One thing that bothers me about modern game design is the very small pool of inspiration creators choose to draw from. You can build skyscrapers […]
Tag: 360
A brief review-ie of Banjo-Tooie
The summer days are long and there’s a new Rare game on the horizon and the more I think about it, the longer those days […]
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Brian Tarran loses himself in the latest entry in BioWare’s Dragon Age series. You know those games: the ones that are so brilliant that when […]
Cover me! – Akai Katana
The cover below shows us that the game in question is… a) really anime b) a classic meld of 1940s era wartime and Japanese warrior […]
Finding stress relief in Dark Souls II
At the beginning of this year (following a pretty hectic evening in hospital) I was diagnosed with stress and anxiety issues. I was warned that […]
Dragon Age: Inquisition Quick Rinse
Or: “How Not To Do It”. Josh attempts to take down one of Dragon Age: Inquisition’s titular wyverns… it doesn’t go well. If you like […]
Alien: Isolation
In your living room, everyone can hear you scream. Brian Tarran reviews The Creative Assembly’s spiritual sequel to the classic space-based survival horror movie, Alien: […]
Music Monday: Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
It’s been over a year since SEGA Studios Australia released their (to me) hugely disappointing remake for contemporary platforms, but, as is not unusual, I […]
Music Monday: Dragon Age: Origins
A blindingly obvious but frankly essential Music Monday this week. In the latest Cane and Rinse the podcast (issue 149) we review BioWare’s five-year-old (how?!) […]
Strider
Brian Tarran slices and dices his way through the 2014 remake of the ninja action adventure. If the 2014 remake of Strider was a car, […]
Music Monday: Wolfenstein: The New Order
I got the platinum on Wolfenstein: The New Order! I know, it’s not the hardest to earn in the history of PlayStation Trophies but it’s […]
BattleBlock Theater Quick Rinse
Darren Gargette is your puppet on a stick for this vignette of Behemoth’s XBLA and PC (this version) platformer, BattleBlock Theater. If you like these […]