games

Batman Arkham Asylum


Posted by Chris on 18 Jan 2011 / 0 Comment


Over the Christmas period there’s usually some spare time between the Turkey and drink to get some gaming in. This year I picked up a copy of Batman, Arkham Asylum for my Xbox 360 and I’ve completed it. Played it straight through. Here are my thoughts…

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Machinarium


Posted by Chris on 14 Dec 2009 / 0 Comment


A while back I chose Machinarium as my Pick of the week. A pick that was put my way by our exalted intro music guru, Paul. Machinarium is a good old fashioned point and click adventure. The time-old story of boy robot tragically split from girl robot by nasty police robots and the quest to be re-united. So why is this game worthy of pick status? Quite simply because it’s gorgeous, exceptionally well realised and just plain cute and funny.

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Trials HD


Posted by Chris on 14 Sep 2009 / 3 Comments


With the dirth of good games appearing on the Xbox platform for many months now, it’s great to see some people developing pick up and play titles for release as Arcade titles. These aren’t the usual run of the mill conversion of pap 8-bit games that should long have been dead and buried, they are games that have had love, attention and oodles of technical skill applied to them. Trials HD is a great example.

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Space Invaders Infinity Gene


Posted by Ian on 04 Aug 2009 / 0 Comment


As mentioned in this weeks podcast, Infinity Gene is a great game for the iPhone but who would have thought Alphabeat would work so well as a soundtrack for a level? (Sound quality is awful unfortunately so turn up the volume to hear it properly.)

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