REVIEW: Valiant Hearts: The Great War

REVIEW: Valiant Hearts: The Great War

Publisher Ubisoft Developer Ubisoft Montpellier Review platform Xbox One Release date June 25, 2014 How many times have you respawned in CoD or Battlefield and given thought to your characters wife and child waiting at home, whilst you recklessly press forward into enemy lines, bullets raining all around you? Never? I thought so. When it … Read more

REVIEW: Outlast

REVIEW: Outlast

Publisher Red Barrels Developer Red Barrels Review platform Xbox One Release date June 18, 2014 How’s your heart? Good? Good. It won’t be for long. I hope you’ve got some old drawers on, you’ll be soiling them over and over again. It seems about time that indie games made their way to the fore of … Read more

REVIEW: Wolfenstein: The New Order

REVIEW: Wolfenstein: The New Order

Publisher Bethesda Softworks Developer Machine Games Review platform Xbox One Release date 19 May, 2013 I have a love-hate relationship with id Software. I love Doom, despised Rage, and had never played Wolfenstein. My first exposure to Wolfenstein as a series came from Raven’s Activision published Wolfenstein on the 360, and VERDAMMT, was it a … Read more

REVIEW: Sixty Second Shooter Prime

REVIEW: Sixty Second Shooter Prime

Publisher Happion Laboratories Developer Happion Laboratories Review platform Xbox One Release date 18/08/14 This was a difficult review to approach for me. As a rule I’ve devoted most of my gaming life to (often disappointing) AAA ‘blockbuster’ titles. I’ve only recently discovered the wonderful world of the ‘indie game’, and just how much fun these … Read more

REVIEW: Max and the Curse of Brotherhood

REVIEW: Max and the Curse of Brotherhood

Publisher Microsoft Studios Developer Press Play Review platform Xbox One Release date 20th December, 2013 I have a horrible confession to make: I only played this game because it was free. I had previously passed this title over because …it looked a bit childish to me… and I’d grown out of platformers… and it was … Read more

REVIEW: Murdered: Soul Suspect

REVIEW: Murdered: Soul Suspect

Publisher Square Enix Developer Airtight Games Review platform Xbox One Release date June 02, 2014 What lies beyond death? Do our eyes close upon this world and open in the promised utopia of Heaven? Perhaps there is nothing beyond the veil but eternal darkness. But what if nothing changes? What if we get up one … Read more

REVIEW: Watch Dogs

REVIEW: Watch Dogs

Publisher Ubisoft Developer Ubisoft Montreal Review platform Xbox One Release date May 27th 2014 First off, if any of you actually got the obscure 90’s reference in the title, then well done. You are my kind of people. Ubisoft have finally released the much anticipated (and much delayed) open-world hack-fest that has barely left the … Read more

REVIEW: Worms: Battlegrounds

Publisher Team 17 Developer Team 17 Review platform Xbox One Release date 30th May 2014 Worms fans rejoice, and don your helmets, the newest Worms game has back-flipped itself onto Xbox One, and we got ourselves a copy to review! I’d not played a Worms game since Worms Armageddon and always had fond memories of … Read more

REVIEW: Super Time Force

REVIEW: Super Time Force

Publisher: Developer Capybara Games Review platform Xbox One Release date 14 May, 2014 I have been psyched to play this game for quite some time. In the absence of boundaries, the internet, and a sense of social inhibition, Gunstar Heroes on the Sega Mega Drive became the cornerstone of my childhood. Its bright colours, quirky … Read more

REVIEW: Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition

REVIEW: Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition

Publisher Square Enix Developer Crystal Dynamics Review platform Xbox One Release date 31st January 2014 Tomb Raider is the fifth game developed by Crystal Dynamics, and is considered a separate entity to all previous Tomb Raider Games, it is the second game to utilise the Underworld engine. When we saw the trailer at E3, Lara … Read more