Magic The Gathering 2014 is the successor to the 2013 edition of the game, and seeks to bring the new Ravnica expansion to the playing field complete with new card types and new features. Campaign Mode The Campaign Mode follows…
Review by John Cranston Dead Island: Riptide sees the return of four survivors of a zombie apocalypse (and one other guy they found on a boat). Did they make it to safety? Nope. Did they get marooned on the island…
If you’re a PC gamer from the glory days you’ll remember the likes of Aliens vs Predator fondly ( or if you want to go back to the SNES days you’ll remember a laughable but playable side-scrolling beat-em-up ). The…
Review by John Cranston Paul Daniels. David Blaine. Sooty. All experts in the field of magic. But there’s one name that surpasses them – Richard Garfield – the man who invented the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, which has…
Review by John Cranston This week I learned “techno-thriller”, while sounding like the title of a Lady Gaga song, is in fact a genre of fiction largely populated by the works of Tom Clancy. With the release of Ghost Recon:…
Review by John Cranston The final instalment of the Gears of War trilogy was released by Epic Games in September this year and I’m finally writing about it. It’s testament to its quality that every time I’ve tried to sit…
As Christmas draws ever near, the time has come to enthuse about the latest wonderful gadgets you could be getting for yourself, or for your loved ones. One of these wonderful gadgets is the Xbox 360 “Kinect” attachment. If you…
Review by John Cranston “In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war” is the strap-line that describes life in the 41st millennium. Humanity, having expanded across the galaxy, faces destruction not only from within, but also…
Review by Johnus Maximus What happens when you’re part of a cabal of rebellious angels who try to defy god’s will and set up shop on Earth, creating a perverse tower of falsely-evolved humans? You get to face one of…
Review by John Cranston In the 23rd century humanity moves freely amongst the stars, it’s collective memories now stored in a vast network known as Eden. Scientists attempt to introduce Lumi, an artificial intelligence construct, to this database but inadvertently…