Limbo – Now on Steam

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Matt Clarke

The darkly atmospheric platformer Limbo has just found a new home on the PC. If you didn’t play this when it came out on the 360 last year, now’s your chance to experience this most highly acclaimed indie hit. Featuring zero dialogue, you experience the story of a boy trapped in a very haunting world, void of colour as he traverses puzzles and obstacles, utilizing a satisfying physics engine and some of the most chilling sound design ever found in a game of this sort. Well worth £6.99 on Steam, here’s what Paul thought of it last year on XBLA.

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Review – Mortal Kombat

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Ray Fletcher

Mortal Kombat

Guest Article : Ray Fletcher

The Mortal Kombat series has long been known for its over the top and brutal 2D fighting roots, but in recent years it has also pushed into the realm of 3D. Now, as a fan of MK, I’ll openly admit it has been gradually running itself into the ground – losing sight of what made it awesome in the first place; but as my devotion to the fighting game I used to know and love dies off suddenly I hear news of a reboot for the brand… What!? Really!?

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Idiot Drivers, Enjoy a Lesson in Safety

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Paul Blackburn

Driving Rage

This morning I had immense road rage, but it was totally justified. One guy was inches away from driving out in front of me at a roundabout, and at least four others changed lanes in front of me suddenly, without indicating. This makes me angry, and in my pure rage I recalled the following scene from the brilliant action-comedy, Shoot Em Up. If only I could dispatch ignorant drivers in the same way. One can only dream!

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Humbie Indie Bundle Strikes Back – Pay What You Want

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Paul Blackburn

Humble Indie Bundle 3

The Humble Indie Bundle has returned! Get your hands on 5, count em, FIVE glorious indie games for however much you want! That’s right! Want to pay 1 singular dollar? Do it! There’s no strings attached. You can even decide how much of your contribution to the developers goes to who. Think the developers deserve all the money? Make it so! Prefer it if amazing children’s charity Child’s Play gets it all? Go for it. It’s your donation, and a pretty freakin’ sweet reward for giving. Seriously, all five games work on PC and Mac, so unless you’re reading this on your mobile, you have NO excuses to not take part in this amazing offer. We already have, and I’m playing the hell out of Cogs, and there’s still Hammerfight, And Yet It Moves, VVVVVV, and Crayon Physics Deluxe to go. What a score!

Click here to go get Humble Indie Bundle 3!

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Anders Breivik is a Psychopath who Happens to Like Games

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Matt Clarke

This weekend, Anders Behring Breivik murdered 76 people in Oslo, Norway. He has written a “manifesto”, explaining his actions, and among the 1’500 pages of whatever bullshit a psychopathic zealot might discuss are several refrences to video games. He claims to have used Modern Warfare 2 as a “training simulation” for his operation, and WoW as an excuse to his friends and family for spending so much time in isolation. This is no doubt going to dig up the age-old misguided media-fuelled argument that videogames are responsible for making people go around killing people. I expect Jack Thompson will rear his ugly face soon enough, but I want to get in here right away: the man who carried out this attack is INSANE.

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Currently Waiting – Batman, Rage, Uncharted

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Matt Clarke

This is the time when I’d usually write about three random games that I’m playing, and give you a brief run-down on each one, telling you what I think so far. But due to there being very little to play this summer, (all I’m doing is paying another visit to 2009’s Arkham Asylum and its proving to be a perfect warmup to the sequel which is out soon) I thought I’d tell you about some games that are nearly ready, but not quite… We’ve talked about Battlefield 3, Deus Ex 3 and Skyrim already, but here’s three other games that deserve some more attention.

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WTF of the Week

Posted on July 25, 2011 by BangClickReload

A Chinese couple sold three of their children to fund their gaming habits. What. The. Fuck?

Reported by VideoGamer.com , who heard about it from ABC News.

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The Walking Dead – Comic-Con Season 2 Trailer

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Matt Clarke

We’re not all about the games here. The ‘stuff’ bit of our slogan keeps us covered when we feel like telling you about other entertaining things. Things like this. Comic-Con just happened, and along with vague news of Jurassic Park 4 from Spielberg himself (yes!), there’s also this fantastic trailer of season 2 of The Walking Dead. Frank Darabont’s adaptation was the best TV show of last year, and we’re eagerly waiting to see the story continue.

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Re-remake – Goldeneye: Reloaded

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Matt Clarke

The N64 classic has already been remade once in last year’s well-received Wii title, but now its getting the HD treatment in a remade remake. Built on a new engine to make good use of the 360 and PS3’s superior hardware, it should be the better version in the end. Admittedly, its difficult to get excited about this console-only shooter when your brain is eagerly awaiting a certain FPS threequel about battles on fields. My fond memories of 4-player splitscreen in my bedroom with 3 mates running around the Temple, License to Kill, Automatics and NO-ONES ALLOWED ODDJOB, will live on forever though.

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OnLive is now, err… Live. In the UK.

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Matt Clarke

OnLive is an online streaming service which lets you play PC games on almost any machine with a monitor and a controller. A huge server full of choices runs the game you want from its own brain, and streams it to your computer almost instantly, bypassing the need to use any of your own hardware. It’s basically ‘cloud’ gaming, a craze that really seems to be catching on lately. What this means is the minimum system requirements to run a game like Crysis* is now simply a fast internet connection, and not a ridiculously expensive gaming rig. The service has been running in America for a while now, and is available in the UK at long last, so I had to try it out.

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Zeno Clash is Cheap! Also, Rock of Ages Trailer

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Matt Clarke

Zeno Clash is on a sale over at Steam this weekend. The indie FPS melee brawler set in a tribal punk fantasy world features some of the most brutal and satisfying melee combat in any modern game. The tale it weaves is surprisingly charming too, featuring a host of weird characters and some gorgeous visual design. The developers, Team Ace, have a new game out soon too, and its about a giant rock bowling through time and smashing stuff up. Talk about a change of pace…

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Augment This – 30 Minutes of Deus Ex 3 Gameplay

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Paul Blackburn

Deus Ex 3

Those Eidos and Square Enix bastards have been drip feeding us constant nibbles of Deus Ex 3 goodness in the form of screenshots, videos, and fictional web sites ever since it was announced, but now the drips are getting bigger, tastier, and even a little crunchier (the good kind of crunch, where you realize that chocolate you bought has biscuit in it). I couldn’t be looking forward to Deus Ex 3 more than I am, and seeing this video makes me wish I could fall into a sleep-induced coma for the next 44 days (though this would involve missing my birthday – a worthy sacrifice), wake up on release day, and get stuck in.

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