Brink

Genuine enthusiasm goes a long way with us. Listening to developers talk endlessly, with barely a pause for breath or to let the width of their smile shorten by an inch, sometimes they can win you over with their own personal excitement for a game. And in the case of Splash Damage’s senior game designer, […]

Dark Void

Ever wondered what would happen if Nikola Tesla met the Rocketeer in the middle of the Bermuda triangle, and together fought off an extra dimensional alien invasion as part of a ragtag group of exiled human survivors? No? Then you are clearly little short on imagination but luckily enough, the team at Airtight Studios isn’t […]

Mini Ninjas

It is always interesting to see how easily games get pigeonholed. It doesn’t take much- just an association with a particular genre or even a look and a game can be permanently branded. And, indeed, at first glance everything about Mini ninjas screams ‘casual family title’, or worse: ‘throwaway Wii kiddy fodder’, but thankfully we […]

Batman: Arkham Asylum 2

As a tribute to the source material, Arkham Asylum 2 is superb. The story, scripted by longtime Animated Series Writer Paul Dini, is a twisty affair where the Joker is incarcerated in the titular asylum, before breaking out and putting the Dark Knight through a series of challenges, ranging from the difficult to the annoying. […]

The Saboteur

There’s no denying that Pandemic’s last title, Mercenaries 2, was a bit of a disaster. For a game primarily about blowing everything up, then blowing it up again before it hits the ground, it managed to get an awful lot wrong. During pre-release events in which Mercenaries 2 was shown off, there was a feeling […]

Lost Planet 2

They say you can’t have everything in life and that’s probably true. We don’t have to be happy about it though. Lost Planet: Extreme Condition’s sequel seems to have slightly less extreme conditions, at least when it comes to the weather. Tropical paradises and desert lands don’t quite compare to the desolate frozen hell of […]