Review: Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom
The penultimate guardian.
The Majin is everything that Ico’s Yorda is not. In Fumito Ueda’s classic, you lead the waif-like girl-child along a castle’s craggy ramparts, crying out to her to…
The penultimate guardian.
The Majin is everything that Ico’s Yorda is not. In Fumito Ueda’s classic, you lead the waif-like girl-child along a castle’s craggy ramparts, crying out to her to…
Schlock tactics.
Once upon a time it would have been bad news, perhaps even frightening news for videogame executives, but it’s a measure of how far we’ve come that these days the following…
Grrr! Grrr?
Would it be cynical to suggest that Rage for the iPhone and iPad feels like little more than a promotional piece for the upcoming PC and console game? Maybe it was the…
A Mobile Games Roundup special.
Yes, we’ve finally turned our Medusa-like gaze to Microsoft’s recently launched Windows Phone 7 platform, and donned our waders to stride manfully through the…
Tack and field.
Like most people, I don’t make sweeping generalisations. It’s probably fair to say, however, that no one wants to be treated like a human d-pad.
If Kinect makes you the…
Stupefied.
For 13 years I’ve been wishing that somebody would make a great Harry Potter game. Hogwarts, with its magical secrets and hidden nooks, is a setting made for interactivity; I’ve…
Fireball! Swing! Faery! Zen! Breed!
It’s hard to focus on writing right now. The pull of Pac-Man Championship Edition DX is just… too… strong. Namco has taken everyone by surprise with…
Gobblin’ king.
Well this certainly caught us by surprise. Remember how the original Pac-Man Championship Edition turned everyone into bug-eyed crazies for about four months of 2007? Remember…
Chimp off the old block.
Times is ‘ard, as we’re so often reminded. The newspapers are full of stories about how eight-year-olds will soon be charged 15p per times table learned, while…
Vocal chords.
SingStar Guitar’s intro video gives you an idea of how Sony intends it to be played. The camera arcs around a pair of blue and red virtual fretboards as the instantly…
Be kind, rewind.
High definition may be all the rage these days, but the recent rush of HD collections God of War, Sly Cooper and now Prince of Persia owes more to the unique way…
Motion dismissed.
In an age when videogame names are getting longer and rarely arrive without at least one colon, it’s good to see a title as brisk and instantly understandable as…
