Stuart Young

The Whispered World review

From around 1995 to about 2005, 2D was a dirty word. The prevailing wind of new technology dictated that if…

11 years ago

Sleep is Death review

Sleep is Death (a.k.a. Geisterfahrer) is a game that takes some explaining - not least because of the rather self-consciously…

11 years ago

Greed Black Border review

Greed: Black Border attempts to transfer the dungeon crawling formula of action-RPGs such as Diablo to a sci-fi setting. It's…

11 years ago

Rocketbirds PC review

"I wanna be a robot/made of chrome" sings Austrian born electro-rock artist New World Revolution over an animation of a…

11 years ago

Crysis 2 vs. Rage

In 2011, two shooter heavyweights go to head to head; id Software's RAGE and Crytek's Crysis 2. id are the…

11 years ago

Resistance 3 vs. Killzone 3

Sony's never really had an exclusive top-flight FPS franchise in the mould of Call of Duty, Half-Life or Microsoft's Halo…

11 years ago

TV Shows That Need to be Turned Into Games

There haven't been that many decent games based on TV shows, but it's not for want of trying. Recent or…

11 years ago

Bond Gets No Lovin’ With the Ladies

Fights. Chases. Gadgets. Seduction. These are the four key elements of any Bond film.Sure, the Daniel Craig versions skimp on…

11 years ago

The Most Important Book To Gaming

In 1937, a professor of linguistics at Oxford University set out to develop a sequel to a children's fantasy story…

11 years ago

Was Obsidian Entertainment the smart choice for Fallout: New Vegas?

Californian software house Obsidian have a reputation as Western RPG understudies par excellence. Starting with Knights of the Old Republic…

11 years ago