In Final Fantasy’s decades-long history, the franchise has always been at the cutting edge of graphics, music and storytelling in games. Integral to each game’s success is the summon system, by which players call upon a powerful supernatural ally to aid them in battle. Though characters and locations vary from ga…

The camera focuses on a pair of high heels stomping up and down on a Wii Balance Board. Voice over man says: “This could be the future of gaming for women”. We are not sure what that means. What? Walking on the spot in impractical footwear? Click the below image, have a look at the

Dr Linda Papadopoulos has published her report on the

We take to the skies and water-bomb forest fires in our first look at this kid-friendly flight game. Kid Adventures: Sky Captain is a Wii game aimed at fulfilling the flight fantasies of younger gamers by putting them in the cockpit of a series of planes and tasking them with a variety of airborne missions. We donned the avi…

Over ten million people own a copy of FFVII.

What’s in a name? Only EVERYTHING! That band you and your friends started probably could’ve been the next Three Doors Down, if only you hadn’t creatively imploded during the early stages of the naming process. Games are no different. …

GamesRadar’s annual Week of Hate is back! What is it? Well, stop interrupting me with questions I pose for you and read, you illiterate bastard: It’s a week of content about the one thing gamers love to do more than play games. It’s a celebration of the bilious loogies we constantly (Tony) hawk at each othe…

Fact: Children are stupid. Their opinions cannot be trusted. So why should we trust ourselves as kids? Why would we believe that any of the stuff we liked when we were younger is still worth liking? Especially something as dependent on current technology and taste as videogames? We shouldn’t. And in this article, we wo…

Sega shows off the first few levels of Sonic’s return to his classic gaming roots. There are few gaming franchises that are as polarizing as Sonic the Hedgehog. On one side, you have fans that are fiercely devoted to the Sonic of old–the fast-paced, side-scrolling games that were immensely popular on the Sega Gen…

True, there are many reasons to love the Legend of Zelda franchise. Its first appearance on NES was a breakthrough that still influences game design to this day, and it’s timeless story of a young hero and a princess in need of rescue will softly whisper through the ages. For all its greatness, though, it is far from p…