Zen Studios’ latest entry into the intensely popular Pinball FX2 & Zen Pinball cannon is upon us in the form of Epic Quest which will be available on XBLA for a mere 240MSP.

As you can see from the video, Epic Quest attempts to introduce RPG elements into classic Zen Studio pinball action. We are extremely fortunate therefore to have GalfordDWeiler, one of the world’s top Pinball FX2 players available to give us some early hints on this table’s features that may just give you an edge when competing on the …

Quarrel is a new word based competitive puzzle game for up to four players online and offine. It’s also quite a steal at a mere 400msp from XBLA.
Check out the video review.
Verdict 8/10

No game has me more excited or burdened by anticipation than ‘Rainbow6:Patriots.’ Still clinging to its 2013 release date, details on this installment are slowly but surely beginning to emerge from Ubisoft. As part of the Tom Clancy universe, RB6 maintains its place in history as the quintessential squad-based tactical shooter focusing on close-quarter engagements, nail-biting tension, & the perfect amount of “realism.” But it’s been several years now since the last installment and the “battlefield” has quite literally changed.
Disclaimer: The ‘RB6:Patriots’ information referenced within was compiled from several media …

How do you make the sequel to the greatest super-hero video game of all time? Well that’s was the question on the mind of many when UK developer Rocksteady scored big with the 2009 smash Batman: Arkham Asylum.
Where Rocksteady succeeded with Arkham Asylum was to make you actually feel like Batman – The World’s Greatest Detective (TM). My Game Of The Year for 2009, mixed stealth, puzzles, exploration, gadgetry and being a badass together superbly.
I therefore had massive hopes for the sequel, Arkham City when it was announced as surely …

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Gamers are trendsetters. Why else would we have such bad reputations if it weren’t for our uncanny ability to generate stereotypes about ourselves.  There’s the pot smoking COD player, the stinky expo queuers, the stunningly handsome amateur podcasters, etc.  …

Am I clearly insane?
Having heard about the phenomenon Demon Souls on the PS3 and its mix of hardcore hack ‘n slash, exploration and reward, I was interested when From Software announced that the spiritual successor, Dark Souls, was coming to the 360.
To say that Dark Souls hasn’t been hyped by the gaming press is somewhat of an understatement. Indeed, for the past couple of weeks my twitter feed has been buzzing about the game with gushing games journalists it being described as unforgiving and rewarding in equal measure. A bit …

Playable on the show floor at the eurogamer expo was Operation Guillotine, a brillaint single-player  mission taken from Battlefield 3 set on the outskirts of Tehran. You play as Sgt Henry Blackburn of the 1st recon marines and our mission is to provide back up to the assault on a apartment block being used as an enemy base. After a lot of talking on the radio the order comes in and you find yourself having to leg it down a hill and under a bomb-blasted overpass as enemy fire rains …

Prepare to watch me eat a hat. Sort of…
Avid listeners of the 360Gamercast podcast will know that I seriously put a nice size 12 boot into the single player Driver San Francisco demo a few weeks back. I still maintain that the demo I played back then was a befuddled mess. It focused on three fairly disjointed missions that introduced this new “body shift” mechanic main Driver honcho, Tanner could now pull off. The best way to describe it then was kind of The French Connection crossed with The Matrix …

Relics. That is what pinball tables are these days. Testament to a by-gone age in the 1970s and 1980s where pinball was king and gaming, in part was a spectator sport. Unfortunately the video game boom of the 1980s began to signal the end for pinball machines as Pac Man, Space Invaders and Asteroids took over. Suddenly the easy to upkeep and profitable arcade cabinet look like a better investment than the more expensive to repair (if even a single part went wrong), pinball machine.
Now we’ve come full circle. A …

Game: Call of Juarez: The Cartel
Developer: Techland
Publisher: Ubisoft
Released: July 22nd 2011
Platform: PC, Xbox360, PS3
As if ripped from the headlines; Mexican drug lords are fed up with the U.S. cracking down on their operations and have begun to strike back.  Their terrorist acts targeting American law enforcement agencies have prompted the U.S. to take action to subvert & destroy The Cartel by any means necessary. But for this mission they need a certain breed of officers; those unencumbered by silly ethics, self-respect, or the rule of law. In …