Away from headliners Guns N’ Roses and Avril Lavigne (pronounced La-vig-knee as far as I’m concerned) the selection of ‘EA Trax’ that make up Burnout […]
Tag: PlayStation 3
Wolfenstein: The New Order
MachineGames has turned the prototypical first-person shooter into a stealth-action-adventure game – with surprising results. I would have loved to have been in the room […]
Just Cause 2
The island of Panau is the perfect holiday destination – a place where anything goes, where the sky’s the limit; where the only thing keeping […]
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Raiden’s solo adventure might be cut from the Metal Gear cloth, but it offers a different slice of action to what we’ve seen before from […]
Music Monday: The Secret of Monkey Island
Inspired just somewhat by BBC Radio 6 music I’ve decided to make this Bank Holiday (at the time and in the place of writing) a […]
Thief
Eidos Montreal’s reboot of the Thief franchise is a tense, tactical sneak-a-thon for the most part – but it tries too hard to please everyone. […]
Music Monday: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
In issue 122 of the Cane and Rinse podcast Tony, Josh, Karl and I talk at length about Starbreeze’s touching Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. […]
Videogames: A value judgement
Units shipped, sales figures, review scores, profits, subscribers, Metacritic ratings, attach rates, awards won, active users, hours of gameplay, number of levels, top 100 lists, […]
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Few things are more comforting than the voice of Patrick Stewart. The fact that his narration is the first thing that greets you in Castlevania: […]
Music Monday: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
In the run-up to recording issue 115 of the Cane and Rinse podcast I’ve been playing a lot of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. There is […]
Joshua Garrity’s favourite videogame experiences of 2013
Josh takes a look at some of his favourite videogame experiences of 2013. Despite what the title might suggest, this isn’t a game of the […]
Music Monday: Shatter
New Zealand artist Module’s soundtrack for Sidhe Interactive’s spangly Breakout/Arkanoid variant Shatter cunningly and curiously managed to sound simultaneously retro, contemporary and futuristic. Such devilry. […]