Posts By Mat Growcott

We've all heard the jokes that Lightning is just Cloud with a change of hair colour and a slightly more feminine physique. Well, now it might be coming part of the Final Fantasy XIII canon...

Did you hear the one about Microsoft thinking they owned Donkey Kong?

Halo 3 and Assassin's Creed II will be free at some point in the future, but not now. Instead, Microsoft are offering Defence Grid: The Awakening

The Vita, when it was announced, was a machine for FPS games on the go. Although every game benefited from that second stick for camera control, being able to play a shooter without severely hampering the experience was a major plus. The first shooter to be released for the console, Resistance: Burning Skies, came out months after the Vita's launch. That was only mistake number one.

Insert Coin, the well respected gaming t-shirt store, have today announced that they’re working with Sony on a range of PlayStation-inspired designs. Little else was said, or at least no specific designs were announced, but they did say that they’ve looked at the full Sony range – “From Kratos to Sackboy, PaRappa to Nathan Drake” – to help create exciting, stylish designs that you’ll definitely want to wear if ...

Amazon UK have subtly added the ability to buy digital titles from their store. This is an expected development, but one that seems to have been embraced with little to no hype or excitement.

Mastertronic have today announced The Serious Sam Collection for Xbox 360.

Phil Tossell, a former employee of Rare, the team behind Banjo Kazooie, Perfect Dark, Goldeneye and Kameo, has revealed that there was a culture clash when the company was bought out by Microsoft.

Knights of Pen and Paper is a game designed to take you back to a time when a group of likely slightly smelly individuals would sit around a table, getting engrossed in a story of their own creation. By lovingly combining table top RPG with the gameplay devices of late eighties/early nineties, Behold Studios have created a game that is both nostalgic and fresh, seriously fun and, at times, frustratingly true to its source.

State of Decay - the XBLA title our very own Joe Ryan described as "the zombie game that people have been asking about for ages" - has been refused classification in Australia. This is the second game in the last week to be effectively banned from sale in the country.