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Inscryption Review

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

Back4Blood Review

Despite a shaky beginning, Turtle Rock's cooperative shooter is a worthy successor to Left4Dead.

Blade of Darkness Review

After years trapped in licensing hell, the classic action-RPG is back. But does it still hold up in the days of Dark Souls?

Inscryption Review

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

October 27, 2021 | 12:05

Back4Blood Review

Despite a shaky beginning, Turtle Rock's cooperative shooter is a worthy successor to Left4Dead.

October 21, 2021 | 09:42

Blade of Darkness Review

After years trapped in licensing hell, the classic action-RPG is back. But does it still hold up in the days of Dark Souls?

October 20, 2021 | 09:17

Final Fantasy v Oblivion - RPG greats

Oblivion is one of the best RPGs ever to be released, with fantastic graphics and immersive gameplay. But how does it compare to perhaps the greatest RPG of all time, Final Fantasy VII? We break out the PlayStation and give you our thoughts.

June 9, 2006 | 10:40

New Oblivion patch will fix problems

Those who have been annoyed by issues with crashing whilst saving and loading may have some form of demonic saviour, in the shape of a new PC and Xbox 360 patch.

June 7, 2006 | 15:31

Sensible Soccer 2006

With the World Cup closing faster than an ice cream stand in January, Codemasters aims to break the FIFA-PES duopoly with a touch of old-school charm.

June 7, 2006 | 12:13

PS3 could ship with PS2 jammed inside

Problems making the super-complicated Cell architecture emulate the old PS2 hardware could lead Sony to jam a mini-PS2 into the PS3's casing for backwards compatibility.

June 7, 2006 | 10:36

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

Yesterday, NVIDIA launched the GeForce 7950 GX2 - billed as the fastest available single card solution on the market. It features a pair of G71 GPUs, a 1GB frame buffer, a HDCP crypto-ROM and it all fits into a single PCI-Express x16 slot. How does it stack up against 7900 GT SLI, 7900 GTX and X1900XTX?

June 6, 2006 | 18:52

Ubuntu v6.06 hits the web

Version LTS replaces the awesomely-named Breezy Badger as the latest distribution of the easy-install Linux software.

June 5, 2006 | 10:38

PS3 hardware could be hobbled

Slides from a Sony presentation to developers lay open some apparently ugly facts about the internal architecture of Sony's latest.

June 5, 2006 | 10:02

Gamers to get gold medals?

Gaming enthusiasts are holding talks with the Chinese government to try and get gaming included as a demonstration sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

June 2, 2006 | 15:14

Half-Life 2: Episode One is out today!

The hotly-anticipated expansion to 2005's best game is coming today. We can barely contain ourselves at the thought of all the headcrabby goodness.

June 1, 2006 | 11:10

Miyamoto talks Wii

The Nintendo legend clues us in on Super Mario, the image of gamers and the speaker in the Wiimote.

May 30, 2006 | 18:07

New FEAR patch

Merely weeks after the 1.04 patch, 1.05 is here, bringing two new multiplayer modes and two new maps. It seems that FEAR is never-ending...

May 30, 2006 | 18:06

Rock Pegasus 650 Dungeons and Dragons

What could be better than the combination of an MMO to suck away your life and a laptop so that you can play anywhere, any time? We take a look at this budget notebook from Rock.

May 27, 2006 | 08:56

Xbox games get a price cut

Top titles including Halo 2 get a price cut. Whilst new games are expensive on the 360, old Xbox 1 titles are now a bargain.

May 26, 2006 | 14:58

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is alive

THQ says the game will definitely. Ship. Before. April. Next. Year. Ahem.

May 26, 2006 | 09:14

Xbox 360 update coming

Microsoft is prepping a Dashboard update for the 360. The update adds new DVD, Dashboard and Live features.

May 25, 2006 | 14:36

Of Mice and Mats

We have three quite different laser mice from Microsoft, Logitech and Razer, along with a couple of mice mats designed with gamers in mind. Which combination will be the fragger's new best friend?

May 25, 2006 | 13:57

Wii is less than $250, may have microphone

A financial statement suggests that the Wii will be as cheap as we expect, whilst new documents point to DS-like microphone functions.

May 25, 2006 | 13:55

Square says no to FFVII remake on PS3?

Will they or won't they? After showing a PS3 tech demo of the PS1 classic, the speculation is rife.

May 24, 2006 | 13:43

Metroid Prime: Hunters

As PC and console gaming grow ever closer graphically, we investigate another kind of convergence: handheld games and grown-up PC genres. Metroid Prime: Hunters is proper FPS gaming on the Nintendo DS.

May 24, 2006 | 10:17

More new Elder Scrolls: Oblivion content

The Thieves Den has loads of additional bits and bobs for the cutting-edge roleplayer. Go grab it for less than a paltry two bucks for either PC or Xbox 360.

May 23, 2006 | 14:24

No Xbox 360 price cut

Microsoft has ruled out a slashing of the Xbox 360 price before Christmas, apparently because the PS3 will be more expensive anyway.

May 23, 2006 | 14:04

DS Lite gets UK release

Nintendo has finally announced a date and street price for its new handheld console revision, the DS. Nintendo fanboys rejoice!

May 22, 2006 | 15:27

Intel's Core Duo meets the desktop

What's faster than an AMD Athlon FX-60? Well, an Intel Core Duo overclocked on a fantastic AOpen board based on the 975X chipset. We get to grips with Intel's portable processing powerhouse in a desktop board and contemplate - is this a sign of things to come?

May 19, 2006 | 16:12