My time with the Oculus Rift
In recent months a piece of hardware has caused a major stir in the industry, with people calling it, “The Future of Gaming” and “The Next big leap forward”.
How did they get away with that?
As we have seen with the announcement of the Nintendo 2DS, there are no limits to the lengths that some companies will go to in order to tap into a new market.
Franchise Wars: Episode 2 – Reckless Reboots
When it comes to video game franchises only a trilogy can provoke both the same en-mass mutiny from fans and blank indifference from prospective new gamers as a reboot can.
Stealth: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
There’s no feeling that satisfies quite like knowing you have just got away from something, and no genre of games puts that feeling to use quite as much as the stealth game.
Franchise Wars: Episode 1 – Annual Anarchy
From turbulent generation-defining trilogies like the meteoric Mass Effect to that loathsome-tinged mutter of ‘reboot’ regarding DMC: Devil May Cry, everyone has an opinion on "the franchise”.
Visual Obesity: How Graphics Killed Final Fantasy
I recently revisited Final Fantasy VI - that long cited 'alternative' hipster favourite of the series - before breezing through the light and fluffy Final Fantasy XIII-2.
Creating Successful Architecture in Video Games
There's a wonderful BBC4 documentary being broadcast on Monday nights, Dreaming the Impossible: Unbuilt Britain.
A Brief Future of Doctor Who Video Games
Doctor Who has never received the triple-A treatment when it comes to video games.