The curse of the movie licence... wwhhooo, spooky Let's face it, movie licenced games tend to suck. There may have been a time when we all looked forward to the latest Spider-man game, but now, who are we kidding, now we generally couldn't care less. That's why we spoke to Clash Of The Titans producer, Tomoaki Nanjo about the difficulties of developing games based on movies... "I believe there are 3 major points we need ...

I ain't scared of no... Necromorphs? Dead Space 2 may be a long way off but the original left us so traumatised we're getting ourselves ready for the inevitable horror onslaught now. The first Dead Space managed to blend lots of sci-fi staple cliche's and terror into a unique and horrible experience, but according to Ian Milham, Art Director on Dead Space 2, the sequel is moving away from the more obvious inspirations... "Although ...

I've played Alan Wake in two different continents, over the past two weeks. That's probably the least remarkable thing about my experience with Remedy's psychological action thriller.

For a little while, now, it's been established that Remedy's upcoming action-adventure thriller, Alan Wake, is no longer an open world title as it was originally planned. Last week, I got to ask writer Sam Lake what happened to that idea.

Just stick your fingers in your ears... It's something everyone has to deal with online; opinion taken to the extreme and voiced with bitter, angry and often racist language. If you're going engage in conversation with anyone on any website, theirs always a danger you'll come across people with no regard to how they voice their opinions. This has come to ahead recently with the release of Rebellion's Alien vs Predator. A quick look at Metacritic will reveal that its received 'mixed to ...

Has Microsoft been a little short sighted? Whatever your views on the two rival consoles are at the moment, it's safe to say that the major difference between the 360 and the PS3 is the fact that Microsoft's console lacks the storage space that Bluray provides. In terms of technical capabilities both the PS3 and the 360 are on a pretty level pegging but as the console generation stretches into the distance, with no end in sight, will Microsoft eventually start feeling ...

I had the fun of going to X10 last week, which, as well as debuting Fable III and Halo Reach to the journalism collective, had the 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII on display. I had a go.

Don't listen to reviews... they're probably wrong anyway According to an interview with Square Enix, FFXIII developers recently released (on CVG.com) explains they try not to listen to game critics too much. Producer Yoshinori Kitase explained that many critics view the first half of the game to be 'too liner' but ignores the criticism explaining that FFXIII is attempting to tell a story and a liner narrative is the best way to draw gamers into the world. Makes sense when you ...

Those of you out there who have followed my monthly scribblings through the pages of X360 will be aware that RPGs haven't exactly, shall we say, floated my boat, as a rule…

After Capcom recently mentioned that it would generate new IP in Japan, from now on, as a result of Dark Void bombing at retail, it makes me wonder how long it'll be before all Japanese publishers rethink their pro-Western development philosophies.

Sonic 4. Sonic 4. How many years we've longed to type that title into a search engine and actually have it come up with something…

The worst 360 games of all time... ever... so far Someone had to do it, we take a look back at some of the lowest scoring 360 games we've ever had the misfortune of putting in our disc drives. Together with our sister site Nowgamer.com, we bring you some of the worst games we've ever played... Fusion Frenzy 2 "Even with online play, we really can’t recommend Fuzion Frenzy 2 on any level. The mini-games are poor, the AI is medically insane ...

Ummm, really? But what about my PSP? In case you missed it, last night Apple revealed the future of computing and technology and that future is a pad. The iPad, from what we can gather is a big ipod touch, sort of. It'll probably be much more powerful and have tons of Aps and what not, but what does all this mean for gamers? If you've invested in Apple's iPhone you may already have some idea. No one would have thought the ...

As is my wont, many hours were spent over the weekend getting up to speed on the areas that are inevitably neglected during busy periods such as, well, the end of last year…

Something occurred to me, about a week ago, when flicking through the innumerable amount of inane posts by my 225 or-so friends on Facebook – I've never played FarmVille. I've never played Mafia Wars. I work in the games industry, write for a bunch of different publications across all formats, and there's an entire of sector of games I'm not even aware of. Should I be?