Review: Bioshock Infinite
In August 2007 Ken Levine, via his studio Irrational games (then under the guise of 2K Boston) and the publisher 2K released Bioshock. Arguably one of the best games of the now ending current generation of consoles, Bioshock was a game with a distinct story to tell and enough deep and meaningful mechanics to tell that story in a new way. How many games have used the idea of logs and messages to tell a […]
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Trailer Watch 15th May 2013: Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Pokemon X and Y, Hellraid
There has been an inevitable lull in trailers this week, what with Microsoft’s XBox announcement/conference next Tuesday. That being said there are still some pretty interesting things coming out soon some of which have trailers worth watching. Techland are known for their ridiculously brilliant trailers. The announcement trailer for Dead Rising was brutal, in all of the right ways. It’s a shame that the game barely registered above a resigned ‘meh’. It’s refreshing, then, to […]
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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; […]
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Trailer Watch – Call of Duty: Ghosts, Saints Row IV, Killer is Dead
Every week I go around and watch game trailers, some are just awesome; others are awful but in this regular column I’ll guide you through some of the best, most interesting or worst trailers I’ve seen in the past week. Well, let’s just jump straight in with a trailer that is bat-shit insane but also pretty cool, Killer is Dead: Well, that sure was something. Those of you familiar with Grasshopper Manufacture and Suda 51 […]
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