Disciples III: Renaissance

Giants, dragons, unicorns gather, agree to fight on grid… It’s hard to find a more ridiculous target I.Or your medieval weapons of war than some poor player’s unicorn-filled fancy town. But that’s not an over-the-top scenario for Disciples III. The game rubs the best parts of gothic fantasy with a fine-grit sandpaper, delivering a world [...]

FINAL FANTASY XIV

Some slick new tech marks Final Fantasy’s return to online… It’s been nearly seven years since a Final Fantasy game made its way to the PC. When FFXI, the previous MMO in the franchise, was released in 2003, we gave it an Editor’s Choice award for its “beautiful 3D world, deep character system and innovative [...]

STARCRAFT II: WINGS OF LIBERTY

As release looms, we test out a trio of new campaign missions… On my last visit to Blizzard’s office,  I played the first seven missions of the StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty campaign. Each had a unique gimmick, such as rising and falling lava, that made it a unique experience. This time, I returned to [...]

Xbox 360 Kinect: Connecting to The Kinect

Kinect made its appearance in June this year at E3 2010, the gaming world’s most popular expo. The concept and the experience were so interesting that you couldn’t help but fall for the device. And let us tell those gamers who hate to leave their couches—it’s time to jump, twist, turn, run, bend, exert, run [...]

Transformers War for Cybertron Review

A True Transformer Cybertron turns a game into a franchise… Most video games based on movies are mediocre cash-ins. The developer High Moonbucks that trend with Transformers: War for Cybertron, which is not only as excellent Transformers game but an excellent game, period. It actually ignores the Michel bay movies and instead takes ideas from [...]

New XBox 360 Kinect: XBox 360 Slim

XBox 360 Slim, Now has N Wi-Fi; 250GB Storage; Black and Shiny Exterior… The PlayStation 3 did it almost a year ago , and now the Xbox 360 has followed by slimming down and getting a new look – one  that’s rather similar to the old PS3, curiously enough. The result is a very impressive [...]

World of Warcraft Cataclysm: A lot more is changing than you expected

A lot more is changing than you expected… The weirdest part of watching Blizzard reinvent World of Warcraft? Just how deep and how bold some of the design decisions its making are. Blizzard isn’t not just providing new quotes, new landscape and new dungeons for their 11 million players,it’s radically redesigning how its game works [...]

PlayStation 3 Move Bundle: We Like to Move It

Motion-control , 3D and all the Sony news from E3… Sony’s PS3 had a comparatively quiet time of it at E3, the games expo that also saw the lunch of Nintendo’s  3DS and Microsoft Xbox 360 and Kinect. Its motion controller , the PlayStation Move, officially lands in the UK on September 15, but we [...]

Nintendo 3DS Review: Next-Gen Gaming Guide

Into The 3rd Dimension! Nintento’s 3DS: The big leap forward for portable consoles? The DS has already had three “looks” : the original; the slimmed-down, tarted up DSi and the lanky Luigi to the original Mario, the XL.The 3DS, however, is something else. The headline feature – 3D graphics without the need for glasses – [...]

The Lowdown OnLive : Online Nex-Gen Gaming

Online next-generation gaming with no console required… What is This? OnLive is an online gaming service that ultimately aims to lets you play any game on your home computer, regardless of how powerful – or not – your home computer happens to be. In development for eight years, it was announced in 2009 at the [...]