A couple of months ago I recorded an interview with C.Y. Reid, also known as failnaut. It took me longer than it should to edit the three hour conversation down to something slightly less than half that, but here it [...]

I stand in front of the imposing edifice that houses Anor Londo’s equally daunting Dragon Slayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough, and I am lost in its beauty. It’s a curious facet of Lordran that the splendour of its most spectacular [...]

What do Antichamber, Bientôt l’été and Proteus have in common? ‘They’re all video games’ seems like an innocuous enough, if non-committal response, but is it safe to make even so simple an assertion? Life has a funny way of leading [...]

A Sunday afternoon stroll along the beach, followed by a glass of merlot and a cigarette over a game of chess. These are the pursuits on offer in Bientôt l’été, Tale Of Tales most ambitious work to date. Life’s simple [...]

It seems the retro nostalgia bubble has no breaking point. Any and every video gaming platform is rich with games harking back to the ‘good ol’ days’. Super Icon Ltd’s Life Of Pixel has ensured that PlayStation Mobile is no [...]

Quirky puzzle games with a simple core idea, a striking aesthetic and bundles of quick-to-play levels are not exactly in short supply on iOS, in fact there are hundreds of them. Hundreds, geddit? Hundreds? Hundreds? Bueller? I wish more people [...]

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” So said Albert Einstein, and (less notably, but more pertinently to the topic at hand) Vaas Montenegro, Far Cry 3’s antagonist. Given that [...]

It’s New Year’s Eve and I sit next to the fire, mulling over previous years in video gaming as I’m prone to do on a cold December evening. With their rap sheets long forgotten, lost to the ravages of time, [...]

Catcha Catcha Aliens! is an iOS game that blends aspects several other games. Can it exceed the sum of its parts? Let’s find out. All I knew about Catcha Catcha Aliens! before playing it was that Jonathan Ross and Stephen [...]

Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2012) promised to be a return to open-world racing, and was lauded as a spiritual successor to Burnout Paradise. Why then does it seem to be a shadow of its predecessor? Criterion Games have a [...]