It’s Finally Here. But Does Modern Warfare 2 Deliver?

It’s been talked about, speculated about and has fast become one of this year’s most eagerly awaited videogames, even being described in it’s launch trailer as “The most anticipated game of the decade”. Read more

MadWorld Review: Has Platinum Games Delivered the Gold?

With the addition of House of the Dead: Overkill to the Nintendo Wii’s library earlier this year it’s obvious that Nintendo are trying to broaden the collection of mature games available for their console. With a little help from their old nemesis, Sega, the Nintendo Wii welcomed MadWorld to its system, but has it stepped up to the marks? Read more

The History Of Sonic the Hedgehog - Part 1: The Beginnings of An Icon

Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the most recognised video game characters in the entire world. He’s been in countless games since he first blasted into our lives on June 23rd 1991, and will most likely continue to be zooming across our television screens for many years to come. Read more

Evil becomes a Resident in Africa, but is it here to stay?

Resident Evil is one of the most popular and intense survival horror series to date. The earlier games of the franchise is renowned for its ungainly gameplay, pre-fixed camera angles and ridiculously predictable plot lines. Read more

Outcry at Video Game BAFTAs

Any avid video game player would know that the Video Game BAFTAs took place on Tuesday 10 March. Read more

Gamers flock to grab a part of Resident Evil 5

Resident Evil. The name is synonymous when thinking about any horror game in the past 13 years. First seeing the light of day in 1996 for the Playstation One, Capcom’s series has gone on to ship over 40 million titles worldwide and created a vast fan base of followers. Read more

SEGA’s Megadrive Collection: Is It Really Ultimate?

For those who remember the Sega Megadrive, it’s hard not to fondly remember some of the classic games that came out for that console. Remember the thrills of zooming through the Green Hill Zone as Sonic? Or perhaps beating up some criminals on Streets of Rage? If the answers are yes, the recently released Sega Megadrive: Ultimate Collection may just be the game for you. Read more

Halo Wars changes the battleground

The ground is littered with the bodies of dead grunts whilst the hillsides have jakals tattooed on them.  Bits of a blown up ghost is left scattered over the ground after flying over a grenade and shattering into tiny bits of metal. Read more

Bond’s back on our consoles, but is he better than ever?

The new Bond film, Quantum of Solace, sees the resurrection of a coinciding game, adapted from the previous film – Casino Royal – and the current.

It’s the first Bond game since 2005’s From Russia with Love which saw Roger Moore take on 007’s likeness. Quantum of Solace comes from Activision, who bought the rights to publish the Bond games in September 2007.

The main thing on every Bond fan’s mind is that of whether or not advancements in gaming from the past three years has played a part in creating a more impressive game and the answer is yes.

The overwhelming popularity created at the hands of Call of Duty 4 – also published by Activision – helped in the decision to incorporate its Unreal engine into Bond’s latest adventure which provides a more advanced cover, aim and weapon usage system. Read more

Internet killed the video star

The Buggles once stated that video killed the radio star. Times have changed since the advent of the humble video; the internet has become a more popular source to watch films by fresh faced budding Spielbergs. We live in a time where the internet is killing the video star, and it’s an exciting new world.

YouTube has fast become the most popular medium for ‘ordinary’ people to get their voices heard and to produce films of their own, with a good chance they will be seen by hundreds, if not thousands of viewers. As a result, some new, YouTube directors have entered into the consciousness of popular culture, such as the haphazardly nerdy Star Wars Kid, who has been featured on ITV’s Moving Wallpaper and Emmy award winning satire South Park. Read more