UK Games

5 Surprises To Hope For From Microsoft's Xbox Reveal

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 21.05.2013 | UK Tech

Microsoft is set to unveil the next Xbox later on Tuesday at a massive, live-streamed press conference. It's pretty obvious that the new machine wi...

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GREAT APE: Donkey Kong Country Returns 3DS

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Rundle | Posted 20.05.2013 | UK Tech

The history of Nintendo's key franchises is more complex than three seasons of Game of Thrones, run backwards, in French. Take Mario, (deep breath)...

What Happens When Somebody Plays With The Same Pokemon For 11 Years?

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 17.05.2013 | UK Tech

Remember the man who played Civilisation II for more than a decade, ending up with a world wracked with blood, fire and nuclear death? This is like...

Nintendo To Profit From Fan Videos Uploaded To YouTube

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 17.05.2013 | UK Tech

Nintendo has announced that it will now profit from videos uploaded to YouTube that feature its games. The Japanese gaming giant said that the new ...

What Happened When A Gamer Gender-Flipped Her Boss's Sexist Artwork...

Hawkeye Initiative | Hawkeye Initiative | Posted 15.05.2013 | UK Tech

Games Worker Gender-Flips Boss's Sexist Artwork With This......

The Future of Survival Horror

Matthew Highton | Posted 14.05.2013 | UK Tech
Matthew Highton

Hopefully the genre can evolve again and fans both old and new can take a step back into the world of survival horror. For any game developers reading this, allow me to close with a few ideas for future survival horror games

Oculus Rift VR Headset Turned Into 'Guillotine Simulator'

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 07.05.2013 | UK Tech

An unexpected and chilling - but also strangely intriguing - use of the Oculus Rift VR headset has seen a team of developers build a guillotine execut...

Preview of Lost Planet 3 from Capcom

Andrew Edney | Posted 01.05.2013 | UK Tech
Andrew Edney

I enjoyed playing both the single and multiplayer modes. For single player, it look a little while to get into, but once the action kicked off there was no stopping it. The facial expressions on the various characters are done really well, as are the graphics in the game.

The 'Age of Creativity' and Making Video Games

Michael De Piano | Posted 18.04.2013 | UK Tech
Michael De Piano

A little while ago I stumbled across a rather inspiring blog post by Sir John Sorrell, the Chairman of the London Design Festival and the Arup Design ...

Woman Buys Old Video Game, Turns Out To Be Worth $15K

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 17.04.2013 | UK Tech

A woman who bought an ancient video game in a charity shop for $7.99 has just become $15,000 richer. The lucky shopper picked up a copy of Stadium ...

Imaginary Relationships: Games, Books and Interactivity

Dave Morris | Posted 28.03.2013 | UK Tech
Dave Morris

People nowadays think of gamebooks as rather old hat - and, after all, it was twenty years ago. In their heyday, though, they were a phenomenon, selling upwards of a hundred thousand units per title. And it's not as old hat as you might think.

Star Wars and Selling Things for Free

Pete Giblin | Posted 14.05.2013 | UK Tech
Pete Giblin

Free games are nothing new, but high quality free games are. Usually it's some tat like FarmVille that looks cheap and the gameplay is ridiculously basic. While there are some fairly minor restrictions, SWTOR allows free-to-play players to play the entire game. All the way to level 50, the highest level in the game so far. They are literally giving their product away for free.

Climate Fun Was a Game Changer

Paula Owen | Posted 15.05.2013 | UK Tech
Paula Owen

People may have thought we were just having a laugh but our games night at the London Science Museum was a winner for the environment. More than 100 people turned up to play a variety of family favourites including eco bingo, giant human sized eco snakes and ladders, and a food footprint game.

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Gaming's Greatest Visionary On Faith, Big Ideas And The Art Of Video Games

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Rundle | Posted 15.03.2013 | UK Tech

As the creator of BioShock, one of the best reviewed games of all time, Irrational Games creative director Ken Levine has a lot to live up to. Most...

A New Age For Poker

Victoria Coren | Posted 12.05.2013 | UK Sport
Victoria Coren

The new card room at the Hippodrome, meanwhile, is clearly built for fun. The Hippodrome itself is a social space, and always has been. It is huge, with a spangly bar, a smart restaurant and a very good smoking terrace for those who like that sort of thing.

MoMA Is Right: Video Games Are Art

Arion McNicoll | Posted 10.05.2013 | UK Tech
Arion McNicoll

It is only by looking at the highlights of a medium that one may judge whether it is art or not. Even a cursory glance at some of gaming's recent successes shows why MoMA is now putting Pac-Man alongside Picasso and Pollock.

'Journey' Leads Indie Charge As Big Budget Titles Lose Out At Baftas

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 05.05.2013 | UK Tech

Indie developers, download-only titles and low-budget hits were the big winners at the Bafta Games Awards. Only four big-budget, boxed games won aw...

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Why Games Writing Has Never Been More Important - Or Accessible

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Rundle | Posted 05.05.2013 | UK Tech

Who writes video games? Fifteen years ago the answer wasn't obvious - with the odd exception it was usually a mix of coders, artists, marketing people...

What Does The Games Press Think Of The New 'SimCity'?

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 05.05.2013 | UK Tech

'SimCity' is one of the all-time, definitive video game classics. The city-builder and urban simulator has always given players a unique and charming ...

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Crysis 3 Review: Welcome To The Urban Jungle

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Rundle | Posted 24.04.2013 | UK Tech

Crysis 3 (Xbox 360, PS3, PC) is a sci-fi first-person shooter set in a post-apocalyptic, tropical New York City. You play as 'Prophet', a human-al...

Is This The PS4 Controller You'll Be Holding By Christmas?

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 17.04.2013 | UK Tech

An early prototype of the new Sony PlayStation 4 controller has leaked online. The controller is very similar to the existing DualShock gamepad, bu...

Wii U Sales 'Collapse' Reports Gamasutra

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 16.04.2013 | UK Tech

Nintendo has a problem. According to the gaming website Gamasutra, the Japanese gaming giant sold "well under" 100,000 Wii U consoles in January. ...

'You Need A Straight Piece? That'll Be 69p'

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 15.04.2013 | UK Tech

EA has announced a freemium version of Tetris. That's right, fresh from angering fans by revealing that Real Racing 3 would join the 'play for free...

Aliens: Colonial Marines Reviewed With A Single GIF

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 13.04.2013 | UK Tech

The reviews for Aliens: Colonial Marines, Gearbox's latest addition to xenomorph lore, are in. And they're bad. In fact, it's pretty much the worst...

Playing Climate Games with Nature for Keeps

Tomas Rawlings | Posted 01.04.2013 | UK Tech
Tomas Rawlings

The seed of this game came from the fact that the Kyoto protocol recently expired with nothing to replace it. Basically CO2 emissions are going up and up and collectively not much is happening to bring them down. We'd like to think that reality works the way we'd imagine it should but it doesn't always.