Aug 13, 2010

One of the plus points for current generation console gaming is the ease with which gamers can communicate while playing online. For PC gamers, the only way this can be done with friends is to either drop out of the game and open up an instant messenger app, get on the phone or, worse, fiddle about with ancient technology like email. Until now. Currently in...

Format: PC Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: Realtime Worlds Developer: Realtime Worlds Players: Massively Multiplayer Site: www.apb.com/ APB (All Points Bulletin) is the hotly anticipated MMO from Dundee based developers Realtime Worlds – best known for Crackdown on Xbox 360 – and the brainchild of creative director Dave Jones. Jones is known in the...

Take the familiar formula of a real-time strategy game. Take the ingredients from any massively multi-player RPG. Now put them in a locked, dark closet for a couple hours. Well, if they were people, you’d have a baby nine months later. In the world of game development, however, it’s been 5 years. 5 years, Trion has spent developing this enticing...

It’s quite hard not to like the Warhammer 40k universe. Huge armour, big guns and bigger hammers, split between a huge variety of races, filled to bursting point with lore. It is clearly prime material for making videogames that justify an ‘M for mature’ rating. THQ took E3 to show off two new games based on Warhammer 40k that are already looking...

When Critical Gamer first sent me a press copy of Star Trek: Online, they told me I could take my time writing the review. “Don’t worry,” said one editor. “There’s no rush on MMOs. They can take a long time to get into.” That was two months ago (or 67 days, if you want to be specific), and still, I haven’t written my review. Critical...