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The Book Of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles (PC) Review

Overall The Critter Chronicles was an enjoyable slice of point and click adventure. It has a warm heart and some lovingly realised characters. Ultimately though, much like the frozen desolate wastelands, the game feels too isol...

Xbox

Hitman: Absolution (Xbox 360) Review

Hitman: Absolution is another strong instalment into the franchise. It allows you to perfect the art of the kill before melting away into the background seamlessly as part of the crowd. To create chaos through the bluff of an a...

Hotline Miami Review

When you mix together the gameplay, the graphics, the soundtrack and the storyline, Hotline Miami stands out as one of the surprise hits of the year. It's the combination of these elements that makes for such a compelling body ...

Chaos On Deponia (PC) Review

The Deponia series may not resuscitate the point and click genre into mainstream popularity unlike The Walking Dead, but it serves as a strong reminder as to how good they were in the 90s heyday and how great they can be again.

Hacker Evolution Duality & Inception (PC) Review

In an age where gamers repeatedly complain about games being too easy, it's difficult to berate such a title for having a tough and unforgiving time bounded restraints, as well as a lack of care and consideration to genre newbi...

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DeadEnd Cerebral Vortex (PC) Review

DeadEnd Cerebral Vortex has some promising elements of gameplay thanks to its challenging alteration of the maze levels as you move through them, and is a strong example of the genre. But the lacklustre graphics, musical score ...

Xbox

007 Legends Review

A lacklustre attempt at mining the Bond back catalogue for the 50th anniversary celebrations. Gun play is sloppy. The AI is poor. The “fun” has been drained out of the scenarios and the game is so repetitive you’d be tempted...

Movie

Skyfall Review

All told the package hangs together superbly well. Every performance is superb but Judie Dench steals the show. The new villain is not as outright menacing as he could/should have been but this is a more realistic villain than ...

Shadow Of The Game (PC) Review

Shadow Of The Game starts off strongly, and carried me along with its infectious depiction of MMO gameplay before tearing down the walls to reveal a stumbling and stuttering plot and tone that jars heavily to anyone who isn't p...

Mobile

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Devil’s Attorney (Android, iOS) Review

Outside of the Angry Birds/Bad Piggies bandwagon, it can be quite hard to find a nice, simple, well constructed and brilliantly executed smartphone game to while away time in the waiting room or on the bus. Devil's Attorney how...