If you were to believe what some games industry big wigs were saying you’d be lead to believe that Windows 8 was the beginning of the rapture for games on…
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An old friend of mine wrote a post not too long ago saying that the FPS genre had almost run its course and was in either need of a reboot…
Striking the right balance between making a game enjoyable and it’s relative difficulty level can be a rather tricky task. Way back in the dawn of gaming developers would often…
Space sims are one of my favourite game genres. Indeed my go to title whenever I find myself without an Internet connection is Microsoft’s Freelancer, a game released way back…
The number of games that find success on one platform and then spread to others has trended upwards significantly over the past couple years. If I was to hazard a…
If survival horror is one of the game genres that I tend to rate poorly because of my internal bias against them then real time strategy is the genre that…
First up have a gander at this beautiful tech demo that uses DirectX 11’s rasterization and post-processing engine to produce some truly spectacular looking images: If you want to have…
You’d have to dig far into my past to know that I was something of an extreme overclocker back in the day. I remember getting my little Athlon 1800+, then…
Today the platform of choice for the vast majority of gamers is the console, there’s really no question about it. Whilst video games may have found their feet with PCs…
The last few years have seen many independent developers attempt to expand on the traditional platformer style, usually either by re-imagining the concept or by combining it with elements that…