Month: September 2014
Beyond Flesh and Blood Preview | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Beyond Flesh and Blood Preview   While at EGX I spent some time with the guys from Pixel Bomb, playing their upcoming title Beyond Flesh And Blood. I am very interested in this title for a number of reasons, one of which is the setting, Manchester.Beyond Flesh And Blood is set over 200 years into the future, where most of mankind is living on a station, called The Tree Of Life, orbiting the p...[Read More]
Final Fantasy XIII’s Spec Problems | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Final Fantasy XIII’s Spec Problems   Looking at a games pc requirements can give you a sense of how many customization options you will have at your disposal upon release. I’m actually pretty happy about the minimum requirements here. Many recent Ps3 and Xbox 360 ports have had much more demanding requirements even though they are dealing the t...[Read More]
Gang Beasts Preview – MOUSE n JOYPAD
Gang Beasts Preview   Name one thing the current PC gaming scene is sorely missing at this time and age. I won’t take any guesses because I’m slightly fearful of what you might have noted – instead, let me tell you what Gang Beasts is all about: hot seat multiplayer. Imagine WWE, but where all actors are so drunk that they can barely stand on their two shuddering legs. Instead of ...[Read More]
KICKBEAT SPECIAL EDITION REVIEW
It’s not often that I can say I thoroughly enjoyed a game. It’s a strange statement for someone who reviews games to make but there will usually be some aspect of the game that really turns me off to the whole thing. Kickbeat is a refreshing and fun game from Zen studios. It’s a fresh take on two genres that have been flogged to death and then flogged some more. When I first loaded Kickbeat up on...[Read More]
The Evil Within New Gameplay – MOUSE n JOYPAD
The Evil Within New Gameplay   Bethesda and Tango Gameworks today have released a new video for their upcoming survival horror game from legendary director Shinji Mikami. The Evil Within has also gone gold across all five platforms it’s due to release on. So I guess you could say this video new video entitled “The Evil Within: Every Last Bulletâ€, is in celebration of that fact. This new...[Read More]
Dead Island 2 Preview – MOUSE n JOYPAD
Dead Island 2 Preview  While at EGX I had the chance to get my grubby mitts on Dead Island 2, currently in development by the guys at YAGER. Not only did I have the chance to play it, but Isaac Ashdown who is the Senior Gameplay Programmer at YAGER, was on hand to answer a few questions after I played through the demo build, not once but twice. Jealous? Well you should be. Dead Island ...[Read More]
Son Of Nor Preview – MOUSE n JOYPAD
Son of Nor Preview  Terraforming. The art or act of shaping the earth or ground at your feet. This hasn’t always gone hand in hand with gaming. There have definitely been exceptions: Minecraft and Terraria spring to mind, since they technically allow you to freely break and re-arrange the ground. The only problem is that these games use a grid-like system, restricting terraforming to b...[Read More]
Life Is Strange Preview – MOUSE n JOYPAD
Life Is Strange Preview Away from the hustle and bustle of the noisy crowds that clambered over every game at EGX this year, we attended a session behind closed doors for Square Enix, where their biggest reveal was the ambitious Life Is Strange. Yes everyone already knows about the new IP from the developers of Remember Me, Dontnod Entertainment. This was differ...[Read More]
AGE OF WONDERS III: GOLDEN REALMS REVIEW
A warning before we start off: this review is written from the point of view of someone who was playing the original Age of Wonders III game as well as the Golden Realms expansion for the first time; if you are already familiar with the original game, you can skip the next four paragraphs which is mainly a summary review of the original Age of Wonders III game. Admittedly I had never played the or...[Read More]
ROCCAT Tyon Gaming Mouse
While I was chatting to Tim Krause from ROCCAT at EGX, he was excited to show us their new gaming mouse, which officially launches next week, the Tyon mouse. This mouse has a revolutionary analogue fin on the side that can control all kinds of things in your gaming. For Instance to free up more fingers while flying vehicles in Battlefield as this fin can control any axis you have assigned to it. A...[Read More]
Neverending Nightmares Chills Steam – MOUSE n JOYPAD
Neverending Nightmares, a psychological horror game comes to Steam   A new psychological horror game, Neverending Nightmares, has just been released for Steam PC and the Ouya platform. Play as Thomas, a mentally disturbed man doomed to night after night of unending nightmares, stuck in a state between sleep and sleeplessness, each new nightmare unequalled by those that came before it. Help Thom...[Read More]
ROCCAT Kave XTD Stereo Headset
While at EGX I had the pleasure of sitting down and having a chat to Tim Krause, who is the Senior PR Manager at ROCCAT. On Tuesday they released the Kave XTD Stereo Headset, which they are very proud of. In fact I had the chance to get a good look at these headsets in action at the War Thunder booth, and I have to say these are an impressive statement. These also come in 3 different military styl...[Read More]