Gaming

It's hard to forget a game that, within its first 10 minutes, allowed you to gouge out Posidon's eyes, snap his neck and kick his corpse off a cliff. God of War III by virtue of its ferocity alone remains an all-timer. It's gory,…

Our commercial environment has changed significantly over the last few decades. Consumers’ moves toward a preference for engaging with products and services via our digital landscape has thrown up huge challenges that marketers have had to…

As an enduring icon of pop culture, it should come as no surprise that James Bond 007's onscreen antics have inspired a slew of virtual efforts to recreate the vodka guzzling adventures of the British super spy. But conversations around the…

That camera is no help against those raving backwoods cultists. Your lantern will not help you against an encroaching tide of acidic mould and lurching mutants. That flimsy Zippo can do nothing in the face of the demon that lurks in the…

BioWare's last few difficult years is synonymous with one word: "Frostbite". The game development engine, created by Battlefield series developer DICE, has been a thorn in the side of various development companies owned by mega-publisher…

Lost Masters is a series of articles that endeavours to take a fresh look at brilliant games that flew under the radar at the time of their release. This month Gaming Editor Andrew Carroll looks at Hotline Miami.  Hotline Miami was a…

Way back when the HeadStuff Gaming section was still in its infancy I tapped Richard Drumm to write an article on BioShock for the game's tenth anniversary. The article, I think you'll agree, is a satisfying vindication of everything that…

The image of today’s gamer is often none-too-flattering: some scruffy slacker wasting the best years of his life on a grungy couch in his parents’ basement, his eyes cemented to a flashing TV monitor, his hands permanently curled around a…

Lights, Camera, Action Button! is a series exploring film-to-game adaptations in regard to their faithfulness, quality and value long after the original film may have passed into nostalgia. For its first edition Jack Ford looks at Harry…

A headless corpse is awakened in the depths of an island dungeon. With a collection of green, gooey cells for a head the Prisoner must fight their way out of the dungeon, find out what went so wrong on the island and battle towards High…