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. […]

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 […]

Heavy Rain

Most game presentations consist of a bored developer robotically reciting lines as they endure the tenth demo of the day, but not David Cage’s, the man behind the ambitious PS2 adventure, Fahrenheit. As we watched one of his colleagues play through a demo of Heavy Rain, he was like an overexcited toddler, yelling at the […]