Plenty of innovation in the gaming industry comes from Japan and North America. While these developers continue to push boundaries and reshape the landscape of our beloved medium, more often than not it seems that our European colleagues ...

It is an oft-discussed topic in the gaming industry about games that redefine the interactive entertainment landscape as we know it. Every few years we get a game that makes us take a step back and shudder in awe. For gamers, it is the r...

I was privileged to go to E3 this year and during my trip I got to see an awesome assortment of titles. While many of the games I wanted to film were sadly "no cameras" showings (Aliens Colonial Marines, Bioshock Infinite, etc.) I was able...

Close to eight years ago a team of Australian game developers came together under the guidance of Brendan McNamara, a former creative director for Sony Computer Entertainment�s Soho studio and the man responsible for the story of The Geta...

In 2007 Crytek, a German developer whose initial outing Far Cry shook up the development community years previous, released Crysis, a beautiful and smartly done shooter that, to this day, is still one of the largest graphical benchmarks in...

Speculative fiction and video games go hand-in-hand more often than not these days what with the average first person shooter these days revolving around a plot involving a war with either Russia, China, or pretty much any Asian country th...

In 1729 an Irish writer by the name of Jonathan Swift published a satirical essay anonymously about the growing problem of poverty-stricken children in Ireland and how they could be put to use in such a way that is beneficial to society at...

Downloadable games that are not legacy titles, i.e. titles that bring back warm and fuzzy nostalgic feelings of when they were originally released a decade or so back, usually don�t get my hard-earned cash unless there is something truly u...

When the Xbox 360 fist launched five years ago one of the teased games from Capcom was Dead Rising. From the trailer all one could discern was a fairly ugly reporter walking around a supermarket amongst hundreds of zombies. When the fin...

Over the course of this generation one of the more interesting new intellectual properties has been a spiritual successor to a long dead one: Bioshock. Produced in part from the mind of Ken Levine, a senior designer that helped shape fam...

This year was my first E3 and luckily I was able to obtain an invite to a Rage demonstration session behind closed doors. My story was posted on my main site (HookedGamers.com) but it was heavily edited due to the editor's wish to keep p...

Hey all! This year was my first E3 and hopefully won't be my last but while I recover from a week of carrying a 40lb pack on my back all day every day I figured that now was the right time to start uploading some of the footage I captured ...

It�s been a busy past few weeks for me but now that I�m settled into my brand new apartment away from the madness of the old house I�ve finally found the time to sit down and start work on some more reviews. Unfortunately I wasn�t able t...

Hey all! Like I promised a few days ago I have for your approval my preview of Portal 2. Turns out the same day I posted my SCC review here it was posted on the main site. Figures. Anyway, since it is now off the main page (things roll ...

Hey all, Going to try something new here. When I usually post an article I do so on HookedGamers.com, the main site I write for. However, in an almost completely shameless attempt to help get my work out there I figured it wouldn't hurt ...