Summer’s Almost Over: Games for the Weekend.
Quick, term starts in a week and you’re leaving in four days. Nothing’s packed, you’ve forgotten so many things that you think you may actually be dumber than you were…
Idle Thumbs: The Year in Handhelds
It’s war in the land of handhelds at the moment, and as is traditional in three-way videogame strategy battles, each side is unique: in the news this week, Kaz Hirai…
Forcing the Issue: Star Wars 1313 Preview
Star Wars games are, much like the films, a grab-bag of excellence (Knights of the Old Republic, Jedi Knight, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, LEGO Star Wars, Rogue Squadron, and The…
Illegal Aliens: XCOM: Enemy Unknown Preview
This year has been one of sequels, for all sorts of reasons – major publishers have achieved a coup with the acquisition of rights for, and the management will to…
Crossing the Pandoran frontier: Borderlands 2 Preview
Borderlands was not the original ‘up to 11’ game, but it has a pretty good claim to being the first to hit consoles, the first of the ‘new’ generation, and…
Horror Games, Impossible Architecture, and the Overlook Hotel
The horror genre is something of the red-headed stepchild in games: genre conventions from film and literature are near-intrinsically subverted by the mechanical conventions of games. Our agency in games…
A Very Short Introduction to Gamescom
Gamescom is Europe’s answer to E3: in fact, it arose partly as a result of the ‘dialled back’ E3 in 2008 and 2009. Three years on, it’s the largest “games…
Gamescom: failures and vapourware
High priest of nerdom John Glanville brings you the inside track on the future of gaming from this year’s Gamescom convention in Cologne. The biggest Gamescom story so far is, funnily…
