Pathologic – review
It’s very difficult to know where to start when writing about Pathologic. I could just describe the plot – ”A strange illness plagues a town and the player works to cure it” - but that doesn’t really do it justice. It’s not Theme Hospital, that’s for sure. I could describe to you the gameplay; it’s More...
Upcoming Kickstarter projects to keep an eye on
On the February 8, 2012 a project was posted on Kickstarter, an adventure game to be developed by Double Fine. It aimed to raise $400,000 what it achieved was $3.3m! This could potentially bring a new era for video More...
Should you buy Devil May Cry?
I never played the original Devil May Cry games. To be completely honest, I’ve never been much of and hack and slash game fan. So it’s hard to compare the new DMC:Devil May Cry to other Hack and Slash More...
XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the best game you aren’t playing
XCOM was a franchise from the nineties that released its last game in 2001, around the time turn based strategy games started going the way of the dinosaur. Turn based games haven’t really had a good decade, More...
5 reasons you should buy Halo 4
Halo 4 has been a long time coming, the agonising years of waiting for every Halo fan will finally come to an end, 5 years after the release of Halo 3, Master Chief returns! This is the eighth instalment in the More...
Faster Than Light: A game everyone should try out
Faster than Light (FTL) is a spaceship management game, but don’t let that description scare you off. That is just the simplest way of describing this experience. In actuality it is a survival game, where you More...
Original Half-Life remake to be released on Steam
This Friday, after eight years of work, a team of amateur developers are set to release a fully updated free remake of the original Half-Life game. Often cited as one of the best games of all time, Half-Life was More...
Max Payne 3: Review
LSMedia Rating: **** I have been a fan of the Max Payne series ever since I rented the first game back in 2001, a game that was awarded a Bafta award it was so good. Why, I hear you ask, should a simple 3rd person More...
Tribes Ascend: The FPS you should be playing
The original Tribes games were something of a cult hit in the early Noughties, their mixture of frenetically fast paced combat, explosive action and a visual style reminiscent of Halo and Unreal Tournament More...
The Most Interesting & Thought-Provoking Experiences in Video Gaming
I came up with the idea for this piece whilst playing the new title Dear Esther (which features within if you don’t know what it is). Dear Esther’s appeal to me stemmed from my excitement to play something that More...