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DeathSpank - Review

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

 DeathSpank has been almost universally described as Monkey Island meets Diablo and that’s pretty much spot on - all the hacking, slashing and looting of a Diablo-like dungeon crawler (although mainly focussed on above ground sections rather than murky underground areas) with the humor and bizarre characters of a Ron Gilbert classic.

 Despite all the Monkey [...]

Bioshock 2 First Impressions

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Given how much I adored the first Bioshock, I was a little anxious when firing up the sequel - it had been developed by a different team, there was a new focus on multiplayer - but any doubts were swept away almost from the get-go. I’m about 10 hours in now after a bit of [...]

Flashback Feature / Final Fantasy IX

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Originally released in the year 2000, Final Fantasy IX was the last hurrah for the series on the original PlayStation and represented something of a look back by the developers. Eschewing the more modern worlds of VII and VIII, IX took the series back to its original medieval style fantasy setting.

Flashback Feature / Lunar 2 Eternal Blue

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

From the Mega-CD to the Saturn and finally to the PlayStation, GameArts’ classic RPG is a multi-platform RPG that shouldn’t be missed.

Flashback Feature / Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Flashback Feature for February 2007 focuses on the classic future sports title, Speedball 2. As the manager of the lowly ranked side Brutal Deluxe, you must win your way up to the top division and then claim the championship. The catch is that you only have two seasons in which to do so, therefore it [...]