I wouldn't want to work in advertising. Granted, my crippling cocaine allergy and possession of a soul might prove barriers to such a career path but there's more to it than that. I simply wouldn't know what do when tasked with promoting a ...

This January, I've been challenging myself to review games in less than fifty words. I've been writing one review a week, and while I've posted a couple of these separately, I've decided to hold the remaining two back and post them all at o...

Welcome to the second installment in a terrible, terrible series that ignores each video game character's achievements, strengths and personal struggles and instead measures them by their alleged physical attractiveness. Crossed half a wo...

One of the benefits of Kickstarter is that it provides an avenue for games that would never see the light of day and which would be hastily shot down by the brandy-swilling residents of your average boardroom.  Aviary Attorney is one s...

The Deed: The Deed is a short but extremely replayable murder-mystery, where the mystery is whether or not you'll get away with your heinous crime.  Every action you take or word you utter counts, so failure never seems illog...

According to UrbanDictionary.com, a white whale is 'something you obsess over to the point that it nearly or completely destroys you.'  The same site then goes on to provide several less savoury definitions for the same term, though ...

For the new year, I've decided to set myself a challenge. Way back in the mists of time, I used to write reviews for a now defunct gaming website. However, I've been trying to get back into writing and have for a while, been ...

Wondering what next year holds for gaming? Using my fool-proof divination methods - specifically, throwing darts at a bunch of X-Men trading cards that I found in the shed - I have sought to detail the path that gaming...

Unlike one former Russian worker,  Fallout 4 addiction isn't likely to be a problem for me. Not because I possess any measure of self control, but because as far as said game goes, I'm done. I'm still highly enamoured of the Fallo...

Dear Preston, It's not that I don't appreciate being granted membership of the Minutemen,  though I was certainly a little surprised.  I would have thought that my regular use of Jet, Buffout and an as-yet-unnamed Deathclaw deri...

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the apocalypse. I was playing Bethesda's Fallout 4, when I realised Dogmeat, the canine companion you acquire quite early on in the game, wasn't following me. I heard frenzied barking and realising...

Games can evoke a range of feelings: joy, excitement, sadness, frustration, anger, and even boredom, though I doubt many designers would actively court the latter. There have, however, been moments where the only semi-rational reaction to a...

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Statues is a veritable love letter to Doctor Who's 'Weeping Angels'. This indie horror borrows heavily from the show's 'Blink' episode, where the protagonists were pursued by the Weeping ...

I've had a long standing interest in all things zombie, ever since I watched a heavily censored cut of George Romero's Day of the Dead on grainy VHS. While I certainly wouldn't want to encounter a hungry vampire or a slavering werewolf, t...

It's easy to blame Stephenie Mayer for the ongoing pussification of vampires but the truth is that she wasn't the first person to depict vampires as being overly self-pitying. Anne Rice's 1976 book 'Interview with the Vampire' was chiefly r...

Harvester was not, by any means, a subtle game. Whereas Phantasmoria used gore relatively sparingly, reserving the more violent scenes for the game's last two chapters, Harvester was gruesome from the get-go. One of the game's full-motion ...

If I could only watch one film for the rest of my life, it'd be Memento. If I could only watch two films, I'd choose Memento and The Thing. Taking place in an isolated Antarctic research station, The Thing deals with an alien organism that ...

While The Park can be compared to other walking simulators such as Everybody's Gone To The Rapture, the thing it reminded me of most was Charlie Brooker's 'The Metaphor Dimension', an imaginary programme he created for his TV Go Home websit...

Phantasmagoria's release came as something of a surprise. Not just because it was extremely gory in places but because it was designed Roberta Williams who was previously responsible for the King's Quest series of fantasy games. It was the ...

The idea of letting players influence a game's storyline isn't a particularly new one, although the choices offered have typically been quite black and white. So you might fight your way through to the end of a game and, after defeating the...

Strange as this may seem, it used to be that the only time video games received mainstream press coverage was when they were being accused of corrupting the nation's youth. Take Splatterhouse 2, which attracted a lot of negative attention ...

I've been marking the run up to Halloween by writing a series of 'Halloween Flashback' blog articles, in which I take a look at older horror games. One game that won't be appearing in that series is Silent Hill 2. Not because it's a bad gam...

It's been a good few years since I last played System Shock 2 and, truth be told, I wasn't entirely surely whether to go back to it or not. Like many gamers, I had fond memories of the title, but surely it couldn't stand up to today's surv...

Before there was Alone in the Dark: Illumination , there was... Alone in the Dark. But before that, there was.. Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare. And before that, there was... Alone in the Dark. Confused? That's entirely understandabl...

Backwards compatibility is a funny old business. While many people assume that the current generation of consoles should be able to play previous gen games, that's rarely been the case. It's true that the first version of the PS3 played P...

WARNING: This review contains some rather gruesome screenshots. If you are of a nervous disposition and prefer looking at pictures of kittens, then I suggest you avert your gaze and seek another article.Just what is horror? Google's online ...

It's that time of year when the world is plunged into darkness and all manner of unpleasant monstrosities emerge from the gloom. A time when said hideous beasts extend their gruesome tentacles towards the lands of the living and drain peop...

t's often said that the brain is the sexiest organ in the body, but I'd like to suggest that it's also the scariest one as well. This isn't because it's planning on carving its way out of your skull and pursuing an independent existence â€...

The current fad for retro-gaming and retro-style gaming is, to me, a slightly puzzling one. I've been playing games for a while and wouldn't trade my PS4 for a Megadrive, Super Nintendo or any of the older consoles or computers, though I d...

It's surprising how some movies are given alternate titles when they are distributed to other English-speaking countries. Whether it's a case of some words not having quite the same meaning, or the movie execs underestimating the intellige...