I’ve never liked the word ‘gratuitous’. It’s one of those words that is impossible to say in anything other than a Mary Whitehouse tone. It’s one of the elite cadre of words that has a reputation, and ‘gratuitous’ has a reputation for bad.
Yet here it is, in full, capitalised glory, amongst the title [...]

Solium Infernum is a new turn based strategy game from Vic Davis of Cryptic Comet, the brain behind the excellent Armageddon Empires. When I say new, I mean it in the sense that, trust me, you haven’t played a strategy game quite like this before.
Satan has vanished leaving the throne to Hell empty. It is [...]

Lets get down to the dirty stuff right away, DiRT 2 is one of the best racing games I have ever played, it is a game which successfully mixes together traditional European style rallying with the glitz and glamour version which is coming out of the US.

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It is competition time once again here on The Reticule and this time you can win not just one, but two games! It is all part of the efforts of Wolfire and Unknown Worlds, (the developers behind Overgrowth and Natural Selection 2) who have launched a special deal where you can get both games for [...]

First thing’s first: you’re not a Zombie, you’re a driver. There are Zombies though. Millions and millions of them out there on the open roads just waiting to be steamrolled into oblivion. On the outset this could prove to be a nice slice of budget hyperviolence. Zombies? Cars? Zombies being run over by cars? What’s [...]

There will soon be a new digital distribution platform to compete against Steam et al. Codenamed Desura it was recently revealed on ModDB by the staffers who have been working on it in secret for two years.

Friend of The Reticule, Thomas Senior is a big fan of Dragon Age, in this guest article he talks about Dwarven society in Dragon Age.

So here we are, at the end of Telltale and LucasArts’ daring resurrection of the Monkey Island franchise. Has the gamble of bringing back much loved characters Guybrush, LeChuck, Elaine and many others paid off? Quite simply: yes! The final episode almost manages to be the exclamation point on what has been a wonderful series. [...]