Call of Duty 5: World at War Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Wii, DS, PS2 Normally, we’d start a review of a game like this with an explanation of the story – but today we’re not going to. There are two reasons for that. Firstly, this is World War II (again) and if you [...]

Columns: Over-Simplified Games How old are you? If you’re a typical gamer, you are probably much older than the mainstream media thinks you are. PC games used to be amusing little things played by kids while the parents did grown up things. Not any more, as the many web forum debates on how to juggle [...]

Left4Dead Demo Impressions Publisher: Valve Platforms: PC, Xbox 360 There’s a credit crunch on, so we’re told, and it’s forcing everyone to be perhaps a little more frugal than they might have otherwise been. So, y’know, it’s OK. Nobody holds it against you that you didn’t just blindly pre-order Left4Dead already, securing early access to [...]

Fallout 3 Publisher: Bethesda Platforms: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Here’s a quick and easy history lesson. Once upon a time, there was a company called Interplay that made some of the best computer games ever. One of its most well known franchises was the Fallout series, which was an isometric RPG set in a [...]

Far Cry 2 Platforms: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Here’s the funny thing about Far Cry; it was never all that great a game in all honesty, but that somehow ended up getting forgotten and it was the console expansions that got all the flak. Wow, I know – controversial, eh? It’s true though. Far [...]

Dead Space Platform: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 There’s an on-going discussion in the more pretentious corners of the Internet, where floppy-fringed journalists like myself are to be found constantly waging over one argument; are computer games an art form? I say yes, based on nought but the idea that they are a creative process [...]