November 28, 2015

Making an original video game is never easy. If it’s a fully fleshed out, well designed piece then it demands time, care and respect from a range of people both inside and outside the studio.

November 27, 2015

Rise and shine is a side-scrolling shooter, with a nice comic art style and old school difficulty. The game is made by Super Mega Team and published by Adult Swim Game

November 17, 2015

You know when you're onto a good game as a critic. Why? Because you feel really cross when you have to stop playing that game to begin writing the review.

November 16, 2015

On the story page Ghost Cleaner describes itself as a puzzle game mixed with an arcade game, and i can tell you that its just Peggle but with some physics based levels.

November 09, 2015

There are a lot of hard games out there, and they have existed for a very long time. Being ‘hard’ is the sole basis of some games which make you learn the rigid, immovable rules provided, punishing you for every indiscretion.

November 09, 2015

Almost a year on from its initial release, Destiny returns with an all new 'legendary edition' featuring three expansions and a whole host of new weapons to wield, armour to acquire and enemies to expel.

November 05, 2015

Clandestine is asymmetrical co-op spy and hack em up. The main draw of the games is that while one of you plays as the redhead field agent who has to sneak around and avoid detection, while the other one plays as the four eyed computer guy who's job is to hack cameras, keypads, PC's etc.

November 03, 2015

WWE 2K16 has entered the arena following a disappointing season with last year’s installment, is this game destined for greatness with a road paved for championship glory or another name lost in the shuffle?

November 02, 2015

Ubisoft have certainly made up for their flaws from Assassins Creed Unity in their latest tale in their saga, Syndicate.

October 30, 2015

Whilst arguably being the most controversial of Telltale’s most recent batch of episodic adventures, Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 1 proves to be a competent additionto Telltale;s catalogue.

October 30, 2015

The Warhammer licences have had a bit of a hit or miss reputation over the past few years. Ever since THQ went down and relic was bought by Sega. Blood Bowl and Blood Bowl 2, for example, have been extremely popular and had league on YouTube made about them.

October 29, 2015

Well, that'll teach me to have hope about anything, ever. I'm just entering my tenth hour of the incredibly messy game that is Tales Of Zestiria and I'm thinking about the preview I did with a sense of wistful nostalgia.

October 26, 2015

Well, here we are with a review of a dedicated single disciplined sport. I am used to getting a bit of a rally fix by loading Gran Turismo or Forza Motorsport.

October 26, 2015

Originally released in 1990,Speedball 2 HD is a high res version of it, with a few new bells and whistles. But what exactly is "Speedball"? Well, in the future cyborg street gangs make a brutal sport in order to gain territories, that sport is called "Speedball".

October 24, 2015

A while ago I went to a gun range in LA, and you know what? It was genuinely great fun. Just me, a few friends and a tub of ammo, shredding the offensively-intact paper targets that waved at us from the end of the rail.

October 23, 2015

After its successful release on the PS3 last year, BlazBlue returned in all its anime glory with the 'Extend' edition. But has the all action fighter finally run out of steam, or is this PS4 debut another Phantastic addition to this generation's growing repertoire of fighting games?

October 22, 2015

And so it comes to this - the grand finale of what is probably one of the best Telltale games ever made, certainly one of the best interactive narratives in recent memory.

October 19, 2015

Lucius II is game made and published by Shiver Games. In it you play as the Devils son- Lucius. The story picks up right after the first one left off.

October 17, 2015

Heavily stylised titles have seemingly fallen out of fashion on the gaming market nowadays, despite a community based revival that focuses on helping smaller, independent developers and studios.

October 15, 2015

I had never heard of Spilt Milk Studio before I got the review code to Tango Fiesta. That might be because this is their second game on Steam (both within a month and ever). Their first, The Legend of Tango, claims on its Steam page to be “a short comedy JRPG that tells the story of how Tango Fiesta was born.” That game is free and has mixed reviews.

October 15, 2015

After its hiatus on the previous generation of consoles, EA's giant Star Wars Battlefront returns in full force (see what I did there) next month. This Thursday, however, fans worldwide were treated to the free beta which dropped in the PlayStation store around 3pm GMT.

October 14, 2015

As the summer games drought concludes, I always feel it's a good time to get out of your comfort zone and play something different.

