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A weekly rummage in the attic of sci-fi

Demon’s Souls has become known mainly for three things: being exclusive to PS3; being incredibly, crushingly bleak and difficult; and being a surprise hit in spite of the first two. Dark Souls, its spiritual successor (but not outright sequel), is not only expanding its audience to the 360, but its …

Was I the only Need for Speed fan groaning during EA’s E3 press conference once it was revealed that The Run’s racing cache would be… quick time events? So… instead of falling back on the good favor you’ve earned from SHIFT and Hot Pursuit, you’re making this your flagship racing …

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We always thought missiles were the easy way out in most air combat games. Simply snag missile lock, fire and forget. It was always a bit anticlimactic and automatic, if you ask us. Ace Combat: Assault Horizon changes that with a new feature called “Dogfight Mode.” The results are unexpectedly …

You know what chess needs more of? Stabbing. Over the years there have been many video gaming attempts at translating the centuries-old game of chess, but most have been fairly imperfect thanks to the limitations of artificial intelligence (at least, when super computers aren’t involved). Or maybe they just needed …

The moment we sat down to check out the latest preview on Combat Wings: The Great Battles of WWII, the developers hit us with something we didn’t expect – they think that modern flight-simulators are boring. All of them. According to these fellows, piloting an F-22 at two times the …

An interview with the Songs Of The Earth writer

Videogames have given us the power to do things we otherwise couldn’t for decades. Whether it’s time-travel, ninja skills or marksmanship, games allow us to live out our fantasies in a way no other medium can. Namco’s Inversion wants you to dream about what you could do if the laws …

Perfect World Entertainment may be breaking one tradition by producing non-MMO Rusty Hearts, but the company’s mantra of making high quality free-to-play games is still in full effect. In what developer Stairway Games calls “Castle Crashers meets Devil May Cry,” you take control of one of a number of different …