The Vita has been a handheld plagued by challenges. In particular has been the challenge of finding its audience. Is it for hardcore gamers or more casual...
Author - Matt Gosper
aka Ponk – a Melburnian gay gamer who works with snail mail. Enthusiastically keeping a finger in every pie of the games industry. I'll beat you at Mario Kart, and lose to you in any shooter you can name.
Whilst it’s not my most defining early-gaming memory, I do remember playing the original Lemmings back on our family’s first PC. It ran entirely off floppy...
Ahh, Kirby.
Bound by Flame is the latest title from French development team Spiders, and their first to appear on a current-gen console. Known for a few previous Sherlock...
The Sly Trilogy has finally made its way to the Vita, and it's yet another retro win for the handheld. After arriving on the PS3 way back in 2010, Sly Cooper 1...
In previous reviews, I’ve made mention of my ‘indie game shortlist’ – a list I keep handy of all the smaller-scale titles I’ve been watching as I wait...
Final Fantasy X, being the first Final Fantasy title on the PS2, was a big step forward for my RPG consumption as a kid. The game introduced a whole new tier...
Ys: Memories of Celceta represents both a series and a subgenre that I’ve never really investigated before. The Ys series of RPGs has been around since the...
Given that I entered the world of Xbox in the age of 360, I never had the opportunity to play the original Fable. My experience with the series started with...
Two years ago, developer Double Fine started what would become an historic Kickstarter campaign to fund a new point-and-click adventure game in the vein...
The Assassin's Creed series has a long and celebrated history, but the handheld side-games in its ranks have not always fared as well as its flagship titles...
Over the past few years, it’s become fairly common to see companion games released alongside Ubisoft’s flagship Assassin’s Creed titles. Previous instalments...
The Harvest Moon series has been going for what feels like forever, but has actually just hit 17 years since the first release in Japan. The latest instalment...
Media Molecule is a studio well-known for its flagship series, LittleBigPlanet. Since 2008, they’ve graced us with various instalments in their Stephen-Fry...
The Ratchet & Clank series has been one of my favourite ongoing games from both this and the previous generation of Sony consoles – perhaps you could tell...
Back when it first released in 2010, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West was firmly lodged in my 360’s disc drive for a good week. A reimagining of the classic 16th...
Let’s face it: Grand Theft Auto V is a freaking beast. Everyone’s been looking forward to it, and it’s a safe bet most gamers – hardcore and casual alike...
I’m something of a recent convert to the Saints Row series – a friend eagerly encouraged me to play Saints Row 2 back when it was the latest instalment, but it...
I never got the chance to play the original Flashback back in the day, but extensive internet research has revealed that it was a Prince of Perisa-style...
When Deus Ex: The Fall was first announced, I was sceptical. As much as I love my iPad, it always feels that there is a limitation to what kinds of games play...