With its wizards, spells, monsters, and gripping battles, the Harry Potter universe has oodles of potential for quality video-game adaptations. Still, as with video games from any mahoosive franchise, Harry Potter’s virtual outings are a mixed bag; over the years,…
Playing as a sneaky, highly-trained operative with cool gadgets is a great concept for a video game, and Ubisoft nailed it time and again with their Splinter Cell series. Hero Sam Fisher is a little bit Bond and a little…
How many New Year’s resolutions have you kept over the years? For some of us, the same ones get rolled out again and again. Maybe you want to lose weight. Maybe you want to run a marathon. Maybe you want…
Over the years, we’ve been hit by countless movie tie-in games. Some have been fantastic. Others have been decent. The rest have been pretty poor (mentioning no names). Still, there have been some missed opportunities too, not least when it…
Over the past 30 years or so, we’ve had more Marvel games than you can shake an adamantium claw at. From the days of the Atari 2600 and ZX Spectrum through to the current generation of consoles, Marvel’s stable of…
We’ve got Spider-Man on the brain right now, after the trailer for Marvel and Sony’s first cinematic team-up just dropped. Needless to say, Spider-Man: Homecoming looks terrific (Michael Keaton as the Vulture!), and could hopefully give us a series of…
With 2017 just a few weeks away, it’s time to look ahead to the games set for release in the new year. There’s plenty to be excited for, across major AAA titles to crowd-sourced indie-releases. Whether you’re excited to see…
Indiana Jones. What’s not to love? He’s smart. He’s brave. He’s a part-time teacher, full-time Nazi-buster. Still, when he’s not teaching Hitler’s goons the error of their ways, he’s liberating kids from a life of slavery in deepest, darkest India….
Guest characters make a neat addition to any game, usually injecting a touch of novelty-value and tongue-in-cheek humour. For example, who wouldn’t welcome the chance to play as a horor-movie monster in Mortal Kombat rather than goody two-shoes Liu Kang…
The Sega Master System was a gem of an 8-bit console. Sure, it couldn’t overtake the NES in terms of worldwide sales, but it was the purchase of choice for those gamers with no interest in a certain moustachioed plumber….