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 »
The surface remains an uninhabitable, scarred monstrosity; a testament to the scary power at man’s fingertips. The air is a toxic cocktail of radiation and despair, as the terrain is tread only by the brave and bold, as well as the creatures left above to be warped by the harsh vicissitudes of nuclear fallout. Sadly, Moscow’s body died long ago, and in Metro: Last Light, the spirit has begun to rot also. Read More »
Battle Arena Melbourne (BAM) is Melbourne’s major in the Australian fighting game tournament circuit, and will be celebrating its 5th anniversary this year with an expected attendance of over 300 competitors. This weekend, competitors from all over the country will congregate in one place to test their minds and skills against each other in a grueling three day long tournament. Read More »
Before you go getting all excited over this expansion I’m going to knock down your expectations a peg or two. Dark Arisen commits nearly all the atrocities of its predecessor. Missions never venture away from the standard fetch quest, characters remain as monotonous as Entourage’s Vincent Chase and your pawns repetitive dialogue still encourages you to scalp their face and pour vinegar over the remaining flesh wound. 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 »
Both the Metroid series and the Crash Bandicoot series have instantly recognizable protagonists: Samus Aran is the gun-armed superheroine of the Metroid franchise and the eponymous Crash Bandicoot is the orange-skinned, “Australian” bandicoot of the Crash Bandicoot series. Today these two worlds, and their heroes, collide in a fight to the death. Let the games begin. Read More »
Star Trek betrayed the benefit of the doubt I extended to it by getting worse level by level, which in itself is a marvel. After each introduction to every inane segment, my initial thought was “This just has to be the worst part of this game. There’s no way it can go downhill from here.” Read More »
Hello and welcome to Episode 22 of the Dusty Cartridge podcast, also known as the worst podcast we’ve ever done. After a night out of free booze and fancy dining from the Lizzies 2013, the gang tries to sober up and chat about Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Remember Me, the Oculus Rift, all rumours regarding the ‘Xbox Infinity’ and much more! Read More »
