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Our Week in Games – Week 39
Apologies for the absence of Our Week in Games last week, this was due to some back-end work being carried out by our web designer in the process of sorting out the hack I spoke about the other week. We have seen some big announcements this past week, Gran Turismo 6 and Metal Gear coming to the PC amongst them. Something is happening this week with the Xbox, there haven’t been any rumours whatsoever and no hints so I can’t guess what is happening. Oh yeah, the new Xbox. You excited?
Read More »Machinima Spotlight – Clear Skies
I'm not a fan of machinima - what little I have seen has a tendency to consist of crude jokes and internet memes filmed in the medium of Half-Life and Halo. But this week, however, someone brought my attention to something that completely changed my outlook on what combining filming and gaming can do.
Read More »Boon Hill – A Graveyard Simulator
A game which you can't win, and one that you can't actually lose. One that is set in a graveyard, it sounds all kinds of crazy right? Crazy it might be, but Boon Hill as it is known has reached its' Kickstarter goal and so will most certainly be getting a release. It sounds quirky, but very interesting as you walk around the graveyard reading the messages left of tombstones and talking to the passing NPCs.
Read More »A Little Interview About Don’t Starve
It is pretty safe to say that I have quite enjoyed Don't Starve, the survival game which I've really been getting my teeth into. Hell, I even a little video about. I decided to find someone to talk to at developer's Klei Entertainment. I was able to pose ten questions to one of the team at Klei, Kevin Forbes. Hit the jump to find out what Kevin makes of comparisons with Minecraft and Terraria and the forthcoming Caves update for Don't Starve.
Read More »New Video Game Releases – June Schedule
Welcome to The Reticule’s definitive roundup of gaming releases throughout June 2013. All release dates stated are for the EU, across all currently available platforms. Keep this page bookmarked for easy access, as we will link all previews and reviews when we post them on the site.
Read More »Shootmania Storm – The Verdict
Shootmania Storm is an epiphany. It’s like someone took the modern expectations of what a multiplayer FPS should be, turned it upside down and shook it until all the bells, whistles and nonsense clattered onto the floor. What was left was sparse, light and clean. No iron-sights, no customisable classes, no massive production values… what on earth was left? An epiphany. As I said.
Read More »The Brothers Rapture, A Fan-Made Bioshock Short Film
The Brothers Rapture is a fan-made short film set in a world stemming from the original Bioshock game. Filmed on a tight budget and with little time to spare, the producers have created their own story following two artists who have come to rapture to start a new life.
Read More »The Night of the Rabbit Available For Pre-Order, Get Deponia Free
Daedalic Entertainment's latest PC adventure outing, The Night of the Rabbit is now available for pre-order from GOG.com. Due for release on May 29th, The Night of the Rabbit is a point and click that follows Jerry and his dreams of being a magician, luckily for some dreams can sometimes come true.
Read More »Mod Spotlight – All of them
Every few weeks I'll come across a mod that sparks my interest. Whether it's for a game I'm currently playing or something I haven't booted up in several years, it doesn't matter - within minutes of stumbling across something fascinating, I'll have downloaded it and be playing the game with as much excitement as the day I first bought it.
Read More »Eador: Master’s of the Broken World – Early Impressions
I've been squeezing in some time for a grand looking turn-based with RPG-features strategy game. Not a Heroes of Might and Magic game, but Eador: Master's of the Broken World. I'll simply refer to it as Eador from now on while I talk about some of my early impressions of this title which came from Steam Greenlight.
Read More »Why We’re Quiet
Apologies for the lack of content this week lovely readers. We are currently in the process of attempting to isolate some malicious code which has been inserted onto the site through nefarious means. In conjunction with our hosts and web developer we hope to have solved the issue by the end of the weekend so we can return to our regularly scheduled programming.
You can look forward to words on Mars: War Logs and Shootmania and possibly some more videos on our YouTube channel. Thank you for your patience.
Our Week in Games – Week 38
I’ve been doing some behind the scenes work over the past couple of days, and it struck me that The Reticule has been around in some form for four and half years. You can find a heap of very old stuff here. Don’t get too bogged down in the site layout, it is simply one of the early prototypes we used, but you might find some nuggets of interesting pieces in there. I would also like to thank everyone who wrote for the site back then, and everyone currently writing for the site. We will never mix it with the big boys of websites, but we enjoy what we do, and I certainly hope you all do too. With that though, on with Our Week in Games.
Read More »Don’t Starve – The Verdict
This isn't Minecraft or Terraria, but it follows in a similar vein with no real hints or tips and an entire sense of 'how the hell do I survive in this game?'. I'm really enjoying this game, and while I might not have fallen in love with it like I have with other indie games over the past few years, I do seem to keep going back for just one more go.
Read More »Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army – The Verdict
Get a piece of paper and a die - Go on, I'll wait. Ready? Now write down six of the most generic words you can think of and number them one to six. Now roll the die and write down the word that corresponds to that number. Do it about five or six times. Stick a colon in there somewhere, or a hyphen, both if you're feeling adventurous. Now look at the result. It's a better name for a game than Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army, isn't it? Yes, I thought so.
Read More »Don’t Starve – First Thoughts
I survived 13 days, then I was killed by a bee. I was resurrected and returned to collect my gear…and I was killed by the same damn bee. The game at hand is Don’t Starve, and these are some of my first thoughts of the game.
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