Dawn of War 2 – first impressions

I'm quite picky when it comes to RTS games. They all require you to manage lots of units and the controls to do so are always limiting. If I'm going to manage an army I need to be able to see loads of the map so I can plan, and be able to select individual sections of that army easily. ...


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Evil in Games

Evil in games is one of those delightful topics that doesn’t seem to be discussed quite nearly enough. This isn’t the evil that inhabits Shaylbridge Cradle in Thief or the evil that unleashed the forces of hell in Doom 3. The evil that is at the heart of this article is the evil in you the player. The evil that ...


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Indie Review: Use Boxmen

Greg Sergeant spent three weeks on a game he'd interestingly titled "Use Friends". He changed it to "Use Boxmen", which doesn't quite have the same ring, but the mechanic is the same. It's a platform puzzler; there are thirteen stages that get harder and harder, and the movement of your blue box man is really smooth and satisfying as you ...


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Far crying out loud

The explosion hits hard, looks like the jeep couldn't take any more punishment. I'm alive, just, but in the middle of an open road and bleeding heavily. Need to get behind some cover. A few boulders are a tiny sprint away, they should do. Someone shouts then everything is muffled. What happened? Have I been hit? Can't hold my own ...


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Sims-based Shenanigans

Right, now that I've signed the dotted line to write for Gaming Daily (in blood no less... Craig has the strangest demands), it's time I put my cards on the table and come completely clean in the spirit of no secrets between us - myself the contributor and you the slightly disinterested reader: Despite being a 25 year old, red ...


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I’m a cleaner – Mission 7

Skip Muldoon - A fat ship captain of a steamliner currently cruising the Mississippi river. He has an entourage of bodyguards with him - 7 guys in fact. They all have guns. Big guns. I need to kill the lot. 6 guys, plus their captain, on a ship, causing as little commotion as possible. The tranquil river lazily meanders below the ...


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Digital Demons

Today's column concerns the ease of purchasing games over the internet, and the difficulty in visualising how much something costs in the bigger picture when detached from your own money. It is a critique of the digital age, the digitisation of money, and the suggestibility of the human mind. It is also a critique of myself, and my ...


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Indie Review: Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage, by Tyler Glail and Michael Swain, has got quite a cheek. Tyler's faith in art games was sparked by Braid, and yet it's the one game you can scent the most from this "art game parody", a playful attack aimed presumably at less successful titles. Interestingly, perhaps unavoidably, it has its own point to make about the games industry. Humour ...


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