Part three of Splash Damages developer diary for the forthcoming shooter Brink is up. This time we have Senior Game Designer Ed Stern discussing the writing process and delving into the Ark – the man made floating island Brink is set on. Here’s a snippet: “At Splash Damage, we believe that a game’s environment is the best narrative medium we have....

The PSN is still down, with millions of gamers seemingly unable to connect, causing a a host of issues such as corrupted or broken downloaded games. The following statement from Sony was issued to us when we contacted them.“We have found out that some users are experiencing a network connection failure when signing on to PlayStation Network. “We are...

In the first part of this article we looked at some of the ways in which Mass Effect may have fallen flat or disappointed. But in part two we plan to set the record straight, Mass Effect 2 is a fantastic game brimming with good ideas and excellent writing. A few mistakes or missteps along the way don’t change that. As with the previous part of the article,...

Feb 18, 2010

This article is SPOILER-HEAVY, if you’ve yet to play the game, then go buy it and do so immediately. That is, unless you’re a PS3 only kind of person, in which case you should probably go and wallow in your bitter tears (or just replay Uncharted 2). Mass Effect 2 is a big game, in every sense of the word. In terms of content, it’s by most...

Today marks the beginning of open beta for Allods Online; coming from developers Astrum Nival, Allods is a highly polished free-to-play MMO. The game is a massively multi-player take on 90′s series Rage of Mages and sees the player joining the ranks of one of the games two warring factions, imaginatively titled ‘the League’ and ‘the...