Apr 30, 2013

UPDATE: The EU PSN release date has been announced as 15th May. Original article follows. Terraria has landed on PSN and XBLA today, and so it now of course has a launch trailer. It’s that bit of video up there. Click and watch it; it has literally everything. Okay, perhaps it’s a little disingenuous to say ‘literally everything’....

Apr 12, 2013

On today’s Fireside Review, Stephen and Bryan venture to the illustrious BattleBlock Theater in search of truth. Hatty Hattington has gone bad– the baddest sort of bad– and that means leaping, climbing, fighting, and perhaps skipping along a co-op platforming adventure for the ages. Absurd difficulty modes are compared to genius level design,...

Apr 8, 2013

Format: PC (version reviewed), 360, PS3 Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: 2K Games Developer: Irrational Games Players: 1 Site: http://www.bioshockinfinite.com/ To many people the original Bioshock was a prime example of a fantastic gaming experience – a masterpiece of well executed gaming, mood, plot and environment. It made a city under the sea...

Apr 8, 2013

Editor Update: Commentators confirmed At the end of March three living, breathing, and very much real cricket commentators were confirmed for Ashes Cricket 2013. David “Bumble” Lloyd – England coach for the 1997 Ashes, now a Sky Sports commentator – Michael “Slats” Slater, commentator on Australia’s Channel 9 (with experience as a player in 74...

Apr 3, 2013

Format: 360 (version reviewed), PS3 Unleashed: Out Now (360 worldwide, PS3 in NA), TBA (PS3 in PAL regions) Publisher: 505 Games Developer: Re-Logic Players: 1-4 (offline), 1-8 (online) Site: http://www.terraria.org/ Terarria has been described as the 2D Minecraft. This is accurate and for those of you who like Minecraft, to save you time, we’ll say...

Mar 26, 2013

As we have said many times before here at Critical Gamer – and as we shall doubtless repeat many times in the future – everybody likes free stuff. No matter what it is, if it’s free that means it looks, smells, feels, tastes, and works better. It’s an axiom. Well, now Gioteck (for whom you may remember our very own Mr G now works) are offering...