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 [...]

Here’s the first of our Cane and Rinse Conversationals, where members of the C&R community discuss their thoughts about the wonderful world of videogames, starting off with the newly announced PlayStation 4. As something of an experiment and potentially something [...]

An appreciation of Archer Maclean’s peerless Defender tribute In the 1980′s, when dedicated coin-op PCB’s lead the technological gaming charge (and before many of the industry’s legal teams were quite so hot on little things like Intellectual Property rights), one [...]

This week we deliberate over Thatgamecompany’s offerings. In this Issue Leon, Tony, Josh and Sean review the outstanding, innovative titles produced during Thatgamecompany’s three game deal with Sony; the soothing flOw, the beautiful Flower and the emotional Journey. The panel [...]

Finding an interesting game for the PlayStation Vita on launch day should have been easy. Unfortunately, the selection of re-hashed and re-packaged games just didn’t hold much of anything for me. Try though I might, my thorough search for a [...]

This week we discuss Kojima-san’s PlayStation classic – Metal Gear Solid. In the second of six planned Metal Gear specials, Leon, Tony, James and Ready-Up‘s Paul Rooney go large on the series’ 1998 32-bit début – Metal Gear Solid. In a self-imposed-length-limitation-defying [...]

Conventional wisdom, and a couple of throwaway comments on our recent Halo Anniversary podcast Issue, say that after Rare’s 1997 Bond smash and before Bungie’s 2001 game-changer, there weren’t any first-person shooters worth playing on console. It was that stage of [...]