October 14, 2015

As with many things in life, timing is everything. Mad Max would have been the perfect ‘Summer Drought’ game; a perfect mindless adventure through a real enough world to keep the boredom from driving you insane.

October 14, 2015

The Chaos Engine (originally know as "Solders of Fortune" in North America) ,developed by Abstraction Games and published by Mastertronic, is a 2 player,top down run and gun(without the run)

October 11, 2015

After half an hour of Spectra, the first game from Gateway Interactive, I found myself struck by a distinct but persistent thought, one I tried to shake unsuccessfully for a long time.

October 11, 2015

Penarium is a arcade style platformer,with a 2D pixel artstyle ,made be Self Made Miracle and published by Team17,Digital Ltd. In the game you play Willy-a portly farm boy that in his yearning for adventure,accepts a invitation from a mysterious ring leader that offers you a exciting adventure in his circus.

October 01, 2015

This happens every year. The gameplay is tweaked ever so slightly and people lose their shit over it. A couple of years ago the shooting changed and everyone hated it.

September 23, 2015

This October, the first truly new version of Minecraft since the game became one of the most popular titles in app markets is being released. Minecraft: Story Mode will be an episodic gaming series based on the pixellated

September 12, 2015

Here is the game I’ve been waiting for, for what seems like months. Now before I start I will say that Forza 1-3 were some of the best racing games ever made and 4 and 5 were big disappointments to me as they both felt very rushed and undercooked for release.

September 12, 2015

So in the 30th anniversary of one, of if not the most, well-known video game character name of all time, we have Super Mario Maker.

September 12, 2015

If you've ever looked at a cashier register or bank and thought “I could totally rob that”, without actually acting upon the well laid out plan in your head, then congratulations, because you're an upstanding member of society.

September 04, 2015

Colonies Online is a new MMO game and I know that this is in early access on Steam but to me, the game must be in a fully playable state to put out and ask for real world money.

September 03, 2015

As a stealth game, Volume succeeds in being a complex puzzle made with the simplest and easiest mechanics. Every gadget and tactic fit together so well, you are able to move past each obstacle fairly easily if given enough careful contemplation. It is always suitably challenging and never frustrating.

September 03, 2015

First of all, I would like to apologise to first the PR team trying to get the word out about this game and secondly to the talented developers. Now that’s out the way, I had better explain myself a little here.

August 29, 2015

The Giana Sisters series started out by been a blatant copy of the Super Mario Bros. Game from Nintendo on the NES. A brief history lesson, over in the UK the NES never came over until the very late 80's.

August 29, 2015

Well we’re back again and once again I find myself impressed with progression of the story, Episode 4 retains the intensity of episode 3 but adds more of the humour we’ve grown accustom to in the Borderlands series in a big way.

August 26, 2015

Hello, there. Zack here, and I don’t know if you realised, but there has been a Call Of Duty Beta on the PS4. Aaron (he is new) and I managed to get some hands on and we had a little discussion about what we thought of it.

August 25, 2015

Once you climb to the top of a tower and look over the flooded and ruined city that Submerged is based in, you realise that there is something beautiful here. If you catch the sun bouncing off the water at sunset, you have a marvellous scene in front of you.

August 13, 2015

Well this my first review after having a week in bed not able to move a muscle, and the only good thing that came about this was the fact I lost over a stone. I think I should be sick more often. But sorry, where was I? Oh yeah! Q.U.B.E.

August 01, 2015

It's abnormal that a game series gets stronger with each instalment, as most lose that initial spark they had, the special something that players loved about the title. This power can be lost over a few games, as the developers and designers begin scraping the bottom of the ideas barrel for insight.

July 25, 2015

Flying around in video games is sometimes not the best part of the title, as it tends to be awkward, or very difficult to control right off the bat. Even in flying simulators, games designed to actually teach you how to fly, in a few cases, the controls and understanding how to actually move in the air aren't always easy. Speaking from personal experience, controlling anything that is sky-bound is very annoying to handle.

July 24, 2015

As we near the end of the Summer split of LCS, we saw some of the most action packed games this split. Last weekend showed us teams were not going to give up their hopes on either staying in the LCS or clutching a playoff birth to be considered as a team for worlds.

July 22, 2015

This week in the LCS we saw a win from Cloud 9 and Team Liquid’s revenge over TSM among other things. These events created a surge in the league for some teams and gave us a team to take the number one spot in the league, Team Gravity.

