Category: Paul Robert Scott

Great Pub Debate 2014 - The Importance of Indie Gaming

6/8/2014

By Paul Robert Scott

A couple of months ago I got involved in a somewhat heated debate with a chap at the local pub. I’m ashamed to say it even got a little out of hand and (in an inebriated state) I may have said some things that I am not all too proud of. I may have even wagged my finger in his general direction once or twice.

Last-gen gems

5/31/2014

By IWG Games Team

Last generation saw a welcome rise in unique storytelling, enriching gameplay and ultimately some of the most engaging and unforgettable gaming experiences to date. If, like most of us, you still can't afford a next-gen console then why not take a gander at some of last gen's most compelling contributions? We've visited a wide range of genres during our search, and here are our eight final choices.

Contact Vector - First Impression

5/29/2014

By Paul Robert Scott

Space based real-time strategy games tend to be a very niche market. Generally they are followed by ardent gamers that play them for years after the general public has forgotten about them, but still fans for the likes of Homeworld 2 or Sins of a Solar Empire stick loyally to them; with additional mods or total conversions keeping the gameplay experience fresh.

CVG might be shutting down

5/21/2014

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.

Five more of the most disappointing sequels in gaming

5/20/2014

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.

Pranking gamers, Ubisoft-style

5/19/2014

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.

Top 6 movie tie-ins we'd like to play

5/12/2014

By Paul Robert Scott

For gamers there are few things that can induce a simultaneous feeling of both hope and dread quite like hearing that the latest blockbuster film is going to get a video game tie-in. On the one hand we always hope that the developers will get it right and capture the magic of the big screen, but as experience has taught us the end result is just as likely to be a massive let down. Invariably for every Goldeneye we get an E.T., the latter of which now being legendary for being so bad all unsold copies were literally buried; and even more often we are given a game so mediocre that it’ll find itself back in the pre-owned section before a second playthrough. This is often down to the speed in which the games are produced, with designers often pressured to get their project released at the same time as the film it’s based on.

Virtual Reality - Yes or No?

5/6/2014

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By Paul Robert Scott

The future seems rosy for virtual reality. With products like the Oculus Rift and Sony’s Project Morpheus for the PS4 currently wowing tech junkies, and rumours abound that Microsoft will announce their own system for the XBOX One it seems more and more likely that there will come a day when we won’t be playing our favourite games in front of the TV, but with a VR headset strapped over our eyes. But while this certainly sounds like an exciting way forward it is not the first time that the gaming community has been promised a Virtual Reality revolution, and as players have consistently sought greater immersion in their gameplay, so too have developers tried to create new technologies that have turned out to be little more than gimmicks in the long run. In many ways the quest for Virtual Reality has become the white whale of the video game industry.

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Our favourite Star Wars games!

5/4/2014

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by Ben Mapp, Josh Crooks, William John, Luke Kirby, Carla Hodge and Paul Robert Scott

Having a franchise as large and genre spanning as Star Wars has led to some incredible video games to come out of the Star Wars cannon. Here we list our personal fav's in the hope of giving you the reader something good to play on this most geeky holiday. May the forth be with you!