Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One is a game that takes its subtitle a little too seriously. Despite on-box promises of cooperative gameplay, the latest entry in Insomniac’s time-tested platform action series delivers little in the way of buddy-buddy thrills, instead encouraging hoarding and accidentally being an arse to the rest of your team thanks [...]

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Expecting Uncharted 3 to be a raging disappointment? Good. We applaud your ability to remain stoic in the face of relentless hype and an explosion of sandwich advertisements. Thankfully, Naughty Dog’s latest justifies its 2-year-plus development time, countless weeks in motion capture studios and typical sense of grandeur within the first ten minutes of gameplay, [...]

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In case you hadn’t noticed, small-time unknown publisher Rockstar Games announced relatively low-budget indie sequel Grand Theft Auto V yesterday, along with a date for the trailer: Wednesday November 2nd. Since this announcement, a Flash countdown has gone live on the site, an embedded version of which you see above. With a logo revealed and [...]

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This is absolutely precious. Warner Brothers Interactive has included redeemable online pass codes inside new copies of Batman: Arkham City – a title that will sell a bazillion copies anyway — in an attempt to prevent used sales. The redemption code grants access to the Catwoman missions which, if not played through, keep some of the [...]

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Bright daylight fills your eyes as you step into the unknown world of post-Apophis Earth, civilisation as we know it eradicated by the catastrophic asteroid some 20 years or so into the future. Within seconds, you’re assaulted by crazies and saved by an unknown saviour. He rolls up in an off-road buggy and roars at [...]

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Join me from 8am to 8pm UK time for the first half of Rock Band Extra Life! Donate at least ten dollars for a lottery ticket to win Rock Band drum kits and copies of RB3! Donate here: http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&page=2&eventID=501&participantID=5321

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You might remember that for Extra Life last year, I sang for the entire 24 hours in Rock Band with Blair “mynameisblair” Inglis, staff writer for TheSixthAxis, accompanying me on plastic guitar. Together, we raised around £1000 (~$1500) for Edinburgh Sick Kids in Scotland, and afterwards I swore I’d never do anything like it ever [...]

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Captain Morgane and the Golden Turtle is the point-and-click adventure spin-off of the 2008 title So Blonde. Both games are pirate-themed saunters through locales tropical and fanciful, penned by Broken Sword writer Steve Ince. With Ince’s name attached the game has a degree of star power; but in this age of adrenaline trips and robot [...]

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Today, I kissed goodbye to my social life. Hard Lines hit Android a couple of days ago, which means I no longer have to nab my brother’s iPod Touch whenever I fancy a game of the superbly styled line-killing glowy thing-munching arcadeathon. Too many confusing buzzwords? Read on to discover why everyone should have a [...]

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Of all the things I expected to be doing at Eurogamer Expo, meeting and chatting to Drs. Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, behind closed doors and before their Old Republic presentation, was not one of them. Together forming the professional partnering unofficially known as The BioWare Doctors, Muzyka and Zeschuk are responsible — alongside their teams at [...]

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UPDATE: DICE has released numbers for the Battlefield 3 beta. 12 million people have downloaded it, and the developer has also confirmed that the build of the game is more than one month old, and that the beta was not to test the game, but the all new backend system to provide more stable servers. [...]

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