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How to make a gamer
Like a lot of people around the world, gaming has always been a hobby, an interest and most importantly an escape. After a year of being with my current partner I introduced an addition to our...
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Review: Star Ocean: The Last Hope
As you may know from our podcasts, Japanese RPGs have always been an obsession of mine so when I heard that the next Star Ocean was coming to the Xbox 360 as an exclusive, the title was immediately...
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Review: Tales of Vesperia
Namco Bandai are well known for the Tekken and Soul Calibur games, along with some all time classics such as Pac Man, Galaga and Dig Dug, however these aren’t their only accomplishments. As with any...
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Review: X-men Origins: Wolverine
Each year we see our fair share of games based on movies, and this year is has been no exception. With the success of the previous three X-Men films, a prequel to the trilogy was added and kick-started...
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Review: Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust
Wanna be in a movie?! If you were asked that question what would you say?! Me personally, I would say hell yeah! That’s not why we’re here though. We’re here to talk about games but luckily the game...
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Review: Batman: Arkham Asylum
‘It’s the car, right? Chicks love the car’. Ok well it’s probably one of the best lines in one of the worst Batman movies, but it still remains a fact that we all want the car, but we won’t get it in...
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OnLive: The next big thing?
New technology is always being researched; even as you’re reading this new developments have probably been made. At the GDC earlier this year an apparent technological breakthrough was announced for...
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Review: Borderlands
Anyone who has been reading my twitter updates probably has a good idea how this review is going to go. Three years ago Gearbox Software gave us a teaser of a new game they were working on. The video...
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Hands on: Rogue Warrior
One of the unexpected games we came across at the Eurogamer Expo was Bethesda’s latest piece of work; Rogue Warrior. Based on the life of a veteran Navy Seal Richard Marcinko (voiced by Mickey Rourke)...
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Hands on: Alien Vs. Predator
While I was wandering around the Eurogamer Expo and sampling the delights, I came across Alien Vs. Predator. It was tucked away in a corner of the 18+ section, with four players all facing off against...
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Hands on: Mass Effect 2
As busy as Eurogamer was, I found that if lady luck was on my side I could pretty much get on anything. This included Mass Effect 2, which for two days had a nice big queue of people all blocking the...
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Hands on: MAG
The year was 2025, my squad was caught in a fire-fight. Pinned down by enemy troops it was looking grim. Out of nowhere, the rest of the platoon seemed to just parachute in above us, hitting the ground...
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Hands on: God of War 3
I have a rule when it comes to games: If you can maim, decapitate, incinerate your enemy. Maybe leaving them on the ground holding in their own intestines while you put your gun to their head and...
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SteelSeries 5H V2 Headset
Audio in games is something for me that needs to be absolutely perfect. Clarity of the sound and audio effects is something that helps immerse you in the world of whatever game you are playing, and...
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Thank you for your cooperation!
When I first started gaming I played lots of different games, some of them on my own and a few with some mates. It dawned on me the other day that I have been playing more co-op games of late and not...
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Cliffy B, we love you, but…
In a recent interview on IGN, Cliff Bleszinski talked about the future of gaming and the Gears of War franchise. In the interview he expressed his support for motion controllers like ‘Project Natal’...
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Review: Final Fantasy XIII
Way back in 1997 a game was released that would forever be heralded as one of the best games of all time. It had an epic storyline, one that is still gripping people to this day. The game was Final...
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Motion control, losing control
As a gamer I like to sit back, relax while playing a game and make as little movement as possible! It’s not that I’m lazy or anything like that, but to me gaming is supposed to be a time for me to wind...
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Review: The Legend of Vraz
Indie titles always interest me; it’s all the hard work that goes into making them from developers trying to make a name for themselves. With these games you tend to find that games go one of two ways....
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Sex in games: Where to draw the line
Sex in video games has always been taboo. It starts with a developer adding something to a game that people deem inappropriate, like a having sex with a prostitute in GTA, to being something more...
