REVIEW: 'Spec Ops: The Line'

So I'm a bit late to the party. The hype for this game has been and gone - but I honestly prefer it that way since it allows me to look upon a work with a more open perspective. I'm not playing the game because I've been told it's incredible, I'm playing it because people told me it's incredible two years ago but have since jumped onto the next hype-train.

ARTICLE: Why 'Pay-to-Mod' is a Disaster

If you don't know, Valve recently - with little fanfare - added a paywall to the Steam Workshop, meaning there are certain mods you now have to pay for to use. Whilst it currently only applies to Skyrim, a game I've only recently started playing because I live under a rock on Mars, fans are already signing petitions asking for this feature to be removed.

REVIEW: 'Westerado: Double Barreled'

Lets face it: the Wild West is awesome. Alongside Feudal Japan, it's a setting that's just so effortlessly cool whether it's given the highbrow or the lowbrow touch. You simply cannot lose. Take any famously bad story, relocate it to the deep south circa 1880-1910 and it automatically has one redeemable trait.

RETROSPECTIVE: 'Half Life' AND 'Half Life: Source'

The FPS genre has many benchmarks. There were many early first-person experiments, then there was Doom, then there was Duke Nukem, then there was Quake...and then, on the seventh day, there was Half Life.

RETROSPECTIVE: 'Mirror's Edge'

 

With a remake in the works (because society has such a short memory that seven years is long enough to warrant a total reboot) I feel the time is ripe to discuss this fascinating failure. Yes: failure.