Dec 23, 2011

NOTE: Previously published and subsequently lost to an evil electronic gremlin, it only recently came to my attention that this had not been republished. The day of our Joe Danger: Special Edition review seemed as good a time as any to put it back up again. If you’ve already played Joe Danger, you’re almost certainly excited for Joe Danger: The...

Dec 21, 2011

What’s better than Joe Danger? Not an awful lot, as you’ll know if you have the game and/or if you’ve read our review of the original PSN release. Well, how about Joe Danger on a quadbike? Still not good enough? Then how about Santa Claus on a quadbike performing death-defying stunts? And how about if this is DLC that costs, oh… nothing...

Aug 5, 2011

Format: XBLA, PSN, PC Unleashed: Out Now (PSN and PC versions not yet released) Publisher: Ubisoft Developer: Ubisoft Mountpellier Players: 1 Site: http://from-dust.ubi.com/from-dust/en-GB/home/ From Dust is a great big bundle of ambition. Its incredible use of physics presents the shifting ways of nature with an uncanny amount of believability, and the...

Jul 28, 2011

As with many new studios, Supergiant Games have opted for digital distribution with their first game, Bastion. Explaining the decision to Critical Gamer, writer and level designer Greg Kasavin emphasises the power and independence it affords the team. “Many of us used to work on retail games. Amir, Gavin, and I met while working on the Command...

Jul 26, 2011

Format: XBLA, PC Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Developer: Supergiant Games Players: 1 Site: http://supergiantgames.com/?page_id=242 “Proper story’s supposed to start at the beginning,” rumbles the narrator, as Bastion’s albino-haired hero slumbers on a chunk of rock in the sky. “Ain’t so...