Posts By Mat Growcott

The combat in Dark sucks. By extension, this means almost all of Dark sucks, as it's built, by and large, around this idea of combat. You see, it's a little known fact that vampires can only clumsily walk up to enemies, bash them over the head or suck their blood, making loud slurping noises like granny at Christmas and alert everybody within a five mile radius.

There's an awful lot of evidence pointing to tomorrow being the beginning of the famous Summer Steam sale. Some of it has been going around for weeks, with database updates and current sales ending abruptly pointing to the fact that something is going on, and it's happening tomorrow.

With the latest gameplay trailer, we’ve been able to capture a new set of Grand Theft Auto V screens that show of the world you’ll be exploring later this year. Along with some returning old favourite features – like the ability to buy real estate – Grand Theft Auto V also allows you to play tennis, sky dive, collect bounties, play the stock market and much, much more.   In these Grand Theft Auto V Screens, we’ve tried to grab ...

You've waiting long enough for it and today Rockstar have delivered. Within the four minutes or so that make up this Grand Theft Auto V gameplay trailer, you'll learn everything you need to know about transferring from character to characters, about shooting and driving, about things you'll do when not on a mission and you'll even get your first glimpse of Grand Theft Auto Online.

There will be some new single player Aliens DLC. Stasis Interrupted will be the final piece of DLC linked to the Colonial Marines season pass and the first piece of single player DLC made available. The four or five people who have been waiting patiently for some single player Aliens DLC (or any Aliens DLC for that matter) since launch probably won't be able to buy it, as they're not allowed access to money lest they spend it on silly things like Aliens: ...

Square Enix and PlayStation have released a Final Fantasy X HD comparison video showcasing the differences between the PS2 and PS3 versions of Final Fantasy X. Showing off the introduction, you'll see clearer character models, better lighting and textures and more screen real estate.

Sony have today announced that The Last of Us sales have surpassed 3.4 million, both physical and digital. This is a pretty fantastic achievement for Naughty Dog and for Sony, who put a lot of marketing into a new IP at the tail end of a generation. The Last of Us was critically acclaimed, and it seems like it might just end up as a commercial success as well.

Lovefilm have today released an email to subscribers explaining their changing gaming services, and also apologising for not releasing the news themselves. You may have already heard reports about changes to Games rental as part of the LOVEFiLM service. We're very sorry if any information about service changes reached you by third party or media reports, rather than first coming from us.

Apogee Software have discovered the Blake Stone source code and are releasing it to fans. Blake Stone: Planet Strike was a 1994 FPS from around the same time as Doom. Nearly twenty years after its release, the source code (which was presumed missing) will allow fans to look into how Blake Stone was built.

Final Fantasy VII is a classic. Its story, its score, its mechanics - for many this was the game that defined what RPGs should be. With another re-release, this time on Steam, Square Enix proves time is no barrier to a decent game, although a little polish might serve to get rid of the dust.