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Burnout Paradise Remastered heading to PS4, Xbox One and PC

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Burnout is coming back! A remastered version of Burnout Paradise is set for launch on 16th March, with a PC version heading along later in the year.

Lewis Packwood 20 February 2018 News

The death of single-player games has been greatly exaggerated

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EA has closed Visceral Games and declared that it will ‘pivot’ the single-player Star Wars game it was developing into something with more longevity. But are single-player games really dead?

Lewis Packwood 22 October 2017 Features

Spiffing Reads: Final Fantasy XV, Titanfall 2 and the Best Halloween Costume

I ran out of time on Friday, so Spiffing Reads is a bit late this week. But just […]

Lewis Packwood 7 November 2016 Spiffing Reads

32 years of brilliant video game box art – #27 (1988) F/A-18 Interceptor

Another year, another countdown, another birthday.  And I’m boxing it all up, tying a nice little bow around […]

___ 6 November 2015 32 Years of Brilliant Box Art, Pulp

Racing to 31 – 31 racing game greats: #4 Shift 2: Unleashed (2011)

It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old […]

___ 24 November 2014 31 Racing Game Greats

Racing to 31 – 31 racing game greats: #19 Need for Speed: High Stakes (1999)

It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old […]

___ 12 November 2014 31 Racing Game Greats

The case of Criterion Games and the fickle internet

This week Creative Director of the brilliance-machine that is Criterion Games, Alex Ward, noted that the studio most […]

___ 16 September 2013 Opinions

Big Risk, Big Reward – how video games are no different from Glengarry Glen Ross

The video game industry is an amazing microcosm of capitalism.  Businesses rise and fall.  They invest, research, innovate […]

___ 30 August 2013 Opinions

An argument for licence exclusivity

EA Sports has pretty much a cart blanche when it comes to its stranglehold over key sporting licences […]

___ 5 June 2013 Opinions

Call it a structural change – my quest to play less, enjoy more

  It is time to cry me a river.  I have a whole lot of friends that play sports […]

___ 21 March 2013 Opinions

Gaelic Games Football is an indictment on the reach of video games

Sometimes the reach of video games surprises me.  The fact that you could pretty much take any small […]

___ 12 April 2012 Opinions, Pulp

The Medal of Honor is earned by only the best soldiers. Luckily this soldier is great.

Another one bites the dust.  Game off the mantelpiece that is.  I had to resist the temptation to […]

___ 26 March 2012 Reviews
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