Aug 11, 2011

Hard Reset is a futuristic first person shooter that has appeared out of relatively nowhere and attracted itself a little bit of attention over a short period of time. Created by Flying Wild Hog (the Polish development studio made of up creatives who worked on the likes of The Witcher 2 and Bulletstorm), Critical Gamer was able to sit down with a preview build...

It’s been over a decade since Blizzard released Starcraft, which has since been championed as one of the best—if not the best—Real-Time-Strategy Games of all time. Starcraft II is now just months away from its 2010 release, and Blizzard (wanting to make sure that their game is as close to perfect as possible) is pumping out an increasing number of Beta...

Short and sweet. Not words that gamers like to associate with demos, but to be fair, they can’t all be like Darksiders and Just Cause 2. However short as it is though, the Splinter Cell: Conviction demo, just released on Xbox Live, makes up for it by being sweeter than 12 sugar packets liberally sprinkled over a slab of milk chocolate. We’ve seen the videos...

Open world games are very good at instilling a general level of madness and carnage as it can feel as though everyone and their rabid dog is out to get you. GTA often sends wave after wave of suicidal policemen your way who appear to have no desire to experience their children growing up, and Far Cry 2 has an entire nation of people turn against you for no...

What would you get if you mixed the basics of any war based RTS game with Risk and then set it during the 1940s and threw in some espionage? You’d probably get R.U.S.E. We sneaked our way into the beta to see just what it’s all about. Developed by Eugen Systems, R.U.S.E hopes to redefine a well trodden genre of game by making espionage as important a...