July 16, 2015

It became apparent to me that Her Story is something special after about one hour. I had a notepad on my lap with untidy half-sentences scrawled across several pages; profiles, events, theories, and anything else I thought was relevant to the story.

July 14, 2015

Football is one the largest, most widely known sports on the planet. Its entire system, mainly overseen by FIFA, makes billions per year, with players that have estimated values well into the tens of millions.

July 08, 2015

This week’s North American League Championship Series saw some of the most hyped rematches of the split. Including games between Gravity and Team SoloMid, Cloud 9 vs. Team Liquid and TSM vs. TDK. This week saw some of the closest and most explosive games of the season due to the massive improvement of many of the teams.

July 08, 2015

It’s been a while since I’ve last had a chance to play through the Tales of the Borderlands; the last chapter left itself on a gripping cliff hanger which had a lot of fans guessing what the consequence would be, with that said personally I found the outcome to be quite satisfying.

July 01, 2015

Week 5 of the NA LCS introduced fans to the second half of the split. We had many exciting rematches such as the Gravity vs. Team Liquid matchup and the old rivalry game, TSM vs. CLG.

June 26, 2015

Fast paced, intense indie titles are nothing that we haven't seen before. As a community we seem to enjoy taking on games that force us to our human limits, some gamers love when it comes down to reaction time and thinking on your feet.

June 23, 2015

The fourth installment of North American LCS was one of the most exciting weeks of the summer split. It was jam-packed with upsets and very close games. Teams finally proving themselves to be a top contender.

June 21, 2015

Picture the setting, you're a newly turned oil hunter in the early US Western frontiers, with money on the brain and a need to get in on the rush. To fulfill this need, you travel out to the virgin ground near one of the fledgling towns and decide that there is just as good a place as any to start getting rich.

June 19, 2015

What a year 2015 was for E3 this year. It was packed with huge names and big announcements from both Sony and Microsoft, but who really carried the day this year?

June 16, 2015

This week of North American LCS was full of action as we saw the implementation of Ekko on this patch along with a few new champions coming onto the rift. Ekko finally hit the Fields of Justice in style as he was used in many roles this week.

June 16, 2015

The long wait is over for console gamers who have been enviously avoiding their PC playing friends who have had a long time to enjoy the newest instalment of Tamriel, or Elder Scrolls games, The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited.

June 15, 2015

I was an insanely big fan of the Witcher 2 which I played a number of times on my XBOX 360. As soon as an announcement was made for the third instalment in the series I waited for this one with great anticipation.

June 12, 2015

Has anyone ever really dreamed about becoming a car mechanic? Now don't get me wrong, some of the mechanics out there do an amazing job, but come on you can't tell me that when these people were 7 years old that’s all they wanted to be?

June 10, 2015

What is Retro Gaming?

Depending on who you are, it can mean many different things.

June 09, 2015

Here we are again and what we have here is a nice, relaxing 3D Mini Golf game on the PC. Now I love a good golf game, but I can't remember the last time I managed to get any holes in on a good game. Mini golf games are normally fun; well, I enjoyed one on the 3DS a year or so ago.

June 09, 2015

Rouge-likes are all the rage now, from a sub category of games that was not used much but the last few years these little beauties have been growing in popularity.

June 07, 2015

Now I've never been tremendously big fan of chess. When I was younger I felt obligated to learn the game, I felt like it was the gentleman's game.

June 04, 2015

Right, let’s get the elephant in the room out of the way as this game is… well, let’s just say that the first teaser trailer had a hard time.

May 30, 2015

In the world of Omega Quintet, humanity is under siege from the terrible and almost unstoppable Blair. The Blair are a mysterious foe, who appear without warning to kill anything it finds.

May 28, 2015

Chaos theory is the idea that if one event, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, is changed then a thousand other futures will change along with it.

May 25, 2015

This game was bought for me under the recommendation of my former manager at GAME Bangor. It is an RPG game where you design your own character and venture forth on some grand adventure.

May 25, 2015

Lylat Wars was a game released in the early stages of the N64’s release and it was accompanied by a rumble pack which introduced shock technology to the console. It is a reboot of the original Star Fox game featuring the awesome Fox McCloud and was only released on the N64 originally.

