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Scratching That Japanese Itch

The Japanese video game market isn’t what it used to be, and there are numerous reasons for this but 5 consecutive years of declining video game sales...

Some Funny Yet Pointless Websites

Let’s face it, we’ve all done it, there’s no denying that we have all spent many hours of our lives on some truly pointless websites. And...

JRPGs – Is It Time To Get Changed?

After yesterdays rather peculiar announcement by Square-Enix about Final Fantasy XIII-2 ...stars dressing up in Prada’s Spring/Summer ’12

Top 5 Sequels We Want

The gaming industry is filled with sequels. Some sequels (rarely) that we want, while others are the yearly sequels that are expected and loathed. Those...

Game Changers

Peripheral makers are long aiming for their crazy contraptions to become a game changing invention. Sure, the Wii Fit Balance Board and the Guitar Hero guitars...

12 of the Best/Worst Printed Game Ad...

Who remembers the days of opening a magazine or newspaper and seeing a hilarious and somewhat un-PC advert for a gaming product. We’re talking...

Why Is North American Box Art So Bad...

Alright, thats a sweeping generalisation, but it’s also quite true. We all know that films, games and books all get different covers and treatment...

Playstation Vita Rooms – A Persona...

Coming out of 2011 we saw the birth of Sony’s PlayStation Vita, the long requested successor to the ageing PSP system of 2004. Released recently in Japan...

An Ode to the Cheat Code

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a; no that isn’t a garbled message, nor is it a reference to a Deftones or Mouldy Peaches song, it is of...

Welcome to 2012!

Hello and welcome back to the site, we hope you’ve had a fantastic Christmas and a drunken start to the New Year- I can verify that many of the staff did. It’s...

Red Dead Redemption - DLC Myths and Mavericks

That DLC Problem

Downloadable Content has become for gaming what bonus features has for DVD film releases, essential if you want to confirm its success. If a game doesn’t...

Zombies, Why Does It Have To Be Zomb...

A quick glance of this years Video Game Awards and the games revealed will show you that not one, but three, Zombie games will be on their way to you over the next...

The VGAs: A Viewers Perspective

Videogames have had a turbulent past with the mainstream; for years they were eschewed by the vast majority of people, seen to be anti social and a waste of...

Getting Fit – Playing Games: Wed &...

Wednesday Morning: Really realised the games room is too small for Move Fitness. While many of the sports activities work perfectly, some; which involved...

NSFW: You Are Dead!

Aside from lag, very little is more frustrating to a gamer than to be partway through a mission or quest and to die. Having to backtrack and start over is painstaking,...

Getting Fit – Playing a Game: Tues...

Like most things I do, I get bored after the first day – my terrible attitude made me skip my morning workout – which i regret. I got to work at early o’clock,...

Getting Fit – Playing a Game: Mond...

My first day is complete, it all started pretty well – I think: 6.45am: It’s morning, the seagulls are squawking and people are banging around the house...

Getting Fit – Playing a Game

I’ve set myself a hard challenge, to get fitter and lose weight playing a computer game. I’ve chosen to do this playing Move Fitness, a game for...

Nottingham Celebrates the Hero of Ti...

Saturday 29th saw me take a long train journey to a part of England I have never even thought about visiting in the past. Nottingham. No, this wasn’t for some...

Cynic Critic: God of War Collection ...

God of War... is a franchise that is loved my millions; it did so well on its original PS2 release that it’s now become a staple franchise for Sony. It spans across

One Lucky Valve Fan

Well one lucky Valve fan got given the present of a lifetime when he sent the team a picture of his home made paper headcrab from Half Life and Half-Life 2. As...