One of the greatest pluses of Apple’s iOS as a gaming platform (alongside its cheap price points and simple delivery system) is the ability to find quixotic little oddities that would struggle to find homes anywhere else. Enter Vetica. A
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After a week’s break between the end of the demo and the release of the full game, the addiction has set in again. The single player campaign has been completely ignored for the multi-faceted, frenetic warfare that comprises the online
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There has been a trend over the last six months for sequels to take the promising first stab at a new franchise and improve upon it very successfully, whether that be Assassin’s Creed 2 taking an original premise mired in
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Although it was never quite going to match up to the Modern Warfare 2 juggernaut for sheer depth, Digital Extremes’ multiplayer component for BioShock 2 feels like a missed opportunity. It introduces some innovative features that really lend it its
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Set in the submerged, dystopian city of Rapture and championing the power of the self over the collective, the original BioShock proved that game developers could take literature as its chief inspiration and still craft a fun but mature game
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Five years before Rare took him out of his Arwing, gave him a staff and plonked him into an unlikely 3rd-person action adventure game, Fox McCloud landed on the Nintendo 64 in a remake of the original SNES classic Starwing,
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I got a staggering amount of games for Christmas. More games than I will reasonably get through for a number of months, particularly as the first quarter of this new year is absolutely packed with triple-AAA titles that I wont
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I always thought the Ratchet & Clank series was aimed at the younger market, saturated as it is with Saturday morning TV aesthetics, despite having never played any of its numerous instalments. Bright, bulbous visuals apart, I was mistaken –
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The trouble with first impressions is that they can often be misleading. Gameplay mechanics can sometimes still be a little alien to players new to them. Pacing and action elements can be chaotic and confusing in such a tightly scripted
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The beauty of the digital distribution services available on the current crop of games consoles is the ability to revisit some classic titles from yesteryear without scouring eBay for the original console and the game you wish to play. The
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