Minecraft
The World is Flat
One man’s journey to the end of Minecraft.
Brendan Keogh
Columns
The War Must Go On
Brendan Keogh examines the overlap between games and cinema via the Modern Warfare series and asks how much control the player has or even wants.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Character Building
Growing up on Grove Street
Article
Freedom in Alcatraz
Brendan Keogh on the great freedom of being trapped inside a body. In our first column on playable characters, we look at the bionically augmented Alcatraz from Crysis 2 and the lessons learned from Shawshank Prison.
Review
Review: Terraria
Terraria is the anti-Minecraft. It’s too bad it was released too early. Brendan Keogh explores Terraria‘s potential despite its lack of refinement.
Time Crisis II
40 Seconds of Fame
The rise and rise of a light-gun aficionado
Review
Review: Ninja
A game to make you feel like a 10-year-old on the playground again.
Article
A Sackboy Says No Words
Helen calls them the “Hurrah!” buttons. L2 + R2 + both analog sticks held upwards. Whenever she wins the most points on a LittleBigPlanet level, she presses these buttons, and her grinning Sackgirl lifts both arms in the air in wordless celebration. My Sackboy, meanwhile, tends to scowl and storm of
Article
Crossing King Carrion
King Carrion is a U-shaped canyon. Meat Boy starts atop the left-hand cliff, works his way down to the base, bunny-hops across platforms suspended over insta-death maggots to obtain a series of keys, and then climbs up the right-side cliff, where Bandage Girl awaits. Apart from several enemies and b
halo
Game Type: Capture the School
When the power cut the Halo match short, eight teenagers carried its rules across the road and turned their empty high school into the map.