I wrote a question piece a little while ago asking where the place of violence was in video games in response to the few critics that jumped on Their Little Ponies and said that “Hey, BioShock Infinite didn’t even need to be violent!”. More often than not, these same critics had previously shouted praise at Tomb Raider and the love they felt for her because she was ‘vulnerable’ and ‘just trying her best’. Read More »
When I heard about Persona 4 Arena, the only things I really knew about it was that it was being developed by Arc System Works (the brilliant team behind the BlazBlue series). However, Arena turned out to be more than just an excuse to get my arcade stick out – it was a surprise present that gave me something new in a genre I’d felt had gotten almost too comfortable with itself. Read More »
It’s not every day that you get generalised under the blanket term of ‘mediocre’ by someone who created a game as insipid as Epic Mickey, but that might change if Warren Spector’s weekly column becomes a daily one. In a column attempting to address the problems with Metacritic, Spector has stumbled headlong into a multi-faceted fallacy of assumptions and half-baked thoughts. Read More »
My gut instinct told me that Remember Me wouldn’t be a good game; however, this reaction wasn’t based on feeling alone. After that first trailer delivered a line so poorly and so cliche in structure that it threatened my eyes to roll back so far in my head I’d be mistaken for a Magic 8 ball. Read More »
There have been a fair few articles popping up recently criticizing the violence in BioShock Infinite, claiming it was too excessive, or alienated you from Booker, or whether or not it had a place in the game to begin with. While I can find a few articles accusing Tomb Raider of slightly similar sins, there don’t seem to be any that go into the amount of depth that journalists have taken to with Infinite. Read More »
How does treasure-hunting sound? How does picking up a gun and searching through the remnants of humanity appeal to you? If it sounds good, it’s going to sound better free. To celebrate the release of Defiance, Dusty Cartridge has three copies of the game to give away! Read More »
Injustice: Gods Among Us held such great potential. It teased that the richness of the DC universe would be intertwined with amazingly brutal combat and a story laced with the philosophical musing that has been part of the human psyche since we stopped eating dirt – what would happen if there were actual gods among us? Read More »
After finishing games made by Ninja Theory, I find myself thinking ‘that was so, damn … close … to being perfect’. They completely nail so many aspects of their games that the small imperfections really start to shine, and it threatens to unbalance my whole review. Read More »
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