May 24, 2015

Open world survival games are wonderful things, they're one of the few genres that allow for proper gaming immersion outside of VR (virtual reality) gear. Letting the player detach themselves from reality and the pressures of everyday life is a rare thing, and a feature few games can boast to truly achieve.

May 24, 2015

There is something to be said for the simplicity of old school platformers, primarily those that were around in the glorious 16-bit era. Slinki, recently released on Steam, brings back some of those fuzzy feelings through its animalistic protagonist and its gimmicky method of movement and combat.

May 21, 2015

Competitive multiplayer games are nothing new. The concept of multiplay has been the sole, defining feature of the past ten years in gaming. From the Gamecube, which allowed four person madness on titles like Mario Kart and Super Smash Brothers to the general, endless insanity and turmoil millions of us join in every day on the newer consoles.

May 13, 2015

In both episodes one and two, Charnel House has shown itself to be more of a story driven horror mystery with point-and-click elements rather than the mechanics being the central focus. It used Inhale to draw us in by showing us the characters, then kept us watching with the intriguing Sepulchre addition.

May 12, 2015

Jumping straight from the end of Inhale, Sepulchre, episode 2, puts you behind the angst brimmed glasses of Doctor Lang as the train to the port town before Augur Peak takes a bizarre turn for the worse along the way. I say this, but the episode begins rather normally

May 10, 2015

The point and click genre is one of the most creative in the gaming industry, it was right there at the crash during the 80's, which it managed to survive and it became the one of the most lucrative until the early 90's.

May 04, 2015

Reviewing and writing about video games of all genres and ages has become my sole livelihood of late. Whether triple A titles that cost millions and require teams in the hundreds, all the way down to Indie projects that are funded by people been generous with a barely surviving skeleton crew that lives day to day on fast food, I've seen some awesome things.

April 30, 2015

After a very nervous start to Mortal Kombat X on PC, featuring a few days tinkering with the settings and a few patches, things seem to of worked themselves out. I would like to apologise for the lateness for this review but I didn't want to review, well, to be honest: a broken, unplayable mess of a game!

April 28, 2015

With so many good character action games on the market at the moment such as the wonderful 101, metal gear rising revengeance, and Bayonetta 2, it is easy to overlook some of the more hidden gems of the genre. Yakuza 4 is a character action game mixed with certain elements of an RPG and it blends the two genres seemlessly.

April 26, 2015

Bridging game genres is never easy, as mixing fans and mechanics can lead to catastrophic economic failures. Video games that manage to do this however, as among some of the best in existence, seamlessly blending incredible audio, amazing narrative and features that are sought out by millions worldwide.

April 11, 2015

Following straight on from the end of episode one back in February, where we saw our unwitting, but brilliant, heroine Max Caulfield discovering that she had the ability to turn back time after bearing witness to a brutal murder, episode two seeks to build upon the highly emotive events within episode one.

April 07, 2015

When I first saw the screen shots for Project Root, I thought it’s been a good few years since I've played a good bullet hell game. After getting an early code for the Xbox One and a few hours with the controls, I can now safely say that this game is the true logical step for the Strike series that started all the way back on the good old Mega Drive (Genesis for our American friends).

April 06, 2015

Let the truth be told- we’ve all fantasised, in our childhood, of a video game where we could fly spaceships and pit them against one another. One could say that such games idealised the whole arcade genre. Man, those games, for sure, used to make our days!

April 02, 2015

Grinding (with your skateboard, not crotch) and kickflipping your way through OlliOlli 2 is almost great. There is definitely room for a Tony Hawks Pro Skater – Trials HD mash up in the videogame market and OlliOlli 2 is so close to being that game. It has a couple of minor, but crucial problems, however, that hold it back from being a stone cold classic.

April 02, 2015

I'll give Tower of Guns one thing, it's aptly, and perfectly, named. The reason for this is because the first thing you see as you're greeted with the menu options, covering most of the introduction screen, is a massive metal structure comprised of mismatching barrels, tripods and right at the very top, a gun that looks as if it could shoot down planets if it felt like it.

April 01, 2015

I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. The third episode of Telltale’s Game of Thrones series really put the words of the night’s watch into the hands of the player, with it being the first episode that truly feels like something that has been plucked straight from the television series.

