Category: Another Look
How Capcom’s Springtime Strategy Has Led the Way
Where have all the Christmas games gone? They’ve all hopped off to enjoy the lucrative springtime calendar. Whilst gamers everywhere are left salivating for 2009’s…
Editorial: Embrace the Glitch
There must be few video games released with glitches left in intentionally. Last year’s Mega Man 9, for example, was full of the blighters. To…
Defence of the Ancients: A New Genre?
Have you played Defence of the Ancients? As the mod phenomenon for Blizzard’s classic strategy game Warcraft III continues to gain momentum, it’s clear that…
Spoony Bard 2: Action Games – Lose The Token Plot
The games industry seems to assume that the implied agency that comes from choosing dialogue options makes for a stronger narrative. Let me rephrase that:…
Dreamcast Retrospective: Ten Years On
The brief romances are often the most memorable; a first kiss, that college crush, and for many gamers, the first time they played the Sega…
World of Warcraft by the Numbers
A World of Warcraft player loves few things in this world more than numbers. Stats, gold, achievements, and phat stacks of loot: numbers drive serotonin…