Lo cunto de li cunti Independent developer, Tale Of Tales aims to create “emotionally rich interactive entertainment” whilst eschewing the “limitations of competitive play”. In Issue 81, James, Tony and special guest Paul Rooney look at four of their games [...]

“We fell through a TV! Actually, uh… what is going on here?” Shin Megami Tensei has been around for awhile, standing just outside the industry spotlight, quietly releasing unusually Japanese RPGs desperately searching for… Signs of Love. Despite garnering only [...]

“Are you sure you wanna be defiling your ancestor’s remains like that?” After ten years of working with Crash and Jak, Naughty Dog attempted to send gamers on an adventure of intrigue and derring-do that would rival those of Lara [...]

“We will be watching” Once again you’re put in charge of defending the Earth from an extraterrestrial incursion, only this time you have an army at your command and the backing of the world’s leaders (at first anyway). And when [...]

“Hello.  Um…allow me to introduce myself” “The name’s Resetti.  Mr. Resetti. Have we…met before?  At the…post office, perhaps?  Yeah, whatever. Anyway, let me just say thanks for buying this game, Animal Crossing. Um…on behalf of everyone at Nintendo, I…um…I… What was the next part? [...]

“This is not a sermon. I will offer no insight” It took four studios to make BioShock 2: 2K Marin, 2K China, Arkane and Digital Extremes working together to attempt to match (or better) what Ken Levine’s Irrational had achieved [...]

“Like it or not, the world has changed” In Ubisoft’s I Am Alive you play as an unnamed man trying to reach his partner and child in an America left in ruins by a mysterious “Event”. The protagonist’s journey proves [...]

“Hell, it’s about time” From 1998 South Korea would never be the same again. It was that year that Blizzard decided to put aside their swords and wands for a brief moment, strapped themselves into some power armour, and brought [...]

“Grand Upper!” In the 80’s and 90’s you could hardly move through town for badly dressed punks being flying kicked by vigilantes with terrible haircuts. Fortunately these events were documented for posterity by such games as Renegade, Double Dragon, Final [...]

“If you want guarantees, buy a toaster” Formed by the three Yerli brothers, Frankfurt’s Crytek burst onto the PC gaming scene with the technically impressive FarCry in 2004. Three years later they followed up with Crysis, a near-future sci-fi FPS that remains one [...]