Sep 21, 2010

Despite our earlier fevered ramblings about how to waste time until Civilization V is available in areas outside of North America, to coincide with the games release there a demo has appeared on Steam. The demo offers you the chance to play as one of three Civs on offer and lets you play through the first 150 turns, which should get you to around the medieval...

Sep 21, 2010

Team17’s top down extra terrestrial blaster series Alien Breed is getting a sequel on Xbox Live and Steam tomorrow. As the trailer above shows, it looks to be more of the same explosive gameplay that made last year’s remake of the 1991 classic so exciting. The game features a new campaign seeing Conrad, the chief engineer on board a crippled spaceship,...

Sep 21, 2010

With Killzone 3 I popped both my 3D and PlayStation Move cherry. As with most firsts, there was a lot of fumbling and nervous laughter and ultimately, it was a mixed bag. I have never been a big fan of motion controls as I feel they are rarely used to great effect, and Killzone 3 did little to convince me otherwise. It felt tacked-on to what otherwise seemed...

Sep 21, 2010

Since last week’s demise of APB I have found myself in the curious position of not really having a game to play, or at least devote a significant portion of my free time to. Sure I could revisit old gems; but when it comes to games that I truly love, I tend to play them to a point of over familiarity, where every line of dialogue is memorised and the...

Sep 21, 2010

Format: PC (version reviewed), Mac, DS, Wii, iPad & iPhone Unleashed: Out Now Developer: Revolution Software Players: 1 Site: revolution.co.uk Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars is considered one of the classics of 1990s PC adventure games. Re-released as a director’s cut though, the game doesn’t quite hold up, bouncing between being a charming...