Posted by Mary Goodden on February 14, 2012 ·
Hello, and welcome to GodisaGeek.com Vault Valentine’s Day Special. Today, we shall celebrate love in all its forms the only way we know how, by casting into our apocalypse-proof box ten video game couples who warm the cockles of our hearts and underthings from the [...]
Posted by Sean Smith on February 10, 2012 ·
As well as pretending to be Maradona down my local park – and by that I mean emulating his football skills and not shooting journalists whilst ripped to the tits on cocaine – my great love as a young man was playing videogames, something that has stayed with me through [...]
Posted by Lee Garbutt on January 13, 2012 ·
There is one single component of video games that is so important, that to remove it would render the whole medium useless: It isn’t graphics or gameplay, nor is it sound; I am of course referring to the ever present controller, for without the joysticks and pads we [...]
Posted by Team on December 9, 2011 ·
As this month’s edition of The Vault falls inside what is broadly defined as “The Christmas Period”, we thought that we’d change things up a little and enter our own favourite Christmas memories into The Vault. What you will encounter here may be [...]
Posted by Mary Goodden on November 11, 2011 ·
I’m not really a fan of boss fights, overall. They seem as much a hangover from arcade times as the “CONTINUE” countdowns that still haunt beat-em-ups. Too often, they seen more like an artificial way of increasing difficulty and consuming your tokens than [...]
Posted by Robin Parker on October 14, 2011 ·
There is a big difference between making a game intentionally funny and ending up with a gaming experience that makes players laugh when they really shouldn’t be. Many games might feature dialogue so cheesy or cliched that it makes us laugh., or the character design [...]
Posted by Martin Baker on September 30, 2011 ·
There have been a lot of games over the past God knows how many years that have had some amazing weapons in them, some of them have been futuristic, some of them historical, the only thing linking all of them together is that they’ve all been awesome.
Imagine an Assassin’s [...]
Posted by Mary Goodden on September 9, 2011 ·
The book of Revelation describes the Apocalypse as the complete and final destruction of all things. By this definition, it would be very hard to create a truly post-apocalyptic video game. How much fun could it possibly be to control a non-existent being in an empty universe [...]
Posted by Mark Bridle on August 12, 2011 ·
Right, let’s get one thing out of the way immediately. The following Vault Entry is a list of games that I tried to love but couldn’t. It is not a list of objectively bad games that I happened to hate. It would be very strange for me to actively try and love something [...]
Posted by Tony Windebank on July 29, 2011 ·
Let’s face it, we all have a strange fascination with horror. Whether it be a simple ghost story or a horrific being who enjoys ripping people’s heads off, we always manage to get sucked into the story, and are genuinely intrigued by the unexplainable and demented.
There [...]