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Anyone that collected Panini football stickers will be familiar with Ultimate Team. Like the stickers, you have to save up all your money to buy a pack, desperately hoping for a shiny player, a proper goalscorer, not another Lithuanian left-back. And like stickers, Ultimate Team is structured around this addictive search for perfection, the search [...]

I’m a very conflicted RPG fan. I adore the epic storylines, the tactical nature of the battle systems, even the inventory micromanagement. However I have the attention span of a goldfish. This makes the great levels of patience needed in the early few hours of nearly every RPG very difficult to bear. So many of [...]

Whereas echochrome was about manipulating space, echoshift is about messing with time. But it’s not Braid. It’s not nearly as inventive with its time mechanics, for a start.
You don’t get to rewind time. You don’t actually get to do much with time at all, actually, which is a bit odd when considering that’s the main [...]

Before I begin, allow me to get something out of the way. I am a Sonic fanboy. When it comes to that little blue hedgehog I’ve been there, done that and bought several t-shirts. However, for years now I have been watching my favourite video game character slip further and further into mediocrity and I, [...]

Despite being the vaguest genre in our awards, they turned out surprisingly competitive. Here’s our picks for the best puzzle game of 2009.

We had a tough time culling the list of twenty great downloadable releases in 2009 to just five, then to just one. Find out our final picks here.

The Pixeljunk series has had an ever increasing quality level but can they do it for the forth time in a row? Read our review of Pixeljunk Shooter.

Xbox Live Arcade title, Star Trek D-A-C will be finally making the jump to PC and Playstation Network. Paramount Digital Entertainment have penned the title for a tentative release in November of this year.
These versions will come with two extra ship classes, a new mode along with extra maps. Probably not enough to make any [...]

I remember Bomberman Live had quite a buzz surrounding it’s release and was probably my most neglected Xbox Live Arcade release to date. Maybe I’ll have a chance to pick up the recently announced sequel, Bomberman Live: Battlefest.
Battlefest will add a bunch of new game modes, powerups, characters and the rest of the checklist for [...]

The problem with making a game online only is that it’s wholly dependant on servers and technical issues that are generally outside of the artists control. Fat Princess is an excellent case in point, it has a brilliant aesthetic and is packed full of artistic charm but has been marred by server issues and matchmaking [...]