‘R-Type Dimensions’ Review

Your knuckles are bloodied and bruised, there’s broken glass littering the floor; people are screaming, including yourself. Is this the scene of an unfortunate bar fight? No, I‘m afraid not. Because those knuckles are in agonising pain from where you punched the wall in furious anger; and the broken glass covering your room is actually from your expensive HDTV... Read More »

‘Fallout 3: Operation...

Fallout 3 was one of the best games of 2008. Even after eighty hours of play it’s a difficult task to find everything there is to do in the Capital Wasteland, so it’s nice to see Bethesda are working on downloadable content to extend the playtime even further. Operation: Anchorage is the first of three packs of DLC being released... Read More »

‘Dead Space’ Review

EA has decided to buck the trend this year; a company so used to spewing out sequels is now concentrating on starting new franchises, and EA Redwood Shores latest, Dead Space, has all the ingredients to become another big hit. With an animated comic book and animated movie already released, the markers have been firmly set; now it’s time for... Read More »

‘Watchmen: The End Is Nigh’...

RORSHACH’S JOURNAL. MARCH 14TH, 2009 Played a game today. Watchmen, they call it. Tie-in for a film, twenty years in the making. Originally a book. I wouldn’t know, no time to read about such gratuitous life/death struggles. Opinion is mixed though. Some say game should not be made, source material does not suit it. Hard to tell, difficult to... Read More »

Caprica review: Season 1, Episode 2,...

After the tremendous pilot introduced us to the world of Caprica, one could say that the bar was set unreasonably high. Read More »

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Review

The Star Wars universe is one of the most expansive in modern fiction and allows for the creation of games that explore the initial success of the films. The lucrative franchise has given birth to some of the most impressive games but also shows how such a popular entity can be misrepresented and misconstrued. From its initial announcement, The... Read More »