Anyone familiar with me by this point will know that if there’s anything that grips me about a game, it’s story and atmosphere. Call me a masochist, but I’m a sucker for sitting in the dark with my hand gripping the mouse so tightly that my knuckles are white, too cowardly to walk around the [...]
Among the Sleep, a game currently in Alpha state and in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign by Norway-based Krillbite Studio , has captured a lot of interest in the past few days, and it’s easy to see why. It is an atmospheric horror game, forcing the gamer to confront their own fragility; drilling into [...]
OneMetal’s newest writer Sara Powell cross-examines the history of Lara Croft and is glad that against all odds, gaming’s flagship heroine has decided to grow up
Leigh Forgie goes deeper underground for a look at Deep Silver’s upcoming post-apocalyptic sequel Metro: Last Light
OneMetal look towards the final frontier for an insight into upcoming third person shooter Star Trek: The Video Game
Ryan Scully revisits a childhood favourite that aims for the air, but bails on landing.
Ryan Scully dives teeth-first into the new Walking Dead game…
The trailer for Assassin’s Creed 3 is here, ready to show you how running, jumping and stabbing will work in a brand new historical context.
Innovation never comes easy to the shooter genre, but the much-heralded Battlefield 3 has arrived sporting the Frostbite 2 engine like a new dress and the opportunity to pour hours and hours into killing people you don’t know. The question is: does it live up to expectations?
Onlive is a new cloud-based gaming system that lets you play brand-new games on virtually any PC, Mac, or on a dedicated console. It promises a lot – Onemetal looks at the UK launch to see if it delivers.
As part of an endeavour to encourage students to pursue science, Peter Allison reveals how Valve has released Portal for free via their Steam network.
What happens when you take the gameplay of Portal and combine it with such concepts as friendship? Kit Harrison finds out.
With just six months to go until the games market is flooded with a series of triple ‘A’ titles, Mark checks out the whopping twelve minute ‘Fault Line’ trailer for Battlefield 3. Slated for a November release, it has already been described by EA is being bigger than Jesus, or something like that.
Excited for Portal 2 but need some urgent clarification of what happened and more importantly, how? Well look no further, as there’s a free web comic that will ease your fragile unprotected minds through this transitional period.
Dragon Age 2, highly anticipated release to the 2009 hit RPG Dragon Age: Origins, was released on 11 March 2011, and almost instantly shot to the top of the multi-platform games chart. Great news indeed for Bioware and EA, but OneMetal’s Rachael Griffiths asks the one important question on everybody’s mind, “is it as good as it predecessor?”
Can’t wait to see what ME3 will look like? Don’t stop bating that breath just yet…
Mark checks out Bulletstorm, the game described by everyone’s favourite Bastion of Decency, Fox News, as the ‘Worst Game in the World’. But even with that kind of endorsement, can Bulletstorm live up to hype and provide some geniune FPS fun in an already congested market?
Some 4 years ago NCSoft and ArenaNet announced the sequel to their Guild Wars series, and fans across the world sat up and paid attention. So what have they achieved in 4 years? Do we think that the game will be work the agonizing wait? Rachael Griffiths, an avid fan of the original Guild Wars series, researches what details have been announced so far.
It’s not often game developers stage a very public appeal for help in creating a game, a MMO no less, but that’s just what Codemasters Online have done. Think you’ve got the chops? Click on to find more details inside!
We take a journey back to the mid sixties and shoot things, lots of things with the latest addition to the Battlefield Bad Company family, Vietnam.