Posts By Mat Growcott

Do you own a PC with an internet connection? Have you got even a little amount of money? If the answer to both of these questions is yes, you're absolutely going to have to buy the latest weekly Humble Bundle, which is a picture of absolute value. For a dollar, you get access to DRM-free and Steam copies of Alan Wake: Collectors Edition and to its spin-0ff, Alan Wake's American Nightmare. And that's where the value for money just begins.

After months of rumblings, Warner Brothers have officially announced Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition for the PC. After the game turned up on SteamDB and people were shown to be playing it through opensteamworks, it was more or less a foregone conclusion, but core gamers will be happy to see this one come to fruition.

Peter Molyneux was a guest on IGN's Xbox One coverage earlier, and he said something that got me thinking. They were talking about the release date and the difference between "worldwide" and "around the world," and the difference that that wording might imply. Molyneux was pretty certain that the wording was important, that everything said and shown would have been very carefully selected to give off a very specific vibe. How can a conference so lovingly put ...

If you've been on a social network in the last few hours, you'll probably have an idea of how the Xbox One reveal has gone down. In the eyes of some people: well. In the eyes of others: terribly. It all depends what you use your 360 for. The very least that can be said is that they know their basic audience. Are you ready to shell out on the Xbox One?

This may not come as a surprise to those who sat and watched the press conference, but the wild cheering and applause that was heard after each and every announcement was in no way coming from members of the press. It was almost definitely coming from the area of the room reserved for Microsoft employees… This has been hit home thanks to a number of Tweets from various members of the gaming press present at the event tonight. The wild…

After the teaser trailer released last week, I'm happy to report that this actual trailer is a little meatier on content. It still contains a little much in terms of splash screens (what trailer doesn't?), but there's also some actual content this time around as well. The "official trailer" gives us our first look at Gotham, although it's a very cinematic look, not made with the game engine.

If your first reaction to seeing this poster isn't a scrunched up face and a slight shake of the head, you're perhaps a little gullible. A poster for Resident Evil 7 has appeared online. Although it's almost certainly fake, there's also, I suppose, a slim possibility that it might end up being real, and that Capcom are continuing the story of Resident Evil 6 in the same engine and with many of the same assets.

Velocity was constantly named one of the best PlayStation Minis and ended up ranked as one of the best games available on PSP. It amazed critics and placed FuturLab firmly as a company to watch, a was the game that seems to have cemented their relationship with Sony and gotten them work on both PlayStation Mobile and now PlayStation Vita. A little more than twelve months after the release of the original, FuturLab have remade Velocity as a full blown Vita ...

If you've heard of Game Dev Tycoon, there's a good chance it's for one of two reasons. Either you've seen the story of their day one anti-piracy stunt, in which developer Greenheart Games uploaded a version of their game to torrent websites, a version in which your games are violently pirated and never make any money, or because of the accusation that Game Dev Tycoon is basically Game Dev Story slightly reworked. Either way, you're probably starting your ...

Level-5 have today announced the release of The Starship Damrey, a sci-fi adventure game for the 3DS. This was first announced as coming westward in the last Nintendo Direct, and places players into a rather odd role. Placed aboard a starship, the player is simply dropped into the game and are left to work out who they are and why they’re there. If done well, that could be very effective, especially since The Starship Damrey has an almost horror-like ...

Made by a team led by Tomasz Gop, the senior producer on The Witcher 2, Lords of the Fallen is a new next-gen action RPG due in 2014. Described in the press release with words like “challenging” and “demanding,” this might be one to watch for fans of Dark Souls and its ilk. With rich RPG elements and a focus on a rich fantasy world in which humans have been abandoned by their gods, aficionados of the genre can expect…

The point of a teaser trailer is to get the audience excited about something while saying absolutely nothing about that title. This teaser for Arkham Origins fits the latter part of that description perfectly. At forty seconds long, the first ten seconds are of various splash screens, and the last twenty seconds are about as lively. The short gap between these two sets of logos is filled with a fight scene that tells us absolutely nothing about the game that we ...

It's impossible to judge Deadly Premonition on any traditional scale. The graphics are laughable, the gameplay bland and repetitive, the basic mechanics borderline broken and the script filled with (hopefully intentional) cheesy lines. It is, by almost any measure, a terrible game. Except it isn't.

Penguin Party is a new PlayStation Mobile title available on PlayStation certified devices and Vita, and although a lot of core gamers will dismiss it based on its design and content, the child-friendly visuals and anthropomorphic penguins hide what's actually quite a challenging puzzle game, and a title in the same vein as old favourites like Chu Chu Rocket.

Square Enix have today released a fresh batch of screens for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. Showing off some beautiful landscapes, you can tell XIV is a Final Fantasy game regardless of its MMO-status. If nothing else comes of A Realm Reborn and it releases to another round of "meh," at least those who enjoyed the original release and are looking to continue supporting Square will have some nice things to look at.