Fair play to Sony’s Santa Monica Studio for keeping us God of War fans happy until the latest chapter in Kratos’ ongoing stuggles appears (hopefully in 2012). This is the second bundle of GOW… games to be spruced up for the next gen. console, this time from the original PSP titles. Like the first collection,

Back in the early part of the century in the heady days of the PS2, two games really stood out in terms of graphics and originality, 2002’s Ico and Shadow Of The Colossus…, four years later. The good folks at Sony have seen fit to release both of Fumito Ueda’s titles in one collection,

We all knew FIFA 2012 …was going to be different, but the replacement of former Sky Sports pundit Andy Gray with a combination of ex-Arsenal beanpole Alan Smith and one-time Irish captain Andy Townsend isn’t the only change to the latest edition of the beautiful virtual game. No siree: the developers in the EA studio

Another year, another epic battle against the Chimeran hordes, as the latest instalment in the Resistance… franchise hits the PS3. For the first time, players are not taking on the role of super-solider Nathan Hale, but instead play his killer, Joseph Capelli.
The action begins in 1957 Oklahoma, with Capelli and his family part of

Unlike football supporters, rugby fans have been starved of virtual versions of the oval-ball game in recent years. In fact, not since the heady days of Jonah Lomu Rugby on the good ship PSOne have rugby aficionados had a game to rival the FIFA and PES …titles of this world, so the prospect of rugby

When the love of his life is kidnapped by Fleming, the six-eyed lord of demons, the wonderfully named Garcia Hotspur (wasn’t he a marauding full-back from River Plate?) descends to the underworld in a bid to win her back.
The plot may be as hackneyed as a love triangle in a soap opera, and yet…

The sequel to an 11-year-old PC game, Alice: Madness Returns… is a visually delicious, dark fairytale adventure, based loosely around the writings of Lewis Carroll, albeit with a decidedly Tim Burton-esque sense of the grotesque.
You play the part of Alice Liddell, a disturbed orphan, undergoing years of therapy since her family were killed in

At this stage, the Harry Potter franchise is as powerful as Dumbledore’s wand, which makes it immaterial how good the video game (of the movie, of half the last book) actually is: it’ll still sell by the shed-load. That said, the good folks at EA wouldn’t like to be associated with a dud, and it’s…

Two years after the original inFAMOUS… introduced us to electrifying anti-hero Cole McGrath, it’s time to charge up your superpowers for another turbo-charged action adventure. The good news: Cole still retains his ability to fire electric bolts at enemies, which is handy, as there are plenty of bad guys intent on his destruction. The game

After the genius of the Indiana Jones and Star Wars …games, it was perhaps inevitable that Captain Jack Sparrow and his motley crew would be given a LEGO makeover, and while it’s enjoyable, this game doesn’t quite live up to the exquisite standards set by its predecessors thanks to one rather clunky plot mechanic –

An ingenious puzzle game which will test your grey matter more than your reflexes, Portal 2 (the original game was part of the Orange Box, along with Half Life 1 & 2…) is an experience like few other you will have on any console. Your mission, essentially, is to guide your character though

Anyone expecting Catacombs Mark II on Cass McCombs’ fifth album will find themselves a little disappointed. OK, so he has Ariel Rechtshaid, with whom he created that wonderful album, back on co-production duties, but Wit’s End …has an altogether more laid-back, horizontal feel than its illustrious 2009 predecessor, and there’s nothing as immediate or as

The first Dragon Age game, Origins…, was so successful, there was always going to be a sequel. The fact that it can be credited with winning a new generation of fans over to the RPG genre speaks volumes for its quality, in terms of gameplay, plot and sheer addictability. While the second game isn’t

Imagine an album that combined the beauty and fragility of The XX with the catchiness and raw power of early-to-mid period Radiohead (i.e. when they used to write choruses). Now throw in some Cure-esque basslines, deliciously off-kilter rhythms and simmer with a splash of heavily distorted shoe-gazing. Bliss indeed. Even better is the fact that…