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It’s Christmas! I’m back living with my parents for a few weeks over the holidays, so I decided to follow up last year’s life-changing playthrough of Metal Gear Solid 3 with a very solemn game of Metal Gear Solid 4. I had been waiting all year for this and it was everything I could have [...]

You’ve been waiting all year, but it’s finally time for another outdated game review! Aside from my brief holiday in the jungles of Tselinoyarsk last Christmas, the only PS2 games I’ve played since God of War were Persona 3 and Final Fantasy XII. They both rumbled on for months and I only got about halfway [...]

I’ve been pretty busy lately! Although none of it here. Over on DarkZero – aside from co-hosting our recent LISTENER-GUEST SPECIAL PODCAST – I’ve written reviews of Space Marine and From Dust and I went to i43 and interviewed a bunch of pro gamers but that hasn’t been posted yet. I also made some notes [...]

‘Power of collaboration’ my entire arse.

Snake Eater is basically two intertwined stories. The main plot is a Cold War story about a CIA agent on a covert mission to prevent a Russian colonel from using a prototype superweapon to stage a coup d’etat and trump the US in the nuclear arms race. The sub-plot is basically about a young man growing up and crawling out from under his mother’s wing.

If you like pushing buttons on a joypad to make a virtual representation of a man attack virtual representations of mythical creatures and mechanically reduce their health stat below the threshold required to trigger their death animation, then you will love God of War.

Final Fantasy X-2 is the most unusual Square RPG I’ve played since Live A Live. It includes many traditional Final Fantasy game elements but changes their gameplay functions, resulting in a weird subversion of the typical FF formula. It still has an unintelligable story, random battles and a cast of moody teenagers, but playing the [...]

In my game, the player is presented with a close-up view of a woman’s exposed chest, and must tap on her breasts to create a series of cuts around her nipples.

To date, Mass Effect is the only 360 game for which I have collected all available achievements. I have completed it four or five times playing as different classes and backgrounds, taking different team-mates, on different difficulty settings, and making different decisions. I even bought and completed both the DLC add-ons, not realising what a [...]

Sad news this week, as Consolevania releases what is apparently its final episode. It’s been a bit hit and miss over the years, but the last episode managed to capture a lot of what was good about the series – heartfelt discussion about games, and a bit of informed parody (keep watching until the end [...]