Craig Fairbrass played Ghost, Roach in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Audiences fell in love with his cockney accent and he was hired again as Sgt. Walcroft in Modern Warfare 3. Although he wasn’t up for a gong tonight, Fairbrass was presenting the award for Design in games. You may [...]
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BAFTA Interview – Jonathan Ross
Jonathan Ross was at the BAFTA Game Awards to present The Game of the Year Award. As funny and energetic as ever, he was kind enough to stop and take a few questions us and other members of the media. (M= Media, JR =Jonathan Ross) M: What award are you here to present tonight? JR: [...]
BAFTA interview – Ashley Walters
Ashley Walters has shot to fame since leaving So Solid Crew. He’s been in many different tv shows and films including Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Bullet Boy and Demons Never Die . Most recently he starred in Channel 4’s gritty drama Top Boy. [...]
Yasuhisa Kawamura is “ashamed” his Resident Evil project was scrapped
Resident Evil 3′s scenario writer Yasuhisa Kawamura has revealed some of his thoughts on the survival horror [...]
Weirdest games adverts
The games industry is a pretty new one and it still hasn’t quite learned how to best portray the feeling of games within a short advert. This has led to some of the best, worst and down right weirdest adverts that you will ever see. Everything from a crazy Sega Saturn superhero to a David [...]
Game inspired music
Games are a special kind of medium that can move people like no other. So much so that many have found themselves singing and rapping about their favourite titles, making some truly amazing pieces. The amazing “Letter to Square Enix” from Richie Branson got us thinking other tracks inspired by video games. Everything from Hyrule’s [...]
Introduction into Con-Fashion
Gaming and Anime Conventions have existed for quite some time now creating a medium for people with common interests to gather in large forums and events. Upon stepping on the showroom floor a flash of badges, pop-culture references and insane DDR floor mashing instantly remind one that the topic at hand isn’t merely a hobby [...]
Does SFxT show DLC getting out of control?
Before the start of this gen there was talk of a thing called downloadable content. I remember that loads of gamers were scared by this notion. Game developers could release new missions, game modes and various other add ons. Unlike the PC, console gamers would rarely get any of this [...]
Developers, Y U NO try?
In the past few decades we were able to see video games’ production quality surpass many other forms of entertainment such as TV and film. Development processes can range from the non-budget and darkest indie basements to the most top of the line publisher behemoths, though this isn’t necessarily reflected in their quality. In the [...]
Gaming’s forgotten time periods: The American Civil War
It is 2012, and there are games covering almost everything I can think of, some topics I can’t think of, and things I can think of, but would rather not. Some game designers seem to be running out of ideas and simply knock out the same tired old format each year, yet there are still topics and time periods left relatively untouched in the world of gaming, and I want to know why. This will be [...]