Games

Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed Oh, what a difference the racing line makes. For me having it around means that I have a reliable way of judging my own driving decisions. Its absence makes me feel lost in an ocean of driving possibilities out of which I am only extracted by the sickening sound of crumpling against another concrete barrier.It does n...	10 April 2011 05:11 GMT

Crysis 2 Review When it comes to beautiful looking games, few developers can come close to the pedigree of German company Crytek, which is responsible for titles like the original Far Cry, Crysis or Crysis: Warhead.Now, the studio is back, with Crysis 2, the next installment in its first-person shooter, running on the brand new CryE...	6 April 2011 07:00 GMT

Homefront PC Review First-person shooters are becoming more and more numerous these days, with all new titles trying to achieve some of the big profits earned by Activision's Call of Duty or EA's Battlefield franchises.Homefront is the newest contender, coming from Kaos Studios and THQ, which tries to break the mold through an...	25 March 2011 08:00 GMT

Total War: Shogun 2 It is hard to review Total War: Shogun 2. The game is the second one set in Medieval Japan, focusing on the struggle between the clans for control of the title of Shogun. The game is the latest in a long running strategy series from The Creative Assembly that began about 11 years ago and has lately suffered from a ra...	22 March 2011 18:31 GMT

Dragon Age 2 Dragon Age 2 is a clear sign that, when it comes to the role-playing experience, BioWare is determined to innovate and not just iterate. Unfortunately, innovation is not always a good idea when it comes to a franchise with apparently established rules and the opinion of gamers will be divided on the changes that the ...	15 March 2011 08:29 GMT

Dawn of War II – Retribution If there's one race that always feels like it’s getting the worst of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, it's the Imperial Guard. There are a lot of them but most are badly trained, ready to flee at the first sight of xenos and easy prey for all manners of enemies of the Imperium. Dawn of War II managed to er...	9 March 2011 07:36 GMT

Bulletstorm First-person shooters are a dime a dozen these days, with such titles practically flooding the market and the consumer. As such, innovation is pretty much mandatory if studios want to create a shooter that will withstand the test of time and actually grow a loyal fan base. Bulletstorm is such a game, with the t...	28 February 2011 07:30 GMT

Test Drive Unlimited 2 Ibiza can be beautiful, especially late in the afternoon, when shadows lengthen and night sneaks in, almost begging the player to slow down a bit and take in the sight, maybe step out of the car with the misses and take a few pictures that will later wind up on Facebook and draw a lot of gasping comments. That's...	20 February 2011 17:01 GMT

Risky Wars It’s been a while since we’ve seen a good remake after a classic turn base strategy board game, especially one that you can play both on the PC and your mobile phone. Christian Gross is to be given a friendly pat on the back for pulling off Risky Wars, a modern version of the dusty old board game, Risk. ...	15 February 2011 19:01 GMT

Magicka It's tough being a wizard and Magicka, the new low-price innovative-concept action adventure title from developer Arrowhead Games and publisher Paradox Interactive, is just the game to show off the plight of magic wielders to unsympathetic players that have been relying on spell support in their role-playing gam...	8 February 2011 19:31 GMT

Influence How can one lone idea spawned in the mind of a genius or of a monster spread? How do the masses get converted, sometimes without even being aware, to the good and the bad ideologies that have sprung up throughout the history of humanity? There are a lot of theories, sociological, political and psychological, that see...	28 January 2011 20:11 GMT

King Arthur – The Role Playing Wargame: The Druids The developers at Neocore Games have delivered yet another point of view to the story of King Arthur, this one more concerned to the Old Faith and the old customs that seem to be dying under the assault of Christianity, Saxon rulers and a new order, where mysticism is banished and the heroes of old times are overcome...	19 January 2011 04:59 GMT

Swords and Soldiers Seeing as how the winter holidays have prompted a slowdown of new game releases, we decided to look at a lightweight downloadable title, Swords and Soldiers, coming from development studio Ronimo Games, the company that brought us De Blob. The title is a quirky "real time strategy" game, but don't expect to b...	10 January 2011 07:40 GMT

