News - May, 2015
Thursday28th May 2015
Who Knows?
In 1885, German biologist Hans Driesch demonstrated that you could produce two sea urchins from a single embryo cell. Ever since then, society has been intrigued by cloning and the controversial practice has continued to this day. It's a tricky subject to discuss due to the many moral issues surrounding cloning. Should man play God? How...
News Rugby League Live 3 Set to Play the Ball on Xbox One
Zipped past us
The next game in Big Ant's Rugby League Live series will be headed to Xbox One. Rugby League Live 3 has been rated by European raters PEGI this morning, suggesting that it will release a lot sooner than we'd anticipated. Indeed, the game was actually confirmed back in December 2014 via Big Ant's Facebook page, but we must have been...
Tuesday26th May 2015
Review Schrödinger’s Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark (Xbox One)
Dead and Alive
Even for the most open-minded gamers, it is easy to roll your eyes at the thought of playing through yet another puzzle-platform game. It seems like a new one releases every week that promises a unique hook that will turn the genre on its head. This is rarely the case though, as not every game can be as brilliant as Braid or Fez. The...
Friday22nd May 2015
Review Farming Simulator 15 (Xbox One)
The amber waves of groan
It almost goes without saying that Farming Simulator 15 will be a divisive game. On a platform filled to the brim with shooters, racers and sports simulations, the simple fact is that a very large portion of the market will just simply not understand the attraction of planting crops and harvesting them for money. On the...
Wednesday20th May 2015
Review Mega Coin Squad (Xbox One)
Money.
Couch-based multiplayer has been falling away in recent years but, with the rise of indie developers who are keen to see it make a comeback, more and more titles seem to be remembering that pretty much every console ever made supports more than one controller being in use at a time. This resurgence is most definitely occurring on the Xbox One...
Weirdness Missing That Xbox One 'Day One' Achievement? Now You Can Buy It Without the eBay Risk
Surely, nobody is this tragic?
Folks who picked up the Xbox One on launch day - or 'Day One' - were rewarded with an exclusive code bundled into the box. When redeemed, the code gave you an utterly pointless 'Day One' achievement that was worth absolutely no Gamerscore points at all. Also, it unlocked the ability to use the Day One branding as your...
News Xbox Live Rewards Takes a Hint From Club Nintendo, Offers Physical Items to VIPs
Now you're talking...
Xbox Live Rewards is a cool little service provided by Microsoft to Xbox Live users, allowing them to earn small amounts of money based on what they've bought and played via the Xbox Live service. Most people will pick up a couple of bucks every now and then from the service if they're lucky, but it seems that Microsoft is...
Tuesday19th May 2015
Review Rogue Legacy (Xbox One)
All in the family
Procedural generation is a term that is being thrown around quite often lately, and it's one that has a decent amount of stigma going against it. When environmental characteristics and enemy arrangements are decided by an algorithm or line of code, changing the surroundings with every replay, it can make a game feel cheap, and the...
Review Slice Zombies for Kinect (Xbox One)
Quick chop
From Slice Zombies for Kinect's very title, you can pretty much predict what it's going to consist of. If you guessed "Fruit Ninja Kinect with zombies instead of fruit" then you're pretty much on the money. That isn't to belittle developer MADE's work though, rather it's the easiest way to inform readers of what the game is all about...
Saturday16th May 2015
Feature Editor's Opinion: Indie Game Promotion on Xbox One Has to Change
Evolution required
Back in the Xbox 360's heyday, Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade was a stellar way to bring new titles to gamers. A platform within a platform, it appeared to have the full backing of the console manufacturer, with regular arcade-focused promotions and a dedicated area on the dashboard for people to find out about what was available...
So NERO, so far(o)
When NERO first made its appearance back at E3 2014, pretty much everybody with eyes on the screen was intrigued. Beautiful settings, a fantastic soundtrack, and stacks of luminescence were the order of the day. That first trailer didn't particularly shed any light on the gameplay though. As it turns out, Storm in a Teacup's...
Wednesday13th May 2015
Review Lifeless Planet: Premier Edition (Xbox One)
What is life?
As gaming continues to evolve, more and more games are becoming a melting pot of genres. In fact, it is rare to see a game that strictly falls into a single genre anymore. When pulled off correctly, this makes for a great game that is unique and manages to find the strengths of several genres and forego their inherent weaknesses. When...
And not a light cycle in sight...
When it comes to twin-stick shooters, the Xbox One now has a fair few titles from which to choose. The excellent Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions is at the top of the pile, whilst less high-profile releases such as We Are Doomed and Sixty Second Shooter Prime bring up the rear. Puppy Games' Ultratron – the follow up...
Monday11th May 2015
Review Project CARS (Xbox One)
Spin Spin Sugar
It's 8am on a drizzly Spanish morning. Despite the light smattering of rain, the early morning sunlight floods through the trees dotted around the Catalunya circuit, reflecting in the standing water on the wet tarmac and bringing the whole track to life. The sand to the edges of the raceway looks as bright and soft as the most...
Friday8th May 2015
News DICE Confirms That All Future Battlefield 4 Content Will Be Free
There's nothing cheaper
DICE have confirmed that any future content that they release for Battlefield 4 - including all the things they've already announced - will be free for all players, regardless of whether or not they own a Premium pass. In the works at DICE are night versions of several maps - including Siege of Shanghai, Zavod 311, and...
Review Pinball FX2 - Star Wars Rebels (Xbox One)
Strong with this one, the Force is
Earlier this week we reviewed Avengers: Age of Ultron for Pinball FX2, and we regret to say that we were disappointed with it. Because it felt familiar and uninspired, we were a little bit worried that the developer, Zen Studios, might be losing some of that magic it's been injecting into its pinball tables for the...
Wednesday6th May 2015
It was always obvious to us
During their recent earnings call, EA have declared themselves to be "extremely pleased" with the way in which EA Access is going on Xbox One, confirming that the service has outperformed all expectations so far. Not only that, but with a bunch of titles now available in the EA Access Vault, the company has decided that...
Review Project Root (Xbox One)
Rooted to the flaw
Triangle's Shooting Love 200X managed to find a Western release on Xbox 360 recently and that would suggest that while the numbers have certainly dwindled, there are still enough fans of old-school top-down shooters to be found out there. Many developers have tried – with varying levels of success – to breathe life into a...
Tuesday5th May 2015
Review Pinball FX2 - Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron (Xbox One)
Sequelitis
By now we should all be aware that the people at Zen Studios typically do stellar licensed work. Even when they don't entirely get it right – e.g. the chaos found in South Park Pinball – the fundamentals of pinball are handled well enough to offset the missteps, and it's hard to criticize them on that level. But recently a very steady...
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