Critical Gamer: Now in print!

Critical Gamer: Now in print!

Jan 14, 2011

Yes! No! Sort of! Okay, here’s the deal: West Coast Review, published by Wyvex Media, is a free magazine delivered to around 10,000 addresses across the West coast of Scotland. The latest issue – which is due to start falling through letterboxes within the next week or two – boasts a new gaming section, provided by… Critical Gamer. There are to...

Critical Gamer’s Game of the Year

Critical Gamer’s Game of the Year

Dec 24, 2010

It’s Christmas time! This means surreptitiously hunting down the addresses of relatives you carefully ignore the rest of the year, writing Christmas cards for work colleagues you’d happily slit the throats of if you were confident nobody would ever find out, and resisting the urge to throttle people whenever they say β€œIt doesn’t feel like...

The winners of our Lead and Gold Steam giveaway are…

The winners of our Lead and Gold Steam giveaway are…

Dec 20, 2010

Two things became clear as a result of our Lead and Gold Steam code giveaway. Firstly, we have readers from all over the world; and secondly, about one third of them are called ‘John’ or ‘Jon’. The winners are: Hasan (AKA Dick Spurs), Ajman, UAE Peter (AKA The Punisher) NRW, Germany John (AKA JohnGunEyed), Norfolk, UK John Dill (AKA...

Diamond Dan giveaway: The winners

Diamond Dan giveaway: The winners

Dec 17, 2010

The winners of our Diamond Dan giveaway are: Kevin Oakes, UK Ronald Nadenns, Ukraine Peter Toth, Hungary Congratulations to you all! We still have a few codes left for our Lead and Gold giveaway, get ‘em while they’re...

Critical Gamer in the Top 20 ‘most influential’ UK gaming blogs (says Wikio)

Critical Gamer in the Top 20 ‘most influential’ UK gaming blogs (says Wikio)

Dec 7, 2010

If shoddy gaming blogs are the turds on the pavement of journalism, then ‘Top X’ lists are the bits of sweetcorn which make such turds easier to spot. We abhor lists such as ‘Top 10 Videogame Babes’ or ‘Top 10 Best/Worst Games Released In The Last Six Weeks’. So why are we publishing, for the first time ever, a top 20? Well...