4 Dec, 2010

As the Gaming Wikipedia for my particular social circle, I spend half my waking lifetime responding to emails from friends looking for just the right gaming gift for their little and not-so-little kids. As a mother myself, I actually take this job pretty seriously; as a keen advocate of the PEGI system, you won’t find me recommending Resident Evil 5 or...

3 Nov, 2010

I can still recall the day my dad went out to buy our very first PC that came with a CD-rom instead of a floppy disc (wow, I feel old.) He told me I could pick out any game I wanted to, and so I went to browse the shelves. As I looked, my eyes came to rest on a double pack – The 7th Guest and its sequel, the 11th Hour. I knew nothing about either of them...

15 Oct, 2010

Do you think you know your horror movies ? Popular quiz-masters Scene It are posing the questions again in this quiz for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch and separate HD release for iPad). Including video clips they managed to get past the Apple censors this should test seperate the ghosts from the ghouls. Right up-to-date including questions from the (in my...

14 Oct, 2010

SEGA’s Sonic the Hedgehog series is one of my earliest and fondest gaming memories – Sonic 2 was a game my 8-year-old self had no qualms about screaming at his mother like a rabid, baying hyena to get his hands on – but in recent years it’s lost its way to a catastrophic degree. The problems started with Sonic’s inevitable shift to...

3 Oct, 2010

At just 16MB and the price of a couple of cans of Coke Rodent Rage is Worms style puzzle game for the iPad with a few interesting challenges and fun gameplay. The game is a Worms, Angry Birds, tanks kind of cross over which could be better described as Angry Rats. You play the role of Rodents in a grungy looking lab that have turned on their experimenters. ...

29 Sep, 2010

From Tetris to Bejewelled, the simple yet infectiously addictive ‘switch on and play’ puzzle game has always been a hit with the hardcore and casual gamers alike. It is in this respect that Vizati, the new game by ‘Different Pixel’, is bound to find a place in the heart of the puzzle fiends who walk amongst us, with its almost surreal, dreamlike...

28 Sep, 2010

The most important Sonic game of the past decade is speeding (sorry!) towards you as finally Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 has been both priced and dated. The game will be available for download on the iTunes App Store starting Oct. 7, the Wii Shop Channel on Oct. 11 (15th Oct in EMEA territories), the PlayStation Network on Oct. 12 in America (Oct 13th in...

9 Sep, 2010

As previously previewed Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has now been released for the iPad. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD is available for £5.99 from the App Store. For more news and information, visit the official Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars website If you end up playing this and get stuck in traffic, just don’t get any ideas. In the meantime...