One evening this winter, a piano-playing friend of mine invited me along to a concert and ‘artistic installation’ he was involved in, held inside a quaint little medieval church in Hove. The place was lit with candlelight, with fake trees positioned to cast flickering shadows about this strange village church in a busy city. Handed a little plastic cup of mulled wine, I sat listening to my pianist friend, debating with another friend whether ‘this was it’.
Trials Second Edition on the PC was one my favourite titles when it was released, and it was an idea that was immensely improved with the Xbox Live Arcade release of Trials HD.. Soon, another slice of biking action will be coming with Trials Evolution. To find out more, I hunted down RedLynx’s Jani Karttunen, Game Designer on Trials Evolution and picked his brain about the upcoming title. Find out what he has to say after the jump.
Mass Effect is on the horizon again and what better way to get worked up about saving the galaxy and making planet sized decisions with your favourite commander than to dig into the Mass Effect 3 demo. The single player section of the demo is in two parts and may be short and sweet but there is a lot to talk about and even more to get excited about.
I wasn’t expecting much from the demo for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, to be honest I had all but forgotten about the game since I saw the first trailer during E3 last year. My first impressions, were not quite the best. For the demo I had to sign in to my EA account and accept a Terms of Service notice, and during the demo I couldn’t even save. That is without talking about the lack of feeling to the PC…
Don’t let the dashing, hooded Italian on Soul Calibur V‘s boxart fool you. Namco and their rivals aren’t in the business of trying to squeeze a big release out every single year. They understand the value of leaving land fallow. It has been nearly three years since the last Tekken, dead on three years since we entered the fourth Street Fighter era. And Soul Calibur IV? Nearly four years old. The Soul series’ sixth instalment arrives this week, and it’s…
My MMA knowledge is limited to an occasional work out on UFC: Personal Trainer and what I hear my workmates talk about. Despite my limited understanding of this sport, I decided to check out the demo for the upcoming UFC: Undisputed 3, the third title in the series from THQ.
I must admit, Just Cause 2 failed to hold my attention. Despite the beautiful vistas, the open-world gameplay and the varied missions, I quickly tired of the poor driving mechanics, the rather pre-school approach to physics, and the predictable AI of my opponents. It was with a sigh that I finally returned the game to the digital shelf of Steam and moved on to pastures new. To return to the tropical paradise of Panau, I thought, it would take something…
Well, something had to be left off the list: there were simply too many games. From August onwards we were buried under a huge pile of games that were not just hugely exciting, but typically expansive and demanding in review terms. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception was as exciting a prospect as the rest, but it slipped through the net anyway. But then, in this generation of scant exclusives, Uncharted is the single well established bragging point for Playstation owners: the…
Do you like shooting men? Then do I have the game for you.
Yesterday I published the first part of my interview with Andy Tudor, Creative Director at Slightly Mad Studios about the new World of Mass Development project being worked on by the studio. In this final part of the interview, I talk to Andy about Project CARS, the racer at the heart of World of Mass Development.