At the end of every year we get a new year – one that is numerically superior to its predecessor and brimming with new stuff to buy. But how do you know what to buy if all the shiny “best of” awards are given at the end of the year? You could spend your precious 365.24 days reading game reviews, but what are they compared to shiny metallic awards?
Way back in January, we did what a lot of other tech and gaming websites do, and published a list of predictions for the then-new year. In this case, we predicted the games that we thought – for a variety of reasons – wouldn’t see the light of day until at least 2010, and published it under the somewhat inflammatory headline No Heavy Rain until 2010?
May tends to mark the last blockbuster month until summertime. For the bargain hunters among you, that's good news on last winter's hits and misses. But if you're jonesin' for new games, you could do a whole lot worse than these to cure the summertime blues...
Some games just never stand a chance, do they? Hated on from the moment they’re announced for a variety of reasons, they’re critically stoned by journos and gamers long before anyone lays finger on pad. The following titles all fall into this category of pre-release hatred. Whether they betrayed their series’ heritage, alienated PC gamers or their developer simply shouted his big fat mouth off too much; these games loved
Game developers can be a pretty rude, crude bunch when they want to be...
What was the best role-playing game of the last 12 months? We analyze the seven strongest of 2012 and ultimately pick one of these unforgettable adventures as the greatest RPG of the year...
Brother versus brother, fanboy versus fanboy...
When the hero's mistakes end the world instead of saving it.
What better way to celebrate Halloweek than with a Photoshop frenzy of brains and bile as we zombify some of gaming's best loved characters. Be warned, however, some of these images are a tad graphic, full of weeping sores, rotting flesh and exposed rib cages, so don't go getting disturbed for life over these. Promise? Good.