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Review: Earthworm Jim HD
1994 was a bad year. Fred West’s house was excavated, Kurt Cobain killed himself and Ayrton Senna was killed during an accident at the San Marino Grand Prix. In fact if you look at all of that year you...
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My gaming dry spell
It happens to every gamer and some point in time. Sometimes more than just the once. It’s what I like to call the ‘dry spell’, where you pop a game in the console, start to play and promptly turn it...
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Review: Nier
I must say, when I got Nier through the post, I hadn’t really heard a great deal about it. All I knew was that it had been developed by Cavia and published by Square Enix, which wasn’t a great deal of...
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Demo Impressions: Mafia II
The original Mafia game is one of my all-time personal favourites. It wasn’t a brilliant game although I thought the PC version of the game was far better than any console version. Gameplay wise it was...
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Borderlands: What I’d like in a sequel
One of the best games to come out of 2009 was Gearbox Software’s Borderlands. This game has everything. It has class, it has replay value and it has so many different varieties of weapons that you can...
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Review: Mafia II
One game that has always been a firm favourite of mine is Mafia. It wasn’t as refined as games like GTA, nor as expansive, but it had a style of storytelling that hasn’t been duplicated in any other...
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Demo Impressions: Enslaved
Enslaved is a game that in all honesty I haven’t paid any attention to. I had seen it advertised but that was about it. With the demo on Xbox live, I decided that it would be a good time to start...
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Review: Hydrophobia
Hydrophobia is a Greek term that describes the fear of water. In English, however, it’s the later stages of rabies, but I think we shall stick to the Greek version for this interpretation. What happens...
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Morality control in games
Moral choices in games are something that I really like. I’m drawn to games like this like a moth to a flame and I like to be able to choose how aggressive or nice my character is, within each world I...
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Review: Saw II: Flesh and Blood
Tobin Bell might possibly be the creepiest guy in a film. Now I’m not saying that the guy is downright weird or anything, he just plays characters far too well. That said, Jigsaw was the only thing I...
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Review: Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom
When the chance to review Majin came up, I have to admit that I wasn’t sure I was going to like the game. I, for one, had never heard of it up until we were asked to review it, so a little research was...
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Review: Divinity 2: Dragon Knight Saga
When I first got into gaming, I realised that I took to it naturally. Before I knew it I was looking for the next game to challenge me, this proved quite difficult, mainly because I was finishing games...
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Online passes and one angry gamer
So, you go into your local store to pick up the latest game, dipping in and paying full price, brand new on release. You get all the way home, pop your newly acquired purchase into your console,...
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Creating the perfect atmosphere
One thing I love about gaming is how an atmosphere can almost suck you right inside a game world. Creating an atmosphere that can do that is a hard task for any developer and takes real talent,...
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Bound by Flame
Having never played anything by developer Spiders I got a little excited at the thought of playing their latest game, Bound by Flame, especially since it’s in my favorite genre. I easily get sucked...
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Murdered: Soul Suspect
Murdered: Soul Suspect has been on my radar for quite some time. Let’s face it, what could possibly be cooler than a detective solving the ultimate murder; his own? It’s one thing investigating a...
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Watch Dogs
Touted as being one of the biggest games to come in 2014, the hype leading up to the release of Watch Dogs was either going to doom it into oblivion or give us everyone’s game of the year. I wasn’t...
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Minecraft saved my sanity
Relationships are one of the biggest, most complex changes that a person has in their lifetime. One second you only have yourself to worry about, the next you have this other person that makes you...
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Tales of Xillia 2
When I played the first Tales of Xillia, I was instantly drawn into its world and, thanks mostly to its brilliant protagonists, I put a lot of hours in, playing through both stories and seeing pretty...
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Do graphics make the game?
Fallout 4 is one of the most anticipated games of 2015. With millions of people watching every video, reading every article, it’s hard for it to not come under some kind of scrutiny. As a reviewer its...
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Why I hate the decline of local multiplayer
Gaming in split-screen is a time-honoured tradition amongst best buddies, and is the first multiplayer experience that most people have had in their gaming lives. Much like playing in an arcade, you...
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