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There’s no real way to justify this, is there? No ‘games are art’ excuse. Just the fact that sometimes, just sometimes, gruesome violence in games can be an awful lot of fun. And it’s even more fun when it’s not you that’s having your noggin disconnected from the rest of …

Like a boss Boss fights, contrary to increasingly popular opinion, do not have to be a bore. True, more sophisticated game design is leading to a degree of boss redundancy, as dramatic, narrative peaks and troughs come to replace standout moments of gameplay panic. But the boss fight itself does …

Mysteries of the Ani-mouse Seriously. We know you don’t believe us yet, but seriously. We came to this astounding realisation a couple of days ago and immediately knew that we had to share it with you. In Assassin’s Creed (opens in new tab), you are not playing an ancestral murder-man. …

So Activision closed another studio last week. This time it was Prototype and Prototype 2 developer Radical Entertainment. It had been in business for 17 years before being bought by Activision. Afterwards, it lasted just 4. I wasn’t surprised by any of this. Not due to the quality of Radical’s …

Whatever happens in the next 11 months, 2012 is going to be a huge year for gaming. The months ahead hold the launch of (possibly) two new platforms, Sony’s PS Vita and Nintendo’s Wii U, as well as a storm of games we already know about.It’s the ones we don’t …

As a man that makes a living writing words of varying quality about video games, I am contractually obliged to hold the opinion that video games are better than anything else in the world. And because it’s Christmas I am also contractually obliged to write something ‘seasonal’. So I thought …

Fourteen years. It took 14 years for Duke Nukem Forever to go from idea to finished product. Fourteen years of work by passionate individuals, some of whom wanted to finish the game so badly that they found ways to continue working on it even after its apparent demise. And after …