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Review: Dragon Ball Z – Ultimate Tenkaichi (PS3)

October 28, 2011 – 12:44 pm |

I really liked last year’s DBZ game, Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit 2. It felt like the franchise had finally achieved some serious attention with a game that was both deep and fun.
This year, we …

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Articles by Adam Englebright

Born into obscurity in a small village in the Home Counties, the child known as Adam Englebright lived a largely sedentry life, reading books, playing videogames, playing the piano and eating. He remains there still, lurking, watching, waiting... .

Sword of the Stars 2 ‘Engine’ trailer has big spaceships

September 28, 2010 – 4:14 pm |

Sword of the Stars 2, an upcoming 4X space game from Paradox and Kerberos set to be released sometime in 2011 has just had a teaser trailer released taking a look at the Mars 2 …

New Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 DLC ‘The Sacrifice’ out October 5th

September 27, 2010 – 2:13 pm |

Valve have announced that ‘The Sacrifice’, downloadable content for both Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 – which functions as a prequel to ‘The Passing’, following the survivors from the first game’s journey …

Tales of Monkey Island on sale for $4.95

September 19, 2010 – 11:41 am |

Once beloved of many online communities, Talk Like A Pirate Day has faded from prominence in recent years, many having tired of it, or forgotten. Not Telltale Games, however, who, until ‘tomorrow’ (the 20th, in …

Red Faction: Battlegrounds announced

August 16, 2010 – 12:17 pm |

After the discovery a few days ago that THQ has registered the domain redfactionbattlegrounds.com, speculation has abounded as to the nature of the project – but THQ have now revealed that it’ll be a …

Review: Singularity (PC)

July 13, 2010 – 3:08 pm | One Comment

I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked Singularity – Raven Software’s first original IP in over a decade, which looked good in trailers, but was led out to die by Activision, to the …

TF2 Engineer Update Fully Revealed

July 9, 2010 – 5:28 am |
TF2 Engineer Update Fully Revealed

So, I posted the other day that Valve are updating TF2, and the Engineer class in particular. Well, it’s all come out now. The Team Fortress site is now showing that the update is …

Team Fortress 2 ‘Engineer’ update announced

July 6, 2010 – 4:30 pm |

After rumours, wild speculation, and this rather interesting comic book, Valve have officially announced the Engineer update, which is “the largest single-class update ever” for TF2. It will include “new maps, items, achievements, and more”, …

Interstellar Marines: Running Man released

July 6, 2010 – 3:09 pm |

Interstellar Marines is fascinating to me; once you get past the super-generic name you find a game, nay, a trilogy, being developed with the Unity engine, allowing it to be run on browsers, but attempting …

Wire.vg is something you should be interested in.

June 12, 2010 – 8:37 am | 2 Comments

New, useful and interesting sites aren’t as commonplace as you might think, but I’ve found one in the form of Wire.vg, for those of you looking to be kept abreast of all the stuff that’s …

Review: Doctor Who: The Adventure Games: City of the Daleks.

June 4, 2010 – 6:08 am | 3 Comments

I wanted to enjoy this. I really did. This was the combination of two of my very favourite things: Doctor Who and videogames. It should have been like a cheese and bacon toastie. Alas, the …

Review: UFC Undisputed 2010 (360)

May 31, 2010 – 6:06 pm | One Comment

I’m not a ultimate fighting fan, or indeed much of a sport fan at all, but I was rather intrigued by UFC: Undisputed 2010. Last year’s UFC game from Yuke’s and THQ was very well …

Red Dead Redemption launch trailer

May 13, 2010 – 11:09 am | 3 Comments

Red Dead Redemption’s out in about a week, so with that in mind, Rockstar have released a launch trailer for their next opus. Looks like more awesome GTA-goes-cowboy action – I personally can’t wait! Red …

Doctor Vidic has an offer for you

May 5, 2010 – 12:43 pm | One Comment

Looks like Assassin’s Creed 3 is on the way! I got an email from a “Dr. Vidic” – you may remember him as the guy who oversaw your Animus sessions in Assassin’s Creed, with the …

Review: Splinter Cell: Conviction (360)

April 25, 2010 – 1:26 pm |

Splinter Cell: Conviction is a game with a rather troubled development, having gone through several iterations before reaching us in its present form. Some may see the significant changes between versions, along with the radical …

First Thirty: Splinter Cell: Conviction (360)

April 16, 2010 – 3:59 pm | One Comment

From the off, it’s clear you’re playing a game very different from any previous in the Splinter Cell series. Every other has begun with Sam Fisher infiltrating an enemy base but this game begins as …

Review: Assassin’s Creed 2 (PC)

April 12, 2010 – 5:16 pm | 2 Comments

The first Assassin’s Creed was a very interesting game: historical setting, third-person parkour action, and a plot that couldn’t have been sillier if it had been written by Dan Brown. I really liked it, despite …