01 Aug 2010
30 Minute Playtest: Just Cause 2
Ok, this game has been out long enough to qualify for a full review or even a bargain bin review, but between Red Dead Redemption, Borderlands and my semi-annual OCD repl
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01 Aug 2010
30 Minute Playtest: Mafia II
During my brief stint as professional gaming journalist I believed the lies and felt it was my duty to finish every game I reviewed. Within six months I had the foggy bra
01 Aug 2010
Dead Rising vs Dead Rising 2
A lot has changed since Dead Rising’s first outing on the 360 way back in 2006. The locale is new, our protagonist is a little more rugged and the exclusivity that Micros
01 Aug 2010
Gaming to blame for footballers' poor form
Ever wondered why your football team of choice isn't doing particularly well in the league? Or why your country crashed out of the World Cup with a whimper? According to
01 Aug 2010
Golden eras of gaming: PlayStation 2-Part II
Slimmed-down consoles are in vogue nowadays, aren't they? Late last year, the PS3 slim helped sales of Sony's flagship console soar, and more recently the Xbox 360 lost a
01 Aug 2010
Hyped hardware that failed to deliver
How often do we see dire games hit the shelves? Poor quality releases are pretty commonplace nowadays and are rightly slated by the gaming press. With development time pr
01 Aug 2010
Megabits' pick of...Current Gen Co-Op
Ok, everyone knows that Super Mario Galaxy 2 was a triumph, losing none of its predecessor's inventiveness whilst adding a new twist in the form of co-op, but if we’re en
01 Aug 2010
Megabits' pick of...special edition games
Tin boxes, limited edition artwork, extra DLC, memory sticks or soundtracks… just some of the “bonus” items bundled with the latest games for a small premium! But what's
01 Aug 2010
Our trigger happy obsession with the FPS
Videogames and guns, an inseparable bond of bullets and binary code. Since the birth of the medium, from primitive interstellar bullet dodging through to the controversia
01 Aug 2010
Putty to make an impression - retro return
Remember the Amiga classic Putty? Well, the lovable blue blob is set to bounce back to our screens - notably the PS3, iPhone, iPad and PSP Go. It was a firm favourite at
01 Aug 2010
Review: Alan Wake
I don’t know what to make of Alan Wake as a novelist. His writings, while fairly manageable to comprehend, seem nondescript, ridden with clichés. I have a feeling that my
01 Aug 2010
Review: Bioshock 2
Adam, Eve, Big Daddies, Little Sisters and all manner of genetically altered ‘splicers’ in one submerged dystopia can only mean one thing. It’s time to return to Rapture…
01 Aug 2010
Review: Far Cry 2
Four years after Jack Carver’s mutated tropical exploits and the subsequent remakes and ports for the consoles, Ubisoft Montreal took the reigns from the original develop
01 Aug 2010
Review: Flower
Just to clarify, I am a man’s man. I love watching sport, enjoy swigging beer and am extremely fond of female attention. I sometimes sport stubble and can be found, on oc
01 Aug 2010
Review - Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
Maybe my brain functions a little differently from the rest of the world, but I always find the hardest part of writing reviews to be the introductory paragraph. I know w