LucasArts returns: a win for gaming history

LucasArts have re-released some of their classic adventures on Steam, The Secret of Monkey Island is making its way to the Xbox and Telltale are making new Monkey Island episodes. This is hugely exciting, for several reasons. Read More »

Games at the movies

A recent exchange with Total Film and Channel 4 Film via Twitter once again raised the bitter topic of movie adaptations of computer games. Why have they been, to date, so uniformly terrible? Read More »

Flight Control: iPhone finally gets a good game

iPhone games are big business. The only problem is that most of them are rubbish – with the notable exception of Flight Control. Read More »

A glimpse at PC gaming in 2009

We’re far enough into the year to have escaped the ridiculous Christmas rush and the subsequent deathly lull; far enough to see what’s on the horizon. Read More »

OnLive – for reals?

OnLive is, at least in principal, the first thing since Steam to make me think “that’s so painfully simple, its brilliant”. However I can’t help thinking this is profoundly over-ambitious.
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Call of Duty 4 wins BAFTA story award

So, Call of Duty 4 has won the BAFTA for ‘Story and character’, eh? That’s certainly ruffled a few feathers, not least The Guardian. Despite the kneejerk surprise, it is however a wholly deserving win. Read More »

GRID obliterates the realism-arcade divide

Racing games have always been something that I’ve liked more in theory than in practise, always being overly silly and arcadey or tediously ‘realistic’. GRID falls into a pleasant in-between Read More »

The name of the game

Eurogamer recently completed their round-up of the top 50 games of the year, as voted for by their writers. As usual for EG it’s a fairly eclectic mixture crossing all platforms and genres Read More »

GTA IV: Partners in crime

GTA IV has finally arrived on PC shores after an agonising six month wait, giving us keyboardites a chance to savour its multiplayer innovations. Read More »