Sleeping Dogs box art is striking, bold in its black and white comic book look.
I’m not a fan of the open world gameplay and worlds popularised by the GTA series. That’s what I tell myself, and here I am, enjoying the hell out of Sleeping Dogs, which is basically a by the numbers GTA clone. What’s going on here?
In terms of structure and what [...]
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Sleeping Dogs (PS3)
Sleeping Dogs box art is striking, bold in its black and white comic book look.
I’m not a fan of the open world gameplay and worlds popularised by the GTA series. That’s what I tell myself, and here I am, enjoying the hell out of Sleeping Dogs, which is basically a by the numbers GTA clone. What’s going on here?
In terms of structure and what [...]
Ridge Racer Unbounded
My favorite screenshot. I knew we had nailed the look at this point.
I’ve been working in the games industry for four years now at Bugbear and on the last day of March, my first game was released for the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the Windows PC. It’s a re-imagination of the fabled Ridge Racer series called Ridge Racer Unboun [...]
Dark Souls (PS3)
Dark Souls
I had to have Dark Souls on the PlayStation 3 instead of Xbox 360 because of the free multiplayer. (I gave up on Xbox Live Gold due to over a year of not using it.) This is surprising considering that there is little direct playing together with other people going on. I’ve played for over 30 hours and had one invasion where a [...]
Games of the year 2010
As usual, I’ve missed out on several “game of the year” candidates in 2010, only getting to them some time later, if ever. These include Red Dead Redemption (which I will get), Mass Effect 2 (will play), the new Call Of Duty (was it Black Ops in 2010? Not interested), Civilization V (not interested, never was into Civ beyon [...]
From the trenches
I’ve been playing quite a bit lately, but nothing in the lot has really ignited me enough to write about it. It does feel like a shame to not at least note down what these games are, if only for the fact that they’re worth playing.
007 Blood Stone
Bizarre’s possibly last game is a great Bond experience. It falls short of b [...]
What I’ve been playing this sum...
Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer
Brütal Legend
Alan Wake (Xbox 360)
Alan Wake finally came out and for me, it was well worth the wait. Top of the line storytelling all through, with unparalleled pacing and cinematic conventions. Great setting, great writing, great characters and good gameplay. It could have used a bit more variety in the [...]
E3 2010
I went to my first Electronic Entertainment Expo this year. Los Angeles was loud, slow and relatively cold, with only the rioting Lakers fans generating some excitement outside of the show. I don’t much care for the city. We stayed in Santa Monica, which is a lot nicer, but the over one-hour transits on the freeway to pretty much anywh [...]
Heavy Rain
Heavy Rain
The bar has been raised.
There’s been a lot of discussion on Heavy Rain. It’s deserving of all the talk.
Heavy Rain proves that A) you can actually do movie style, down to earth drama in videogames, and that B) the videogame part of the equation is valuable.
I have often wondered why there are no adventure games where y [...]
The best of 2009
My 10 best games of 2009
For the most of 2009 I spent my gaming time playing games from 2008 – Far Cry 2, Fable II, Rock Band 2, lots of cheap PSP & DS titles, Company Of Heroes, Dawn Of War (the first one) – but I thought it could be fun to put together a list of what was the best 2009 had to offer. For future reference, see [...]
Demon’s Souls
Demon's Souls
I picked up Demon’s Souls for the PlayStation 3 from the friendly guys over at GameStop Santa Monica while visiting LA a month ago. It’s the only game I was looking forward to import, because I reckon it’ll be a while before it sees a European release, if ever. I have since put in more time into it than with ma [...]
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