Critical Gamer: Limbo Review
1037 days 4 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: Limbo doesn’t justify its worth the way that most games do. “Replay value”, “unlockables”, and “online multiplayer” are conc... | Review | Xbox 360
Critical Gamer: Civilization V Preview
1039 days 8 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: Civilization V looks to improve yet again upon its predecessor. During E3, one of the producers at 2K tried to tell us what... | Preview | PC
Congo war minerals in your console: Here’s how to tell them ‘no more’.
1042 days 22 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: Last week, I wrote an article regarding the connection between videogame consoles and computers, and the war in the Congo –... | Article | Culture
On game education and development: “Making games, not just playing them, is the future”
1052 days 5 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: Jan-Pieter van Seventer has ten years of experience in the Dutch game industry as a designer for consoles, PC and handhelds.... | Interview | Culture
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The value of gaming > the value of human lives
1052 days 22 hours ago - Critical Gamer: What would it take to make you think about the fact that your gaming hobby might be contributing to real world suffering? An anonym... | Opinion piece | Culture
Critical Gamer: APB Review
1057 days 6 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: APB (All Points Bulletin) is the hotly anticipated MMO from Dundee based developers Realtime Worlds – best known for Crackdo... | Review | PC
Critical Gamer: Shogun 2 Total War –Trimming a ten year old bonsai tree.
1058 days 5 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: Creative Assembly is going back to the title that started the Total War genre with more than 10 years of experience. Going b... | Preview | PC
Gaming: The Antisocial Hobby
1058 days 13 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: If we were to take what the general media say as gospel about computer games, then we’d all be goths and emos with an unheal... | Opinion piece | Culture
Critical Gamer: E3: Sonic Colors Preview
1058 days 21 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: Neither Sonic Team nor Sega have been good friends with the Sonic loving side of the gaming community these past ten years.... | Preview | Nintendo DS
Thoughts on the New Xbox 360 S
1064 days 5 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: Microsoft took a note from Steve Jobs at last week’s E3, announcing that the new Xbox 360 S would begin shipping to stores i... | Opinion piece | Xbox 360
Critical Gamer: E3: Ghost Recon Future Soldier Preview
1065 days 21 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: Future Soldier looks to be another stand-out title in a strong year for Ubisoft. Taking an already established brand and... | Preview | PC
Critical Gamer: E3: Rock Band 3 Preview
1067 days 5 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: Harmonix and MTV just aren’t satisfied. They can do better. MTV was showing off a bevy of new options this year, includin... | Preview | Nintendo DS
A Link To The Past
1067 days 20 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: For those who are passionate about video games there are few genres that elicit quite the same level of contempt as the much... | Article | Culture
The 3DS can’t fail
1071 days 5 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: If I wasn’t certain about it before E3 there isn’t any room left for doubt; the 3DS will be the most successful handheld of... | Opinion piece | Nintendo DS
Secondary Gaming: The Rise of Let’s Plays
1071 days 14 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: To quote one of our generation’s most eloquent and internationally recognised thinkers on the medium of video games, the Ang... | Opinion piece | Culture
Two Warhammer 40,000 games shown off at E3
1071 days 21 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: It’s quite hard not to like the Warhammer 40k universe. Huge armour, big guns and bigger hammers, split between a huge varie... | News | PC
Critical Gamer: E3: Portal 2 Preview
1072 days 3 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: Valve had more to talk about regarding Portal 2 than just press conferences revealing their own sudden acceptance of the Pla... | Preview | PC
An armchair view of E3 2010: Nintendo
1072 days 22 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: Here we are in time for the big one. Why is this the big one? Well the 3DS is going to be shown for sure and as for other pr... | Article | Nintendo DS
An armchair view of E3 2010: Sony
1073 days 6 hours ago - Critical Gamer writes: Predictions going in: a little hard to judge this time. The new subscription level of PSN played up like it’s a good thing i... | Article | PS2
An armchair view of E3 2010: Ubisoft
1074 days 1 hour ago - Critical Gamer writes: If I’m wrong about that start time it’s because I’m half asleep. Predictions going in: I imagine that Ubisoft will be focusi... | Article | Nintendo DS
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