Game: Super Street Fighter IV Developer: Dimps/Capcom Publisher: Capcom Available on: Xbox 360 and PS3 (reviewed on Xbox 360) There was a lot of hype and jubilation surrounding the release of the original Street Fighter IV as it almost single handedly reinvigorated the fighting game genre. Twelve months later and its younger brother, sleeker, stronger and packing more [...]

Game: Fly Kiwi, Fly!!! Developer: Hungry Game Publisher: Hungry Game Available on: iPod Touch and iPhone (reviewed on iPhone 3GS) OpenFeint has been called “The Xbox LIVE of the iPhone”, with it’s friends lists, achievements and leaderboards, but unlike Xbox LIVE, OpenFeint offers a free game of the day, every day.  It was thanks to [...]

Game: 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Developer: EA Canada Publisher: EA Sports Available on : Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii and PSP (reviewed on the Xbox 360) People used to scoff at the FIFA series, commenting how it was all bluster with little substance and whilst nobody ever questioned the graphical fidelity on offer [...]

Game: Heavy Rain Developer: Quantic Dream Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Available on: PlayStation 3 only Anyone who purchased the special edition of Heavy Rain will probably already have experienced the first of the (apparently) four chronicles to be released for this title, but those who opted to just buy the standard edition will have had [...]

Game: Splinter Cell: Conviction Developer: Ubisoft Montreal Publisher: Ubisoft Available on: Xbox 360 and PC (reviewed on Xbox 360, PC version available from 29/4/2010) Ah Splinter Cell: Conviction, the game that we have waited a lifetime for. Well, it seemed like it anyway! Ubisoft originally announced the game on May 23rd 2007 and, to put [...]

Game: S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call Of Pripyat Review Developers: GSC Game World Distributors: Koch Media Available on: PC Only Call Of Pripyat, the third installment of BitComposer’s S.T.A.L.K.E.R series has landed. Featuring mindless hordes of mutated monsters; grey, miserable weather; and a blighted landscape pitted with irradiated craters and the corpses of the fallen, it provides a [...]

Game: Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening Developer: Bioware Publisher: Electronic Arts Available on: PS3, Xbox 360, and PC (Reviewed on PC) Dragon Age: Origins won the award for best RPG in 2009 but whilst the core game has been a great success the DLC has been a little hit and miss. The Stone Prisoner DLC [...]

Game: Red Steel 2 Developer: Ubisoft Paris Publisher: Ubisoft Available on: Wii only (Wii MotionPlus attachment is needed) The original Red Steel had much hype surrounding it prior to its release alongside the launch of Wii back in November 2006. The trailers looked great and, Zelda aside, it was shaping up to be the game to have for [...]

Game: Plants vs. Zombies Developer: PopCap Games Publisher: PopCap Games Available on: PC, iPod Touch and iPhone (reviewed on iPhone) Tower defence? What is this, a new genre of games? I can’t think of anyone ever making a game like this before! Oh…tower defence, now I understand…oh God not another tower defence game. At least, [...]

Game: Sonic Classic Collection Developer: SEGA Publisher: SEGA Available on: Nintendo DS only Ah Sonic, the beloved blue hedgehog of the gaming world. Despite his more recent games being somewhat lacking in quality (Sonic Unleashed), the majority of gamers can look back at the Mega Drive/Genesis era and relive the blue hedgehogs good old days. [...]