Aug 5, 2010

Virgin Gaming, the bizarre love-child of professional gaming, online poker, and marketing ingenuity, has partnered with Ubisoft to bring their future multiplayer games to the service. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is the first in the line-up, joining other supported games such as Halo, Madden, and FIFA. The service integrates with the...

Jul 26, 2010

Format: XBLA Unleashed: 28/07/10 Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Developer: Vector Unit Players: 1-4 (offline), 2-8 (online) Site: http://www.xbox.com/ Can a racing game have soul? The genre certainly fights an uphill battle. With emotionless heaps of metal zipping around tracks devoid of human life, there’s not a lot of room for charm. Yet...

Adventure game fans will get their first playable taste of Jane Jenson’s latest, Gray Matter, at this year’s GamesCom. Jensen is best known for her critically-acclaimed adventure series Gabriel Knight, and Gray Matter marks her long-overdue return to the genre. With companies like Telltale and Lucasarts revitalizing the genre for a new audience,...

Format: XBLA Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Developer: PlayDead Studios Players: 1 Site: http://www.limbogame.org/ Limbo doesn’t justify its worth the way that most games do. “Replay value”, “unlockables”, and “online multiplayer” are concepts absent from its vocabulary. Yes, it does...

Format: Xbox 360 (version reviewed), PS3 Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: Square Enix Developer: Cavia Players: 1 Site: www.niergame.com Nier is a strange, flawed, and fascinating game. It’s an action-RPG that could only come from Japan – with strange characters (a talking book and a girl whose bare ass is almost always in sight), some heavy...