Apr 25, 2012

The Walking Dead is an award-winning comic, which was later turned into a pretty darned brilliant TV series. Today, the first instalment of the five-episode videogame from Telltale Games and Skybound Entertainment is released on PSN, PC and Mac (with an iOS version due in the summer, and XBLA “very soon”)… and it looks pretty good. As you can see in...

Apr 24, 2012

We hope you like montages made from two second clips of intense gameplay action, or EA does at least as the debut trailer for Crysis 3 is made up of exactly that. There’s plenty of action featuring the new bow weapon as well as pot shots taken with the series favourite SCAR and some sort of shoulder mounted alien machine gun. Crytek’s latest Crysis game...

Apr 24, 2012

Slow motion gun fights and explosions sell things, right? It’s certainly the route Rockstar has taken with their TV commercial for Max Payne 3. Coming to think of it, we would probably buy more cleaning products if they were advertised with big enough explosions. The advert for Max Payne 3 doesn’t try and inspire you with the narrative or plot, instead...

Apr 23, 2012

Even though annual Call of Duty games are becoming as predictable as the tide it still doesn’t make the world any less excited about the first glimpse of the next instalment. It looks like we’ll be getting our initial peak in 719,150.76 seconds… no, 719,147.34… no 719,143.59… The redesigned CallOfDuty.com website has been adorned with a countdown...

Apr 20, 2012

The industry’s seen plenty of doom and gloom stats over the last two years, and here’s another one; MCV is reporting that Xbox 360 sales plummeted by almost 50% for the first quarter of 2012. 1.4m units were shipped in that period – and ‘shipped’ does not mean ‘sold’ – which, we presume, means roughly 2.8m were shipped in...

Apr 19, 2012

Platform: PS3 (version reviewed), 360, PC Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: Sega Developer: Team CS1 Players: 1 (offline), 2-10 (online) Site: http://www.sega.co.uk/binarydomain/?t=EnglishUK Binary Domain is a sci-fi squad shooter carrying clichés which may scare you off. A steroid-inflated hoo-ra buddy; combat which relies heavily on a cover system; an evil...