Europa Universalis III: Divine Wind It's hard to be loyal when it comes to video games. Much loved series disappear without a trace sometimes, taking entire genres with them. The industry shifts towards a certain pattern and pins its future on mostly first person shooters and MMOs, leaving fans of other concepts looking to smaller developer. Franc...	17 December 2010 19:51 GMT

Bejeweled 3 It’s been almost six years since the last Bejeweled and considering that it was a smashing hit during all this time, PopCap decided that it’s  time to raise the stakes even further with the new Bejeweled 3. Even World of Warcraft: Cataclysm has been specially rigged with a Bejeweled 3 mini-game, bot...	12 December 2010 12:01 GMT

Tron: Evolution Like any self-respecting entertainment company these days, Disney decided to celebrate the release of the upcoming Tron: Legacy movie with a tie-in video game, Tron: Evolution, which has been developed by the team at Propaganda Games. Set to act as a prequel for the action in the movie, featuring the likenesses of...	10 December 2010 06:30 GMT

Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit EA's Need for Speed franchise hasn't exactly been going through its most exciting period, as recent titles failed to keep the innovation going, and only last year's NFS: Shift managed to take the series back from the dead and give it some degree of success. Now, EA went all out with Need For Speed: ...	3 December 2010 07:00 GMT

Football Manager 2011 Football is huge, both in real life and in virtual space, and the best proof is not the existence of the hugely successful FIFA 11 from EA Sports, the game which sells fast and sets records every year, but the yearly launch of Football Manager, the management game from Sports Interactive and current publisher SEGA. I...	24 November 2010 05:29 GMT

James Bond Blood Stone 007 Activision is keen on keeping its James Bond franchise alive, and after 2008's Quantum of Solace, developed by Treyarch, the games publisher has just launched a new title with the famous British MI6 agent, entitled Blood Stone 007, developed by Bizarre Creations. While Quantum of Solace was a pretty decent ti...	12 November 2010 04:44 GMT

Lego Universe Whenever I mention the word LEGO I imagine myself stacking blocks of all types and colors and building robots and cars. Nothing compares to the excitement you get after you've built your own castle or race track and this is what makes childhood memories so enjoyable. Reviewing the early days of my youth I can c...	3 November 2010 16:31 GMT

Lionheart: Kings' Crusade It's hard for a real time strategy title from a little known studio in Hungary and a publisher which specializes in history accurate and complex game designs to make a real impact at this point in October, when the fall launch season is upon us gamers and reviewers and when Medal of Honor, the franchise reboot f...	31 October 2010 03:31 GMT

Civilization V I built the Pyramids with the Egyptians. I built The Louvre as the French. I defeated the Germans while playing the British faction and mastering the seas. I dominated the world from the Kremlin as Russia, with Siberia as my playground and industrial base. I fought something akin to World War II, playing as the Ameri...	14 October 2010 19:01 GMT

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light The Tomb Raider franchise isn't what it used to be, and the next generation hurdle really left a mark on the long running franchise as its main development studio, Crystal Dynamics, wasn't able to really deliver an experience that captured gamers like they once did back in PlayStation 2 days. Now though,...	11 October 2010 04:46 GMT

Darksiders PC Darksiders delighted PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 users at the beginning of the year with fun hack and slash gameplay combined with clever puzzles and a variety of different weapons.  Now, the game has arrived on the PC and its time to see if its console-specific gameplay has withstood the porting process and if ...	8 October 2010 06:08 GMT

R.U.S.E. It's hard to go back to World War II. I lost count of the number of times I stormed the beaches of Normandy, both as a lowly grunt in one of the landing ships, swimming to shore and assaulting pillboxes, and as a high level commander, preparing the orders for my men and hoping that the Germans are not too well p...	17 September 2010 06:40 GMT

Mafia II Long time coming Mafia II is finally here and, as promised, it gives players the opportunity to take on the role of a mafioso in the making and get an insight at what organized crime is all about. I know that 2K Games has been working on the tile for a long time so that it would be a crying shame for me to take the ...	8 September 2010 13:01 GMT

Victoria II Two weeks, broken up by a visit to Gamescom, is the time I've taken to review Victoria II, the grand strategy title from Paradox Interactive that focuses on the social and political change Europe and the world experienced beginning with 1836 and went on for about a century before the early days of the World War ...	29 August 2010 06:11 GMT

