REVIEW: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

REVIEW: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Publisher Activision Developer Sledgehammer Games Review platform Xbox One Release date 4th November 2014 First of all I would like to put this out there: Like many of my gaming friends (cue The Inbetweeners ‘thumbs up friends’ meme), I had long grown weary of the game that Call of Duty had become. Up until EGX … Read more

REVIEW: Sunset Overdrive

Publisher Microsoft Studios Developer Insomniac Games Review platform Xbox One Release date October 31, 2014 Wow, where do I start? At the initial reveal for Sunset Overdrive, I was less than inspired. A CGI trailer, purporting to show gameplay, emblazoned with goofy, cartoony graphics, heavy on style, without even a smidgen of grimdark in sight, … Read more

REVIEW: Rocksmith 2014

REVIEW: Rocksmith 2014

Publisher Ubisoft Developer Ubisoft Review platform Xbox One (also available on Xbox 360) Release date 4th November 2014 Full disclosure – I’m a lapsed guitar player and Rocksmith helped me shake of my rustiness and play with a degree of my old capability. The original Rocksmith was a wonderful piece of software designed to teach … Read more

REVIEW: Turtle Beach XO Seven Headset

Publisher Turtle Beach Developer Turtle Beach Review platform Xbox One Release date March 2014 XO Seven -by Turtle Beach – RRP £129.99 From well-known audio experts Turtle Beach come the XO7s. Currently the premier end of their wired offerings on Xbox One, these headphones originally caught my attention as I wanted something a bit ‘nicer’ … Read more

REVIEW: Polk 4Shot Headset

REVIEW: Polk 4Shot Headset

Publisher Polk Developer Polk Review platform Xbox One Release date March 2014 4Shot – by Polk – RRP £139.99 This Headset is made by Polk, a premier audio company, and are billed as very high quality headphones. I’d been very excited about getting these when they first released back in March 2014. Back then they … Read more

Retro platformer Extreme Exorcism to haunt Xbox One in 2015

Retro platformer Extreme Exorcism to haunt Xbox One in 2015

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: Indie publisher Ripstone has announced it’s bringing yet another eccentric indie game to our beloved Xbox One. Golden Ruby Games’ Extreme Exorcism pits you and up to 4 local players in spooky 8 bit arenas, tasked with exorcising waves comprised of various ghosts and ghouls, culminating in challenging boss … Read more

EA Access

EA Access

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: Electronic Arts recently held its ‘financial conference call’ looking for investors on the second fiscal quarter of next year. During that meet Electronic Arts then went on to announce that the EA Access service on Xbox One is being considered huge a success by the company. The news came … Read more

REVIEW: Disney’s Fantasia: Music Evolved

REVIEW: Disney's Fantasia: Music Evolved

Publisher Disney Interactive Studios Developer Harmonix Review platform Xbox One (also available on Xbox 360) Release date Oct 24 2014 If there are two areas of gaming that have taken a distinct fall from grace in the last few years, they’d be ’Kinect Games’ and ’Music Games’. Both had a hugely successful start and a … Read more

REVIEW: The Evil Within

Publisher Bethesda Developer Tango Gameworks Review platform Xbox One Release date Oct 14th, 2014 This is a tough one to review. I’ve been a fan of Shinji Mikami’s brand of horror from Resident Evil to Dino Crisis, and knowing Bethesda had handed Mikami a blank cheque to raise survival horror from the dead, my interest … Read more

REVIEW: Forza Horizon 2

REVIEW: Forza Horizon 2

Publisher Microsoft Studios Developer Playground Games & Sumo Digital Review platform Xbox One, Xbox 360 Release date 3rd October 2014 First of all I want to apologise. This review is somewhat late. When I started to play this game the day before the UK launch, I realised after only a couple of hours I couldn’t … Read more