourful odyssey comes back resembling a moody teen’s bedroom wall, suspicions are alerted. But that needn’t be the case as Jak II proved back …
Read More »50 Best Movie Shoot-Outs
Young Guns (1988) The Shoot-Out: The Young’uns, trapped in a house by Murphy’s (Jack Palance) men, decide to shoot their way out. The Weapons: Period-specific Colts rule the day, with Billy The Kid (Emilio Estevez) favouring the Colt Lightning. Coolest Kill: A suitcase is thrown out of the window, only …
Read More »Call of Duty: James Bond. Sorry, GoldenEye 007: Reloaded hands-on
It’s taken a while, but Activision has finally seen sense and is redoing the original N64 classic, GoldenEye 007. Well, it’s still trying to massage some new things into the mix, but not enough to make it turbo-crap, like say giving the lead character a golden eye that can levitate …
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