Video Games

Games of the pixel sort. reviews, news and impressions

Oct 222011
 
Gears of War 3 (xbox360)

Last weekend during the Extra Life charity gaming marathon one of the events we did was to play Gears of War 3 co-op campaign on hard-core setting straight through all in one sitting. That took three of us 12 hours and also gave me a very good look at the new Gears. My initial reaction […]

Sep 172011
 
Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Humanity has become increasingly dependent upon technology. We have externalised vast amounts of our collective memory in print while our personal moments are committed to public databases and web connected devices. We augment our experience of the world through various devices every day. Already we can see the effects of Technopoly on our culture as […]

Sep 072011
 
Space Marine demo PS3: Inquisitor level complete

The rather special Collector’s Edition of Space Marine, including soundtrack cd, art book, cards & purity seal… Ah, pay day is only 22 days away now…   Editor’s progress: Well, I’ve managed to complete one of the levels on the downloaded demo; the Inquisitor level. This level sees your Space Marines planet-side on the invaded […]

Sep 032011
 

Part two of Geekzine UK’s Q & A with the Sarcastic Gamer UK podcast crew is Yamster, otherwise known as Jon Brady by day. (Part one with Captain Average is here) Now if you’re a gamer like myself and my geeky pals here at Geekzine UK, then you should have heard of the U.S based […]

Sep 022011
 
Game Dev Story

Amongst the games I’m playing at the moment is this little gem on the iPhone Game Dev Story from Kairosoft. Set in a fictional world, GDS doffs it hat, and also pokes a wee bit of fun, to the real world games industry ( for eg. I’m currently developing games for the ‘PlayStatus 2’ ) […]