Ape Out Review
Gorilla radio.
Garage Review
Less fun than a bank holiday clearing out your own garage.
Furi Review
The boss rush game comes to Nintendo's Switch. Is it any good?
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.
March 12, 2010 | 09:10
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.
January 22, 2010 | 15:44
The Best Gaming Moments of 2009
Pull up a chair in front of the fire because it's storytime here at bit-tech as we look back on our personal favourite moments of 2009. From Mark's discovery of Samorost to Antony's pilgrimage back to Battlefield 2, check out our tales and tell us yours in the forums.
December 31, 2009 | 11:25
Top 10 Games of The Year 2009
It's that time of year when we take a look back on 2009 and decide what the best games of were. And by 'we' we actually mean 'you', since the results were entirely user-voted this year. What did bit-tech and Custom PC readers think was the best game this year?
December 23, 2009 | 08:34
Is Console Gaming Dying?
We love to obsess over whether PC gaming is dying, but now it's time to look at the other side and examine if console gaming is really as secure as publishers would have us believe. With casual gaming and the credit crunch on the rise, what does the future hold?
December 14, 2009 | 08:06
Professor Layton and Pandora's Box Review
We take a rare look at the Nintendo DS to try to crack the latest Layton game - a series of riddle-based adventure games that are worthy of even the most hardcore gamers. Can Pandora's Box match the enormous success of The Curious Village? We set out to find the answer!
October 4, 2009 | 11:06
Ultimate Game Chair Free Play Review
We take a look at the Free Play from Ultimate Game Chair, which attempts to make gaming better than ever but without breaking the bank. Has cutting the cost resulted in a dip in quality though, or is the Free Play really the ultimate gaming chair? We find out.
August 8, 2009 | 09:02
Top 10 Games Based On Movies
Games licensed from films get a bad rap and it's mostly well deserved, but there are some games which actually do a lot to expand on a movie without spoiling a franchise. No, we're not just talking about GoldenEye 64 either - check out all these other ones we've thought of!
August 5, 2009 | 10:56
Tales of Monkey Island Interview
We sit down for a chat with Mark Darin, the lead designer on the new Tales of Monkey Island series and all-round MI fanatic. We quiz him on why the series moved to 3D, what the secret of Monkey Island really is and whether or not he fights like a Dairy Farmer.
July 19, 2009 | 12:06
Tales of Monkey Island: Episode One Review
Joe steps into the long-absent boots of Guybrush Threepwood and sets out, deep into the Caribbean in the first episode of the new Secret of Monkey Island series, Launch of The Screaming Narwhal. Is it a fitting continuation to the legendary series, or an insult to all things piratey?
July 7, 2009 | 08:00
Guitar Hero: Metallica Review
Activision brings us the latest addition to the Guitar Hero franchise with a version of the game devoted to Metallica. Featuring almost thirty tracks spanning the career of the world's biggest metal band, we investigate to find out if GH: Metallica is the "One," or "The Thing That Should Not Be."
May 31, 2009 | 12:23
Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars
The Mushroom Men, bought to life by the passing of a strange meteorite, are going to war - and you've been caught in the middle! We take a look at this 3D platformer on the Wii to see if this is truly a game than puts the fun back in fungus, or if it's all a pile of rot.
March 21, 2009 | 09:13
Nintendo DSi
While it's been available in Japan for a while now, Nintendo is only just getting ready to ship the new DSi platform across the rest of the world. We've got a copy of the handheld to take a look at, so it's time to see if it's worth getting rid of your DS Lite or PlayStation Portable.
March 17, 2009 | 09:28
Chrono Trigger DS
Chrono Trigger is heralded as one of the best games of all time and was an early RPG success for Square Enix back in the day. Now, the title has travelled through time and space to land on the Nintendo DS. Does the classic still hold up though, or have our palates matured too much?
February 14, 2009 | 08:04
House of the Dead: Overkill Interview
We've been chatting with Sega recently, mainly about Grindhouse, Quentin Tarantino, and how much the Daily Mail is going to hate the new House of the Dead game. Just how controversial is this new Wii shooter? We put the question to Headstrong Games.
February 13, 2009 | 07:35
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