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Review Overload Review

The spiritual successor to Descent is a fantastic shooter in its own right.

14-6-18 // 12:00p.m.

Review Cultist Simulator Review

An oblique and smartly designed narrative card game, Cultist Simulator is let down by a misguided real-time structure.

4-6-18 // 5:30p.m.

Review Machiavillian Review

Indulge your wildest horror movie fantasies, as long as they involve getting monsters to eat right and exercise.

17-5-18 // 12:00p.m.

Review Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Review

Obsidian's latest RPG is the biggest game it's produced in years. But does bigger mean better?

16-5-18 // 2:30p.m.

Review Minit Review

Two Minits to midnight.

9-4-18 // 5:00p.m.

Review Slay the Spire Preview

This deckbuilding roguelike game offers a unique experience but a flat endgame

27-3-18 // 6:00p.m.

Review Dungeon Keeper Review

EA's free-to-play shambles has left Rick (Dungeon) Heartbroken.

6-2-14 // 8:35a.m.

Review The Five Gaming Trends of 2014

2014 is set to be a stellar year in gaming and here are the five reasons why.

2-1-14 // 11:48a.m.

Review The Walking Dead: 400 Days Review

Telltale's writing is better than ever, but 400 Days suffers from a change of structure and an unsatisfactory payoff.

16-7-13 // 6:26a.m.

Review Hotline Miami review

Joe indulges his Miami vices, bringing us his review(s) of Hotline Miami.

30-10-12 // 9:18a.m.

Review How 9/11 Affected Games

We look back over how the War on Terror has shaped games from GTA III to Deus Ex and beyond.

12-9-11 // 7:44a.m.

Review The Baconing Review

The third title in Ron Gilbert's Deathspank series, The Baconing, has arrived.

7-9-11 // 7:43a.m.

Review E3 2011 News

Overwhelmed by the wealth of news coming out of E3 2011? Good job we're rounding it up then!

7-6-11 // 12:53p.m.

Review A New Golden Age of Gaming

We talk to Relentless and Chillingo to see how the mobile market is reshaping the industry.

1-6-11 // 7:50a.m.

Review The Bitmap Brothers Interview

Will we get Chaos Engine for the iPhone? We catch up with Bitmap Brothers MD Mike Montgomery.

27-4-11 // 12:25p.m.

The Bitmap Brothers Interview

Review A Death Worth Having

How do games handle the deaths of players, and how can these system improve? We mull it over.

7-2-11 // 12:18p.m.

A Death Worth Having

Review Critical Hit: Activision's Bizarre Decision

Activision recently decided to close Project Gotham developer, Bizarre Creations. We ask why.

30-1-11 // 9:53a.m.

Critical Hit: Activision's Bizarre Decision

Review My Game Dev Story

The founder of CardArts Studios apologises for the state of the games industry.

24-1-11 // 7:25a.m.

Review Indie Games of 2011

This year will be good for AAA releases, but what about the smaller developers?

14-1-11 // 7:34a.m.

Review Your Brain on Games

What are some of the positive effects that games can have on brain health? We find out.

10-1-11 // 10:18a.m.

Review Vote for your Game of the Year 2010

Which were your favourite games of the last 12 months? Let us know in our yearly vote!

1-12-10 // 1:37p.m.

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Review Winter Voices: Avalanche Review

We take a look at the first instalment in a new series of arty RPGs.

24-9-10 // 10:45a.m.

Review StarCraft 2 Review

StarCraft 2 has finally landed, and we've been stomping Zerg like never before!

29-7-10 // 7:14a.m.

Review Air Forte Review

Joe takes to the sky in an attempt to catch a flying, moustachioed octopus in Air Forte.

27-7-10 // 11:15a.m.

Review How Much Should DLC Cost?

Positech Games' Cliff Harris explains why DLC is a good thing and here to stay.

24-5-10 // 11:14a.m.

Review iPad Games Reviewed: Is it Good For Gaming?

Is it just a big, more useless iPod Touch, or is it genuinely good as a gaming device?

15-4-10 // 8:51a.m.

Review Gaming Podcast 12 - With Added BBC

Next on Made in the UK Week, Joe, James and Alex sit down for a new gaming podcast with a special guest from the BBC. The four of them muse over some of the best games to come from the UK, pausing only to give away some new prizes in the Guess the Screenshot competition.

8-4-10 // 11:30a.m.

Review The Best UK Games Ever

Next in our exploration of the UK games industry we take a look at some of the best games to ever come from the British Isles, from modern classics such as Tomb Raider right back to some retro gems. What are the games that the UK should be proud of?

7-4-10 // 10:44a.m.

The Best UK Games Ever

Review How Games Tell Stories

Games tell stories - but do they work as well as films and novels? How should narrative work in a game? And exactly how awful was Phantasmagoria? Valve's Chet Faliszek, Mirror's Edge's Rhianna Pratchett, Braid's Jonathon Blow and others offer their thoughts.

12-3-10 // 9:10a.m.

How Games Tell Stories

Review Rickets, Gaming and Righteous Fury

This morning, Metro, the UK's third largest newspaper ran a front page story with a headline clearly blaming gaming for a rise in a serious disease. We take a look at this wild claim, and what it has to say about the ways in which research and gaming are reported by the mainstream media.

22-1-10 // 3:44p.m.

Rickets, Gaming and Righteous Fury