Review: Prison Architect Alpha
Introversion are back with a game that borrows as much from the Tycoon series as it does their previous offerings. The studio has a knack for finding a niche within a niche and after the glorious Uplink, bizarre Darwinia and mutually assured destruction of DEFCON, they’ve turned their attention to building games. From the moment Prison Architect starts, you can tell this is going to be something different: the tutorial has you building an execution […]
Categories: Gaming, Reviews, Videogames Tags: Alpha, Architect, Darwinia, Defcon, Introversion, PC Game, Prison, Prison Architect, Software, Steam, Uplink
Retrovued: Heavy Rain
After taking a look at the trailer for Beyond: Two Souls in last week’s trailer watch I got to thinking about David Cage and his studio Quantic Dream’s other projects. The studio itself is far from prolific, in fact, they have produced just one game for each console generation since the studio was founded in 1997. Their first offering was Omikron: The Nomad Soul. Released for PC in 1999 the game got mixed reviews at best; […]
Categories: Column, Gaming, Retrovued, Reviews, Videogames Tags: Beyond: Two Souls, David Cage, Dream, Farenheit, Games, Gaming, Heavy Rain, Omikron, playstation, Quantic, Quantic Dream, Retrovued, Reviews, Sony, Videogames
“Apéritif” S01E01 Hannibal Review
There have been many adaptations of Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon, the first novel in his Hannibal Lector series. Clarice Starling was running around in pigtails at this time and it was Will Graham, special investigator for the FBI, that we followed in that story. In the novel, Lector has been in prison for three years, and Will Graham is retired, recovering from being sliced open by Lector when he caught him. This adaptation isn’t really […]
Categories: Reviews, TV Tags: hannibal, jack crawford, lecter, manhunter, red dragon, S01E01, will graham
Catch Up Round Up: 02/05/13 – 08/05/13
A brief summary of what’s still available on Catch Up/On Demand from a pick of the previous weeks TV. All dates are as of Thursday 9th May 2013. Would I Lie to You? – Aired Friday 3rd May BBC1. Sadly only 2 days left. Run home now and watch, you don’t need a job. New series of the hilarious panel show. I know, I know, it’s another panel show, but it’s the king of panel […]
Categories: Column, Reviews, TV Tags: 10 O'clock live, 2 Broke Girls, Bankers, banking, catch up, Copper Bottom Band, Copper Bottom Blues, david mitchell, documentary, Fixing the System, Hugh Laurie, Jason Bradbury, Kat Denning, lee mack, Motor Morphers, on demand, Perspectives, WILTY, would i lie to you
“The Climb” S03E06 Game of Thrones Review
Warning: I’ve probably spoilt a lot in this review. Just when you think a show can’t surprise you anymore (like when you stupidly read the books beforehand – see last weeks review http://revued.net/index.php/kissed-by-fire-s03e05-game-of-thrones-review/), it jumps up and slaps you in the face. Joy, oh joy! Melisandre, then Gendry (no, not Gendry), followed by that meeting of minds, or rather balls, between Olenna and Tywin and to top it all off, the unholiest of betrayals, Ros. […]
Review: Don’t Starve
Don’t Starve is a beautiful son of a bitch. Unfortunately the emphasis is very heavily on son of a bitch. I promised myself after last week’s review of FTL I would pick a game to review that I actually had a chance in hell of beating and after hearing good things about this isometric survival game I decided to give it a go. I’ve already said that Don’t Starve is beautiful, this game has, when […]
Categories: Gaming, Reviews Tags: don't, Don't Starve, Game, Isometric, Klei games, Mark of the Ninja, PC Game, Reviews, starve, Steam, Survival, Video Game
Three Word Chart: 5th May 2013
Your at a glance guide to the UK Top Ten. Here at Revued, we like a challenge. In this weekly article we’re going to listen to the top 10 singles in the UK and review them in three words. If you’re lucky (and the chart is especially terrible) we may even offer a palette cleanser by way of a song that isn’t hateful. We also watched the videos so we’ll link those if Vevo will let us. […]
“The Crimson Horror” S07E11 Doctor Who Review
I’ve never been a massive fan of Mark Gatiss’ contributions to Doctor Who. He’s never written a travesty, but then he’s never written one that I’ve gotten giddy about. One thing I do know is that he’s at his best when comedy meets creepy, which is no surprise considering he is part of the trio that created the League of Gentlemen, that yardstick of the perverse. In Doctor Who’s latest offering The Crimson Horror, it’s evident […]
Categories: Reviews, TV Tags: Crimson Horror, Doctor Who, Doctor Who Series 7, Episode 11, Series 7
Retrovued: Community
Retrovued is a semi-regular feature where we implore you to try something you should have already. If you don’t have time to read this post, make sure you series link Community Series 3, Friday 3rd May 11pm on Sony Entertainment Television (Sky 157, Virgin Media 193). Series 1 trailer Series 3 trailer If you have been to visit our house in the past 3 months, chances are you have heard of Community. And […]
Catch Up Round Up: 25/04/13 – 01/05/13
A brief summary of what’s still available on Catch Up/On Demand from a pick of the previous weeks TV. All dates are as of Thursday 2nd May 2013. The Politician’s Husband – Aired Thursday 25th April BBC2. 15 days left. An enjoyable drama that I anticipate will get darker as the series goes on. Some flowery dialogue aside (they are politicians after all), this could be one to keep an eye on. Let’s just hope […]
Categories: Column, Reviews, TV Tags: Bailey, Column, Dispatches, Job Lot, Mail, Politician's Husband, Post, Reviews, Scott, Scott & Bailey, Scott and bailey, Sweat the small stuff, United States of Television, Vicious
