Dragon Age coming into focus

After suffering at the hands of the strangest marketing campaign for many a year, Bioware’s forthcoming RPG Dragon Age takes a big step in the right direction with the free Journeys. Read More »

The Best Game Developer Ever

Having played the superb Batman: Arkham Asylum through to completion recently, I couldn’t help but wonder: Why can’t all games be like this? Read More »

Love

Love is confusing, intransient, obtuse, contrary, thrilling and frustrating. It’s an appropriate name for a fascinating new multiplayer experiment from a single man. Read More »

Scribblenauts: wild speculation

Having heard about a magic game where anything you type becomes an object, and also having the mental age of a five year old, naturally the first thing I tried when I got my hands onĀ Scribblenauts was the word “poo”. Read More »

Batman Arkham Asylum video preview

The new Batman Arkham asylum demo is out and we took a closer look at it. Read More »

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. 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 »