Tom Sykes

Tom Sykes

When he's not dying repeatedly in roguelikes, Tom spends most of his working days writing freelance articles, watching ITV game shows, or acting as a butler for his cat. He's been writing about games since 2008, and he's still waiting on that Vagrant Story 2 reveal.

Latest articles by Tom Sykes

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JU-ON: The Grudge review

By Tom Sykes Published

Will it make you hide behind the sofa?

Adventure
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Spaceball: Revolution review

By Tom Sykes Published

Watch this space. Then shoot balls at it

Puzzle Games
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The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road review

By Tom Sykes Published

We become friends of Dorothy

RPG
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MotorStorm: Arctic Edge review

By Tom Sykes Published

New environments, new platform, same dirty racing

Racing Games
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Dead to Rights: Retribution - hands-on

By Tom Sykes Published

Not exactly man's best friend

Action
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Fossil Fighters review

By Tom Sykes Published

The (fossilized) remains of the day

RPG
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra review

By Tom Sykes Published

Half the battle turns out to be all of the batttle

Action
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Spectrobes: Origins review

By Tom Sykes Published

The origin of (alien) species

Adventure
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Marvel vs Capcom 2 review

By Tom Sykes Published

When two tribes go to war… expect chaos

Fighting
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince review

By Tom Sykes Published

Measly wizard wheezes in a half-dead world

Games
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Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood review

By Tom Sykes Published

A massive improvement, although sans bible-powers

Action Games
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The Munchables review

By Tom Sykes Published

Om nom nom nom

Action Games
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CID The Dummy review

By Tom Sykes Published

A car crash of a game

Action Games
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Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings review

By Tom Sykes Published

Quick-time events. Why'd it have to be quick-time events?

Adventure
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Skate City Heroes review

By Tom Sykes Published

City of zeroes is more like it

Action Games
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Coraline review

By Tom Sykes Published

So-so movie tie-in with buttons for brains

Adventure Games
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Velvet Assassin review

By Tom Sykes Published

World War II stealth-'em-up inspired by real-life secret agent - supposedly

Action Games
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Steal Princess review

By Tom Sykes Published

Thieves never prosper

Puzzle
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Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times review

By Tom Sykes Published

Imagine if Voldemort finally got his snaky hands on Harry Potter – only instead of exacting his bloody revenge, he gave the boy wizard a lobotomy and sent him back to Hogwarts.

Adventure
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Worms review

By Tom Sykes Published

The worm has turned… up on PSN

Strategy
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Space Invaders Extreme 2 – import review

By Tom Sykes Published

It doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it does add shiny spokes and fatter tires

Action
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Fun! Fun! Minigolf review

By Tom Sykes Published

Blah for the course

Sports Games
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Family Glide Hockey review

By Tom Sykes Published

It's all relative

Games
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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time review

By Tom Sykes Published

You've got time on your hands. Just make sure it stays there

Final Fantasy
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Burn Zombie Burn! review

By Tom Sykes Published

Compulsive, score-racking, B-movie classic shuffles onto PSN

Games
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