I’ve disliked the way the Playstation 3 has been handled by Sony for a long, long time. It’s one of the main reasons why, unlike my fellow writers, I’ve been standing firm on not getting one (although God of War III will be my personal tipping point). One of my major gripes was that Europe...

MPs don’t get a fair shake of the stick when it comes to videogames. They’re all beyond the age of the typical gamer, the 33 year old male, and when they think of games, they tend to think about Pong, Tetris and Space Invaders. Of course, there are exceptions to the rule: Keith Vaz, long due for...

Remember when the Wii came out? Cast your mind back, and remember the amount of people that threatened (or indeed launched) lawsuits against Nintendo for the cost of repairing/replacing their TVs. The strap that snapped became a problem for Nintendo, and they released two fixes; one was of course the...

I am a self confessed Mass Effect fan, as has been demonstrated in the GamesAreEvil Show Pilot. I have the Collector’s Edition of the game, and the book which detailed why Anderson was never chosen for the Spectres. So, with Mass Effect 2 getting to the point where it can be shown to the consumers (at...

(This article republished with permission from our kick-ass sister site, The Portable Gamer.) Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars was meant to be a massive hit. It goes back (somewhat) to the old days of Grand Theft Auto, having a top-down view (albeit isometric rather than true top-down) rather than a Third...

For us British Gamers, it is a cruel life. We get games later than everyone else (even sometimes those that are across the Channel in mainland Europe), and until recently, we were consistently paying over the odds for games that would’ve cost half the price had we bought it somewhere else. But in...

Sony has been going through some rough times this generation, and things certainly are starting to look up for them. With exclusives worth ranting about finally coming out in good quantity, and with a potential system seller on their hands at the end of this year, they are bolstering this run of good PR...

Death, when in the context of games, is a mechanic that at it’s core is meant to be a punishment for failure. After all, if you’re laying waste to massive numbers of enemy troops, be it in Real Time Strategy games or the myriad of Shooters that have come out lately, there really is no better way...

Re-releasing games is nothing new. Sometimes it’s just something as simple as a re-press with a new edition number on the spine of the CD or DVD. Other times, it’s a full re-hash, with new graphics, features, materials and more. Despite all the additions, it’s still the same game, and...

Release: Mar 3 2009 (US), Mar 6 2009 (UK) Developer: Ubisoft Bucharest Publisher: Ubisoft Genre: Flight Combat A while back, I did an impression of the demo of HAWX, a flight game that is sizing up no competition whatsoever, other than the 2007 game Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation. This can be found here....