Chris Priestman

MURDER turns a playground game into Shakespearian regicide

Shakespeare may have spoiled the concept of regicide for everyone with Macbeth. We associate the term with the murder of a king, which is its correct meaning, but more specifically there might be an expectation for this murder to be part of a violent and very personal usurping of that king.

Ragdoll Nazis make Wolfenstein 3D a comical shooter

I like shooting hands. Call it a fetish if you will. It’s rooted in my time spent with Goldeneye 007 for the N64. It was among the first shooters to have body-hit detection, which meant you could aim the reticule at, say, an innocent scientist’s hand, fire a bullet into it, and for about a minute (

Get your fix of destruction in Where Is My Hammer

Where Is My Hammer lets you destroy a whole house, its contents, and the car parked outside with a large mallet. You can chip away at the structures carefully, causing cracks in pillars so you can sit back and watch as it slides in half before collapsing. Or you can rush in with a red-hot charged ha