The Tom Clancy books have provided Ubisoft with many high quality intellectual properties, which have become a huge success too. One of those franchises is based solely on a world of espionage and plenty of plot twists. The Splinter Cell series started a few years back in 2002 with a start on various platforms such [...]

At a Sony presentation given during the GDC conference in San Francisco the long awaited name for the Sony motion controller has finally been announced. Finally outed as PlayStation Move the new controller will be sold in various bundles as well as a stand alone peripheral. Priced at $100 for what Sony termed as ‘The [...]

With an eventual Metacritic score of 86 Battlefield Bad Company was met with mixed reviews when it released in 2008 and with the die-hard fans of the Call of Duty series keeping those rose tinted glasses on, it was hard for Electronic Arts to push through and win over the critics. However those gamers that [...]

Blue skies soar overhead as the view pans down to focus its attention on a lone train peacefully making its way through a breathtaking mountain landscape. Aboard the train a PSICOM soldier patrols, keeping an overbearing eye on a group of cloaked prisoners currently being escorted to the floating cityworld of Cocoon. However, such peace [...]

This month’s Game Plan feature should actually be called March Madness, as it’s absolutely packed with quality titles all vying for your hard earned cash. Battlefield Bad Company 2 from Electronic Arts kicks the month of strong with that mad cap bunch of renegade soldiers returning to our consoles. Whether the game will live up [...]

Having survived the murky depths of Rapture in 2k Games’ original Bioshock title, released back in 2007, it still stands out to me as one of the most pivotal and distinctive titles recently released. With its atmospheric underwater setting and incredible plot twist, it was probably no surprise that it has since become the recipient [...]

Nintendo have today held their European Media Summit in London and released information including release dates for everything that Nintendo fans in the territory can expect to see from the Japanese developer this year. Most noticeable are the dates for Super Mario Galaxy 2 as well as Metroid Other M receiving a Q3 2010 release [...]

On the 19th of February I went along to a private event hosted by Koch Media for Prison Break: The Conspiracy, a game based around Season 1 of the hit U.S. TV show from Fox Networks.
Now if you are not familiar with Prison Break the TV show then let me give you a brief run [...]

Dante’s Inferno is Electronic Arts latest hack n’ slash which is based on Inferno which is the first book of Dante Alighieri’s poem: The Divine Comedy. But the question remains how good is a game based on a poem?
As you can probably guess you will be playing and controlling the character of Dante throughout the game. The [...]

It was with great anticipation that I headed to London this week to be able to get some hands-on time with Remedy Entertainment’s highly anticipated title Alan Wake, set to release on Xbox 360 in just a few months. Originally announced back at E3 in 2005 the game has been in development for six years [...]

Disney Interactive have released 16 new screens today for their arcade racer Split Second which releases this May. Split Second will not only feature some of the fastest racing action on today’s modern consoles but will also feature totally destructive scenery in a movie like set. The screens released today show the Downtown area of [...]

Quantic Dreams long awaited title arrives

Is Bioware’s Epic sequel worth the wait

I’ve seen the phenomenal opening cutscene to Square Enix’s latest Final Fantasy title plenty of times now, having imported the Japanese PlayStation 3 version released back in December. However, this time around it was an entirely different experience for me. Not only was I seeing this entire opening section with English voice-over for the first [...]

The internet has been a hive of activity the past week since Peter Molyneux revealed that a design decision regarding Fable III would upset fans of the previous titles. “They’re going to get super pissed off, they really are,” he stated, before stating it was “absolutely the right thing to do.”
Whilst we may not be [...]