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Phantasy Star is a series with a heritage every bit as long and grand as the JRPG behemoth that is Square’s Final Fantasy. With Phantasy Star Portable, the series sees its 18th entry. After making visits to the Dreamcast, Gamecube and Xbox 360 in MMO form it now lands on the PSP in the form [...]

The screenings room at Edinburgh Interactive 09 is packed out, standing room only. APB is probably one of the most eagerly awaited games of 2010 and most people are clamouring to get even a morsel of a look at what Realtime Worlds’ next title looks like.
APB is certainly an ambitious project – a pitched battle [...]

Every year, the crowd at Edinburgh Interactive sits and waits with bated breath to see who will win it’s coveted Interactive Innovation Award. It is a lofty award indeed but this year saw its most emphatic winner yet. Despite a list of nominees that just oozes innovation out of every single pixel there was one [...]

It is often said that everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame. Next week it will be Scotland’s turn as the annual Edinburgh Interactive Festival makes a welcome return to the games industry events calendar. It’s a growing event for everyone for everyone with opportunities from regular gamers to play the next big releases of [...]

Traditional videogames reviews look at fairly simple criteria. How does the game look? How does it sound? Does the control system work? Most games reviews work around these criteria and stick to them quite dogmatically. A few reviewers do add in extras like influences and storylines to add a bit more depth to the review [...]

Population control is not a concept that the games industry is familiar with. There are several genres that are beginning to look more overcrowded than a Mumbai shanty town. In theory this means that any new release in one of these genres has to work that much harder to single itself out from the rest. [...]

It’s been a while since I ventured onto the Xbox Live Marketplace with a view to buying anything other than the odd horse armour pack. But this is an entirely different story.

We get in a spin with some self-emulation of a emulation of the original film and try to decipher if The Godfather 2 is worth playing.

We are in the age of the video game nasty. What is happening to the games industry just now is comparable to the trouble that the film industry experienced around 20 years ago with films like Child’s Play. Of course, every generation needs a boogieman to blame it’s ills upon and that responsibility has fallen [...]

The original Dawn of War was an excellent recreation of the tabletop game and Relic look to improve on that excellent groundwork.