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Red Faction: Guerrilla - hands-on (Red Faction: Guerrilla)

Dec 4, 2008

Open world, powerful weapons, two-story mechs, and completely destructible environments – these are all things on our wish-list for how to make the ultimate shooter, and they’re also some of the key features in THQ’s upcoming third-person destructathon, Red Faction: Guerrilla. ...

Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena – hands-on (The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena)

Dec 4, 2008

Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay was one of the most visually stunning games to hit the original Xbox. It's also one of the very few movie based games that rocked. Given that gamers have been trained to expect sucktastic movie games, Escape from Butcher Bay was a surprising breath of fresh air. It built upon the mythos established by the films, gave us a meaty story and it was damn fun to play. ...

Wanted: Weapons of Fate (Wanted: Weapons of Fate)

Dec 4, 2008

Familiar with Wanted, are ya? Last summer’s blockbuster documentary about a secret society of bullet jugglers? We kid. Wanted centers on Wesley Gibson, a sad sacked shlub abruptly awakened from his 9 to 5 monotony to find out that he’s been blessed with the hereditary ability to curve bullets, deflect blades and generate all manner of mercenary mayhem. ...

Ghostbusters vs the Real Ghostbusters (Ghostbusters The Video Game)

Dec 4, 2008

When Atari's Ghostbusters games ship next year, it'll have been a mere 25 years since Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson first donned their proton packs for the big screen and "Who you gonna call?" was a national catch phrase. In that time there have been a number of videogames that attempted to bring the loveable foursome home, but none have really captured the core spirit of the films. Until now. ...

Cripes! Five Atari games you'll actually want to play (Ghostbusters The Video Game)

Dec 4, 2008

With ex-Sony man Phil Harrison on board and fingers in practically every gaming pie (thanks to distribution deals with publishers the world over), and a brand that everyone recognises, Atari has the foundations in place to become great once again. But, most shockingly, it's actually got some great games to back it up. Here are five games Atari were showing off that we reckon you're going to want to play. ...

Dragon Age: Origins (Dragon Age: Origins)

Dec 3, 2008

Since we last saw Dragon Age its name has gained extra weight. According to Bioware the Origins reference is twofold: both a nod to the company setting aside recent projects such as Mass Effect and returning instead to its Baldur’s Gate roots, and also a hint at the game’s opening hours. The first is exciting for all RPG fans, but especially for console players. ...

Ninja Blade (Ninja Blade)

Dec 3, 2008

Take two parts Ninja Gaiden, lame leather fetish and all, garnish with lashings of Devil May Cry, leave to fester until early 2009, and you have the latest action title from Japanese developers From Software, the familiarly-titled Ninja Blade. ...

Halo 3: ODST (Halo 3: ODST)

Dec 3, 2008

While Master Chief was off dishing out a beating to the Covenant on Delta Halo and High Charity in Halo 2, the Earth took a pounding from the Covenant while they set about digging up a Forerunner artifact buried in the African desert. It’s in the terrestrial side of the gap between Halo 2 and Halo 3 ODST is set, and in this gap the planetside war between UNSC and Covenant forces played out. ...

Battle of Atlantis (Battle for Atlantis)

Dec 1, 2008

Hold on: Another attempt to uncover the mysteries of Atlantis? And we thought Indy put that riddle to bed years ago. No, there’s very little mystery with this one – it’s a Command & Conquer-baiting RTS title with shades of Fracture thrown in for good measure. ...

8 things you didn't know about Wheelman (The Wheelman)

Nov 28, 2008

Mustn’t. Use. Any. Pun. Using. The. Words. ‘Wheelie’, ‘good’ or ‘time’. Phew. Now with all that bad punning in the past we can get onto telling you about Midway’s The Wheelman, which we got hands on with at an even in London recently. It stars Vin Diesel as Milo Burik, a driver who comes out of retirement to save a woman – these types can never just pack it up to Florida and play golf, ...

Rage (Rage)

Nov 26, 2008

Beautiful game engines for less than beautiful beasts roaming beautifully grimy corridors. From their birth in 1992, this has been the id way. Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake: grim, grimmer, grimmest. However, if up until now their artistic direction was based solely on Event Horizon, then Rage marks an influx of new DVDs onto the id film shelf. ...

ArmA II (ArmA II)

Nov 25, 2008

Will Operation Flashpoint 2 turn out to be a war hero or a disgrace to the regiment? After a day spent discussing and playing rival soldier sim ArmA II at Bohemia Interactive Studios’ forest-hemmed Czech HQ, it’s tempting to answer: who cares? Almost two years on from the release of the excellent (once patched and modded) ArmA, BIS are well on the way to completing a sequel that’s bigger, smarter, and more realistic. ...

Wanted: Weapons of Fate (Wanted: Weapons of Fate)

Nov 24, 2008

This is how you know you’re a badass: a rival faction of assassins boards the passenger plane you’re on, goes through the trouble of killing everybody on board, and then tilts the airliner toward the ground just to kill you. It’s flattering, really - but then, being a 24-year-old superassassin does invite some unique attention. ...

Bayonetta – first-look (Bayonetta)

Nov 21, 2008

As both a character and a game, Bayonetta is all about skipping the foreplay and getting straight to the climax – so we’ll make this quick. She’s a warrior witch who just happens to look like a porno secretary, and whose skin-tight leather catsuit just happens to be made of human hair. Not just any old hair, either, but her own supernatural beehive. ...

Resident Evil 5 – hands-on (Resident Evil 5)

Nov 21, 2008

Resident Evil 5 played us like a flute at October’s Tokyo Game Show, packing into two new trailers enough nudging references to keep fans bickering for months. Could Jill Valentine really be dead, as ‘evidenced’ by a briefly glimpsed tombstone? ...

Street Fighter IV – arcade review (Street Fighter IV)

Nov 19, 2008

When the last ‘proper’ Street Fighter came out, almost 10 years ago, it’s safe to say that the fighters had lost much of their appeal and the fanbase they enjoyed during their heyday of the early ’90s. Street Fighter 3 3rd Strike didn’t exactly make much of an impact, with old favorites Ryu and Ken joining a bunch of weirdos and misfits many people couldn’t care less about. ...

Halo Wars: Reasons to be cheerful, reasons to be fearful (Halo Wars)

Nov 17, 2008

The future of console RTS? We're still not so sure. ...

Mafia II (Mafia 2)

Nov 12, 2008

Released in 2002, the original Mafia was pretty much one of the standout games of that year. It offset its admittedly mediocre driving (1930s bangers + speed limits = major yawns) with top shooting and a plot that honestly wouldn’t have looked out of place alongside Oscar-winning underworld fare like Goodfellas. ...

So who the hell is Matt Hazard? (Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard)

Oct 28, 2008

The game's called Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. It's a third-person shooter. It's coming out on PS3 and 360 early next year. It's being made by Dead Head Fred developer Vicious Cycle Software. But who exactly is Matt Hazard, where the hell is he returning from and why should we care? To clarify the first two points, watch the video below. To find out if we should actually give a monkeys, keep reading after the movie ...

Call Of Duty: World at War - every mode played and previewed (Call of Duty: World at War)

Oct 22, 2008

Campaign, co-op and multiplayer, all given a thorough going over. ...