Today I finally got round to buying The Dark Knight and Watchmen, as well as the latest Harry Potter film. I've only watched one of them so far, but thought I'd post a bit about it. Well, it's something to do ( Read more... )

The first episode of Tales of Monkey Island was very good. Hard to comment too much before the other episodes, since they're direct continuations rather than stand alone episodes, but I'll have a review coming soon anyway ( Read more... )

Finished reading all 3 volumes of Batman: War Games. I didn't know much about it before I read it, but since it was in the library I thought I might as well give it a go. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. There were quite a few characters I didn't know, but it didn't really matter, since they were clear enough to understand basically who ( Read more... )

Recently completed the DS version of Broken Sword, so here's a combined review of the original PC and director's cut DS versions of the game. Not all that happy with this review, but I can't be bothered editing it any more, so it'll do.

( Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars review )

Finally finished Gears of War the other day, so here's my final review.

( Gears of War review )

I know I shouldn't get optimistic over a licensed game, but I can't help but think that the new Batman: Arkham Asylum game looks amazing. And after seeing the trailers for the first time tonight and realising that they have the proper cast of the Animated Series I'm even more hopeful about it. It's a game that's pretty much a must purchase for me, ( Read more... )

Every so often a corporation does something so ridiculously nonsensical that it's hard to understand how they get away with it ( Read more... )

Not much to say right now, but I had to post just to comment that the E3 gameplay footage for the next Call of Duty game looks spectacular.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-modern-warfare/50101

The earlier mention of Monkey Island made me remember this video, which I thought I'd post here. It's the band Press Play On Tape, which specialises in covers of old computer game music, doing a live version of the Monkey Island theme.

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Best gaming news in years! Where did this come from? I opened my emails tonight expecting the usual junk, only to find an email from Telltale Games announcing their next episodic series will be 5 episodes of Monkey Island, with the first one due on July 7th ( Read more... )