Spaceteam

7 highly original app games you should check out right now

Bored of the same old freemium strategy games and endless runners? Then check out some of the weird and wonderful (but alway brilliant) games in this post! Badland A huge machine is crushing a fantasy dreamworld and its your job to help the world’s fuzzy little inhabitants escape. To do …

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12/02/2015
Chris Smith

Is Evolve the most original game of the year?

The idea behind Evolve, which is released tomorrow, is one almost as old as gaming itself: a team of human marines take on a big hulking monster with superpowers. However, Evolve presents one big difference: you get to play as the monster. It’s rare that gamers get to be the …

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10/02/2015
Chris Smith
Space Invaders

10 video game franchises that will never, ever die

Super Mario As long as video games exist, so will Mario. The little Italian plumber has starred in over 200 games (this article from 2012 suggests he was at 188), appearing in 6 last year and a whopping 9 in 2013. He’s already down for 3 games this year! So …

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04/02/2015
Chris Smith

5 of the greatest game trailers (that were nothing like the game)

Trailers are designed to convince us to splash our hard-earned cash on a product, and producers will go to great lengths to part us from our dough. Sometimes, they’ll even go as far as to produce fantastic trailers that bear little resemble to the finished product… Dead Island The Dead …

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03/02/2015
Chris Smith
The Saboteur

5 amazing games that were sadly overlooked

For every million-selling Call of Duty, FIFA or Assassin’s Creed title, there are 100s of other games that deserve much more attention. None, though, deserve more attention than the games in the post. Whether its due to poor marketing or bad timing, these are among the most underrated games of …

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20/01/2015
Chris Smith
birdman

January’s new releases

January is always a bumper month for new releases, with the year’s Oscar contenders (a few of which have been out Stateside for a while) finally hitting our shores and a lot of musicians making an early play for domination of the airwaves. Movies 1st January Birdman This tale of …

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02/01/2015
Chris Smith