It is with great regret that we learnt today of the potential closure of the gaming website CVG. Having been announced in a statement the website’s owners, Future plc, are entering into a forty-five day consultation period which may see the selling off of the site’s brand and its eventual shutdown. Beginning in 1981 Computer & Video Games, as it was then known, started out life as the world’s first gaming-orientated magazine. While other publications were generally devoted to the hardware of computing, CVG declared itself fun and entertaining.
By Paul Robert Scott
It is with great regret that we learnt today of the potential closure of the gaming website CVG. Having been announced in a statement the website’s owners, Future plc, are entering into a forty-five day consultation period which may see the selling off of the site’s brand and its eventual shutdown. Beginning in 1981 Computer & Video Games, as it was then known, started out life as the world’s first gaming-orientated magazine. While other publications were generally devoted to the hardware of computing, CVG declared itself fun and entertaining. By Vanessa Hague Batman: Arkham Knight is the third and final installment in Rocksteady's Arkham trilogy and if this gameplay trailer is anything to go by, this game is going to be, for a lack of a better word, epic. Although not much is revealed about the game's storyline in this trailer we do get introduced to some key characters. By Paul Robert Scott It’s one of those subjects that you just can’t help but add to. We all have our own pet hates when it comes to gaming sequels. On occasion the mere mention of some can result in symptoms ranging from quiet weeping to severe nausea, and for certain fans you can still find them rocking in a corner steadily trying to forget the anguish of being let down (I’m looking at you Final Fantasy XIII). But what makes it worse is that on occasion it’s not that these sequels are bad games, it’s just that they simply do not live up to the legacy passed onto them. The following then are just a few that might just have been passable if it weren’t for what they had to live up to, and ultimately failed. By Ben Mapp DC has had its ups and downs in its quest to put together an impressive Superman-themed game, ranging from the horrendous (albeit legendary) Superman 64 to the more recent and mildly better received Superman Returns. Admittedly it’s no easy task to base a game on a character as powerful as the Man of Steel. I mean he can fly, for one. He can exhale strong gusts of wind, for two. He can shoot lasers from his eyes, for three, as well as other crazy-powerful abilities. And all because he comes from a world far, far away. By Paul Robert Scott For a person like me game trailers are rarely things to take notice of. This is usually down to the fact that most are simply used as a form of graphical 'one-upmanship' on the part of developers who simply wish to brag about how shiny looking their latest release is, with perhaps a line or two thrown in to give some idea of plot. By Anne Marie Beach This weekend I got down to play the newly released Qbeh-1 The Atlas Cube,. It is the prequel to Qbeh, a short puzzle-platformer developed by Liquid Flower and inspired by popular titles such as Portal and Minecraft. This prequel, which promises to expand on the gameplay introduced in the original game, has been hotly-anticipated as a consequence. Let's find out why! By Vanessa Hague It's one of the most disappointing feelings a gamer can experience - you fall in love with a game, find out it has a sequel (or sequels), play said sequel and – low and behold – it doesn't quite live up to the expectations. This can be for a variety of reasons; bad story, poor voice acting, clunky and repetitive gameplay - if you can name them, they're probably all in a bad sequel in some form or another. Every gamer, myself included, has fallen prey to a bad sequel. With that in mind, and in no particular order, here are a pick of five worst sequels in gaming. By Ben Mapp Of course, Arkham Origins was a game not without its faults. And as you'll know from all of the reviews which have been out since October, there are a good few! Firstly, the game broke the pattern in the series by being the first installment not to take a huge leap (or – in fact – any leap) in gameplay. By Vanessa Hague Halo 5: Guardians has been announced by Microsoft today with a release date of Autumn 2015, exclusive for the Xbox One. It is unclear at this point whether or not Halo 5 will be split into multiple games, as was the case with 2009's Halo 3: ODST. By Graham Osborne The Metal Gear Solid series has spanned multiple console generations, from the 90’s to present day, and the storyline is becoming more and more convoluted as time goes on. Possibly as an attempt by Hideo Kojima to sabotage the franchise, allowing him to move on (he’s been trying to escape since MGS2!) |
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