NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.. I’ll start with the good news. We finally have a fixed date for the PC version of Batman: Arkham City. Now to the bad news. It’s a full month away. On today of all days, when the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions launch across North America and just three days before the UK …
Hey everyone! Our buddy Armand K, Bits ‘n’ Bytes Gaming editor lowly writer and lucky dog, somehow found the time to attend IndieCade – the international festival of independent games, now in its fourth year – down in Culver City. He must have had a lot of caffeine in him, because somehow the dude managed …
About a month ago just before the run up to the Eurogamer expo 2011 (which Mat C and myself covered here), Joel Goodwin, a.k.a. Harbour Master of Electron Dance, posted up a discussion the two of us had about our experience with the little miracle that is the Portal 2 co-op campaign entitled Men of …
I almost let the most recent Humble Bundle pass me by. I typically snap up the bundles immediately, but the centerpiece this time is Frozen Synapse, a tactical game, and I’ve never been a big player of tactical games, even of the indie variety. However, I finally took the plunge the day I saw they …
![[UPDATE] RAGE: It’s A Looker – Now With Extra Technical Support](https://tap-repeatedly.com/wp-content/uploads/strikingr/images/17929_matc_rage-628x200.jpg)
Over the course of this weekend, it’s almost seemed as though I’ve spent as much time tweaking RAGE as I have actually playing RAGE. If you’ve been following the launch of the PC version, you’ll know that it’s just that sort of game. The beauty of PC gaming however is that as much as these inconveniences can …
I’ve spoken to ArenaNet’s lead writer, Bobby Stein before, but after playing Guild Wars 2 at the Eurogamer Expo last month he was kind enough to get in touch to see how I got on. Despite my initial reservations most were unfounded, but there were still just a couple of things I wasn’t entirely happy with. With …
The 2011 Interactive Fiction Competition, often referred to as IF Comp, is underway! If you’re totally unfamiliar with the concept, now I can introduce to you another one of my random gaming passions. The IF Comp judges modern-day text games. These are new games, written in a style frequently associated with old games, where one …
Review by Max “Xtal” Boone Ico (Remastered) Developer Team ICO / Bluepoint Games Publisher Sony Computer Entertainment Released September 27, 2011 Available for PS3 Time Played Completed Verdict: 5/5 Gold Star “My greatest fear of overturning one stone too many– disturbing the memories I had from my original experience– was something not to be realized. Within fifteen minutes …
Review by Zach “Ravious” Best The Binding of Isaac Developer Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl Publisher Edmund McMillen Released September 28, 2011 Available for PC Time Played Too Much Verdict: 5/5 Gold Star “The Binding of Isaac is fully saturated with gameplay. If players can get past the grotesque art style and abrasive story, …
Where to begin with a first impressions of Star Wars: The Old Republic? There is a lot riding on it for Bioware, a developer synonymous with in depth RPGs and branching storylines. But combine their experience with the Star Wars licence and an MMOG and that is surely a recipe for success. Right?