Games where you have to carry out assassinations are usually pretty cool, right? Not just killing or attacking but slowly and methodically tracking your mark until you can take them out and escape with no-one any the wiser. In Wanted: Weapons of Fate you play the hero from last year’s movie...
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Videogame enthusiasts now live in an era of downloadable content, release-day patches, hotfixes and expansions that occasionally include more content than the original title. All of this conspires to make the critic’s job difficult – are you to review the game as released, or as it might be in s...
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Simplicity in puzzling is key. This, of course, is different from ease. One simultaneously wants to understand a puzzle’s objective without, however, knowing exactly how that objective will be met. Thus classic puzzle games like Tetris found ready-made audiences everywhere they turned, until tryin...
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The very wise Sun Tzu says, in his elucidatory military tome The Art Of War, that “The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.” Bullshit. He obviously never tried getting to grips with [i]Warhamme...
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There’s something counterintuitive, even vaguely off-putting, about a videogame that’s earnestly intended to improve your health. Videogames, as we all know and have heard, are pernicious, sedentary, monotonous activities that promote obesity, strain vision, and engender repetitive-stress injury...
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