Call if Game of the Year, call it best games, call it whatever you like – at the […]
Category Archive: Reviews
I have been on holidays for the last week and for a large part of that I have […]
Crysis 2 is perhaps the most intense action-based first person shooter I’ve played in a long, long time. […]
It’s very rare that I’ll buy a game on the strength of the box art alone. Usually a […]
I finished Far Cry 2 (buy on Amazon) the other day, and I have to say I was […]
I finally finished Bayonetta last week, just days before the announcement that the sequel is not only in […]
Transformers: War for Cybertron was a decent, if not derivative shooter that lived and died by its licence. […]
I finished Duke Nukem Forever, but there isn’t a lot I can say about it that hasn’t already […]
Sometimes silliness is okay. If the relatively universal praise for Asura’s Wrath and its over the top action and anime […]
I have a general fondness for the guys over at Codemasters. What they do, they do well, particularly […]
Another one bites the dust. Game off the mantelpiece that is. I had to resist the temptation to […]
This isn’t the first time I’ve played Broken Sword, but it’s the first time I’ve finished it. I […]
Back at the start of 2011 I wrote what can only be described as a love letter to […]
Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars is easily my favourite game on the 3DS so far, and without doubt the […]
Back in January I got all excited at the thought of playing a version of Star Fox 64 […]
Let me take you back to the dim and distant past of January 2010. I’m in deepest darkest […]
Huge apologies, but this week’s post has been slightly delayed – the perils of holding down a full-time […]
I am an Imperial knight named Swarley with an innate ability for cutting dudes up with a sword, […]
A New Year’s message from Lucius Merriweather, Esq. As you probably know by now, both Sir Gaulian and […]
2011 was a ripper year for gaming. Ken Levine, in an interview with Eurogamer, even went as far […]
Yes, I know I said I wouldn’t be buying any more games until I’ve finished all of the […]
As you can probably tell by the fact I’m writing a blog about video games, I’m rather partial […]
[by Sir Gaulian] The 3DS is one of the dustiest consoles I own. It sits, usually idle, on […]
I think the title of this post pretty much sums it all up. If you’ve played Shadow of […]
Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command was an isometric squad turn-based strategy game developed by RedLynx and published by THQ […]
I bought this game YEARS ago. Seriously, I think it was in about 2008, or maybe even 2007, […]
[penned by Sir Gaulian] I am not an avid reader but Bret Easton Ellis is one of my […]
Enslaved: Odyssey To The West becomes the second game to fall from The Mantelpiece – at this blistering […]
I’ll say right off the bat that not a whole lot has changed, functionally at least, from Pro Evolution […]
Assassin’s Creed II has the honour of being the first game to be knocked off The Mantelpiece and […]
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