“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 [...]

In his latest id Software Quick Rinse, Darren Gargette bottles out of playing Quake III: Arena veterans online in favour of some low skill AI. PC version shown.

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 [...]

By 2069 the world will be controlled by giant mega-corporations called Syndicates They will vie for the minds of a populace helpless to escape their grasp. The dystopia imagined by Starbreeze earlier this year in Syndicate bears more than a [...]

Perfect Dark loving and newly Battlefield Premium Darren ‘dezm0nd’ Gargette tears it up in a high rise, pretending he’s in the Carrington Institute the whole time. PC version shown.

It’s still alive, and cannot apologise: Mirror’s Edge We mantle into Volume Two by reflecting on the strange time of 2008, when Electronic Arts were championing new ideas, first-person shooters didn’t need guns and freerunning was relatively new to videogames. [...]

Grabbin’ pills! Leon, Tony, Darren Gargette and special guest David Turner of Joypod (presented by Spong.com) discuss Valve’s zombie opus Left 4 Dead and its sequel whilst sharing out the med-packs and watch each others’ backs while Cane & Rinse’s AI Director [...]

This week we revisit Battlefield 3 to discuss its multiplayer. A different sort of a show of this Issue as Cane & Rinse returns to the ever-evolving world of DICE‘s Battlefield 3 online multiplayer. Leon hosts as hardened veterans Jay [...]

Josh rides down the slopes of EA’s SSX reboot.

Leon, Tony, Karl and Darren Forman don their muscle suits and slogan-daubed space armour while reloading their shotties one-handed and swearing as they return to EA’s 2011 blaster Bulletstorm. Is People Can Fly’s whiplash orgy as much fun as you [...]