Burn Zombie Burn! Everybody knows gamers love zombies and Doublesix, the developers behind Geometry Wars: Galaxies, have attempted to capitalize on this strange affection with Burn Zombie Burn!. This is a downloadable title available only on the PlayStation 3 through the PlayStation Network and on the PC through Steam. It is a top d...	15 August 2010 08:01 GMT

Hearts of Iron III – Semper Fi Gamers are not renowned for their patience, their planning abilities, their attention to detail. Non gamers often think that video games are only first person shooters that teach us nothing and offer no clear skills. Well, I played at least one game that taught me World War II history, taught me how to plan ahead and...	13 August 2010 05:14 GMT

World Riddles: Seven Wonders Funny Bear Studios are back with a new casual puzzle game that follows the success of World Riddles: Animals, released last year. This time around they tried a different approach and decided to go with rediscovering the Seven Wonders of the World in a new, fun and very challenging griddles puzzle game. This reinve...	9 August 2010 07:11 GMT

Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Starcraft is back and it's as better as it was ten years. The overall world of real time strategy might have morphed, taking on a more tactical and role playing shift in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2 and a previously lost grandeur in Supreme Commander 2. But Starcraft 2 is not a game that innovation lovers wil...	30 July 2010 05:45 GMT

Disciples III: Renaissance The fantasy turn based strategy scene has been poor with releases in the last years. Other than an expansion to the controversial Heroes of Might and Magic V and the excellent King's Bounty remakes, there haven't been a lot of titles to choose from as of late.  The Disciples series is Strategy First�...	23 July 2010 11:16 GMT

Blacklight: Tango Down Blacklight: Tango Down is a downloadable only multiplayer shooter that aims to provide the online experience to be found today's triple-A titles for the lesser price of 15 dollars. This is a review for the PC version of the game, but unless I specify otherwise, everything I have to say applies to the Xbox 360 a...	18 July 2010 09:01 GMT

Singularity How old school can you still be when it comes to first person shooters in 2010 while still making a video game, which is appealing to modern players and can compete with the likes of Modern Warfare 2?This is the question that the people at Raven Software set out to answer while creating their latest original intellec...	9 July 2010 06:02 GMT

Fishdom 2 Playrix, the famous developer and publisher of puzzle games with titles such as Fishdom, Call of Atlantis, Gardenscapes, 4 Elements, Royal Envoy, has released the sixth title in the series of underwater match-three games: Fishdom 2. Even though the game will be available in two editions: Premium and Standard, only th...	28 May 2010 04:23 GMT

Royal Envoy - Rebuild Your Kingdom I'm convinced that by now, most of you have heard about Playrix Entertainment or at least have played some of their amazing games. From trademark names such as Fishdom or Call of Atlantis, many of you have become fans of these types of time management and puzzle games. So, here I stand giving you a small sneak p...	16 April 2010 03:56 GMT

Napoleon: Total War Any good battle opens with a cannonade. The key decision is whether to aim the fire at the artillery pieces of the enemy or whether to try and share their infantry units, destroying their cohesion and sapping their morale. Next, the two battle lines close, looking for geography features that can offer a local advanta...	2 April 2010 05:38 GMT

PhysTris – Tetris Revolution During the past couple of years, the gaming industry has been transformed by the advancements in video rendering technology and hardware support. It would seem that most titles rely exclusively on highly detailed graphics and design rather than creating fun and addicting games like the old school breakout or tetris.I...	23 March 2010 13:51 GMT

BioShock 2 Going back is never easy. There's heartache. You don't know if the old gal looks the same. You don't know who's been with her for the last ten years. You don't know what her beliefs are anymore.Rapture, to me, was very much the star of the first BioShock and I wasn't extremely excited to...	26 February 2010 04:10 GMT

Aztaka - The Untold Aztec Story Simply judging by the name of the game, you can assume what it is all about. Aztaka is just that, an Aztec-themed game that sets out the impression of a classic platformer and then proves to be a very challenging role playing game. Citeremis has surely made a great impression with this game especially that it's ...	17 February 2010 12:31 GMT