Shhh. Forgive me for whispering, but I’m currently hiding in a bush. Welcome to Monaco, a challenging comedy concerning classic crime capers . Whether bank or glamorous mansion, nowhere is safe from the nimble fingers of the locksmith or his friends as you’re tasked with purloining a number of precariously protected props across this prestigious principality.
Before the recent explosion in turn-based strategies, people would have laughed at the idea of releasing a game in which people take turns at moving. Asynchronous movement was a dated idea, back from when computers couldn’t cope with large scale AI calculations, having no place in modern gaming.
“The thing is, Adam, time travel is like visiting Paris. You can’t just read the guidebook, you’ve got to throw yourself in. Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing complete strangers- or is that just me?”
There are massive, galaxy spanning 4x games that take hundreds of hours to play your way through; games like Sins Of A Solar Empire and Galactic Civilizations. Fantastic, mindbogglingly enormous games that will eat vast portions of your life.
In perhaps one of 2013’s most landmark moments in PC gaming history, Disney have taken the decision to bring a close to the Lucasarts studio.
Digital Spy revealed yesterday that the Doctor Who: Eternity Clock series has been placed on indefinite hold by the BBC.
This morning EA have revealed that whilst they are still unwilling to reveal the identity of their new CEO, they have stated that he will require an always-active internet connection in order to function.
This morning an EA spokesman announced the closure of Sim City servers. With dwindling profits from the franchise and flagging consumer interest in their month old product, the decision has been made to finally bring about the conclusion to their city-building simulator.
We’ve been waiting months to find out what lay at the centre of Peter Molyneux’s Cube, but now a young girl from Ipswich has finally cracked open its cryptic casing to reveal all.
There’s been a lot of exciting news oozing from this year’s GDC, but for me, one of the most cheer-inducing has been the unveiling of Full Control Studios’ Space Hulk.