March 30, 2015

So here we are, a new R.C car racing game on Steam. Now, I loved playing Sega's R.C Grand Prix way back in the very late 80's and my, was that game fun. Now over 25 years later, we have VRC Pro on PC, this game is much less an arcade knock around and goes much deeper into the simulation category.

March 28, 2015

Card games are wondrous inventions, they allow for hours and hours of endless entertainment with hundreds, maybe even thousands, of variations that all add a new way to play.

March 26, 2015

The second episode picks up where we left off, with the discovery of a secret ATLAS project and the re-emergence of the one and only Handsome Jack, episode 2 continued the humour that has become the moniker of the Borderlands series but.....

March 19, 2015

As the latest iteration of the Battlefield series by EA, Hardline moves away from the explosive warmongering of the armies in games three and four and instead brings it down to a more realistic level. This may sound like a sharp downgrade from the other games, but after playing the previously released PS4 beta a month prior, I'd actually say that I prefer what Hardline offered over the last two titles.

March 16, 2015

You're the last person standing. You don't know if anyone else made it out, all you know is that you survived. There's one tiny, itsy, bitsy problem; you've attracted the unwanted attention of every rotting corpse within a thousand miles. What would you do? You can't outrun the horde, but maybe, just maybe, you can give them something to remember.

March 08, 2015

If the title alone of this game doesn't get you giddy, excited or a mixture of the two together, then it's lost on you. But if you're among the many that loves robots, roller derby’s, disco's or dodgeball, then you're in for a proper treat. This, somewhat psychedelic, electronic and neon fuelled arcade game is the pinnacle of Indie creativity, it makes the player excited just be involved.

March 07, 2015

At times, Switch Galaxy Ultra can be exhilarating. As you speed between barriers, dodging left and right to the sound of electronic music, you can feel the pressure building and your hands tightening around the Dualshock 4. However, these moments, where the game is excellent, are few and far between, sparsely populating a slow and dull game.

March 03, 2015

As many of us gamers will understand, militaristic shooters are highly popular among the community. Video games like Call of Duty, Battlefield, Red Orchestra, Crysis, Halo and Killzone rank as the highest takers of the genre but none of them truly simulate a military training experience. They instead focus on throwing us into a series of explosions and making us feel like we're part of the armed forces.

February 22, 2015

With the current video game market simply oozing the undead and every part of popular culture featuring some mention of their rotten skin or dulled, bestial eyes, it has become incredibly difficult to create an original title that has some flair and creativity to it. Between the copies of the Walking Dead, the 'infected' and the post-apocalyptic dreariness, we have managed to envelop ourselves in them. But creating a somewhat comedic, hack and slash style game where you have to cut your way through the shuffling horde is a step in the right direction.

February 22, 2015

You're the last person standing. You don't know if anyone else made it out, all you know is that you survived. There's one tiny, itsy, bitsy problem; you've attracted the unwanted attention of every rotting corpse within a thousand miles. What would you do? You can't outrun the horde, but maybe, just maybe, you can give them something to remember.

February 17, 2015

We at One Up Gaming have been covering games for over two years now and the one constant in all this time is the fact we have had a weekly podcast running with almost no absences. So we thought what better way to honour our love of doing the podcast than to make a full-fledged documentary with amazing guests and all.

February 16, 2015

I have never been a puzzle game kind of guy. I am able to start one and get many completed levels out of the experience, but there's been many times where I just simply cannot finish it. Honestly, I get bored. I find puzzle games tedious and repetitive, to a point of indifference in completing them. So when I watched the trailer for the game Blek, I was cautious, but at the same time, I was intrigued - Blek looked different. Although I had my personal concerns that this was just another puzzle game, Blek seemed to offer a fresh take on the genre. And it absolutely does.

February 14, 2015

Zelda Majora’s Mask has recently been re-released on 3DS from the Nintendo 64 version that was originally released in April 2000. The original is by far a classic and is considered to be one of the best action-adventure games ever made (I’m sure people said the same thing about Ocarina of Time, but what do I know?).

February 09, 2015

Much like its name suggests, Cities XXL is a city simulator of grand proportions that has the player fabricating entire, sprawling metropolis' inside a world that you created. With the assistance of an AI who looks like he came straight from the noughties, you'll be up and running, right after you've learned everything about the game in the tutorials.