I’ve cared about game characters in the past, no, really I have.  But not in the same way as the latest Fire Emblem made me care about them.  Because as much as Fire Emblem Awakening is a game about war and strategy, it’s also about relationships, friends and family.
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The House of the Dead: Overkill was an unlikely addition to the Wii’s line-up, but certainly a welcome one from Sega.
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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is a love story.  It’s totally in love with a period of time we like to call ‘the 80s’.  If the directors of Predator, Robocop, Terminator and Commando got together and made a Duke Nukem film then Blood Dragon would be the game of that film.
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Danger, deadly blackouts and strange freezes. This was the first week of Defiance thanks to server issues that go hand in hand with both MMO launches and trying to fit over 10,000 possible players on to a console game.
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When making a cake one slip with the wrong mixture of ingredients can spell disaster, but it can equally create something new.
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Activision’s sequel to the mega-successful Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure has been out for a while now, but the Wii U version was a scarce box to find on store shelves at the time.
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EA have come in for a lot of stick with their move to Freemium on mobile and integrated microtransactions in console games. Â Real Racing 3 is the latest title to go freemium, but does it hurt the game or is it still top of the smartphone racers?
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I used to love trips to the beach. Â The smell of the sea, the feel of the sand between my toes and the sound of the arcade belting out 80’s guitar riffs in a bid to get you to stick 10p in the slot.
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If Trials games were The A-Team then Trials Evolution would be B.A. Baracas, all muscle and menace. Joe Danger, meanwhile, would be ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock, a crazy nut who just happens to have a lot of brains hidden under his cap and loves a wild ride or two.
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When Sir Clive Sinclair stood back to look at his finished Spectrum 48k 30 years ago, I wonder if he ever dared imagine the technology would one day be replicated on a device smaller than one of his calculators?Â
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