If you had told a 14 year old me that physics was fun, I would have probably hit you over the head with a bag full of Magic the Gathering cards; it was one of my worst subjects at school. However, the likes of Half Life 2 and many indie puzzlers have proven that not only is physics fun, it can make for some of the mos
WB Interactive must look enviously across at Ubisoft as yet another annual Assassin’s Creed is churned off the assembly line. How can we possibly make something like that? Perhaps we could farm out our biggest fran
I imagine that Pac-Man has a rich baritone. He is a man who has seen things; George Clooney would play him in the film of his life. You have to be a certain age to date Ms. Pac-Man, or as rumor has it- become Ms. Pac-Man. Either way you are at least in your 20s. Not according to Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventu
Both Lost Planet and Lost Planet 2 were flawed games, but had something charming about them. The first game was a solid shooter with a main character called Wayne, which was enough for me to enjoy it. The second incarnation excelled as a 4 player co-op ex
Shambling, incoherent, messy, boring, lifeless, limp, smelly, decayed, all these words can be used to describe Zombies, but also Walking Dead: Survival Instinct. A game so poor, that if I were locked in a room surrounded by the undead with only this to play, I would open the door and open my arms to the sweet mercy of death.
As another generation of consoles draws to an end, we can start to reflect back over the past few years and decide which games where the best of the generation. For me, one of the stand out titles was Bioshock, a game that took the FPS genre by the scruff of the neck and scared the heebie-jeebies out of it. The underw...
Playing Crysis 3 on the PC is asking a little too much, my rig struggles to cope with a particularly intense game of Minesweeper. Therefore, to taste the third game in this techno FPS series I had to play it on the humble 360. I have played all the games in the series on Microsoft’s aging Behemoth and I have to ...
As part of or Co-Optimus remit we are sometimes asked to review games that contain no co-operation at all, hence our Beyond Co-Op reviews. As a gamer I often play single player games, so reviewing them is rarely a chore. That is unless you ask me to review a game that can be considered the antithesis of co-op - an onl...
