Have fun with programming...no, really!

Respected games journalist Kieron Gillen has collaborated with the BAFTA award winning animation/game studio Little Loud and together (with more than a little help of the always willing to 'stick-it-to-the-man' British TV channel 4) have created a sort of 90's CD-ROM FMV style, Orwellian, episodic adventure game. Putting my overuse of verbs aside, the game's actually quite all-right...

I've played games such as MAG, where you have anywhere up to 250 people fighting each other on one map, numbers which are far greater than the 24 players on every BC 2 match, but still BC2's matches always feel grander. This is due to many factors but crucially, it's the sound design that helps sell the experience to the player...

If I could choose only two words to describe Continuity they would be ‘ingenious’ and ‘diabolical’.

Cut It, the level based puzzle game by the ever experimental Petri Purho is a game in which you harness physics and gravity to do your bidding in getting a white block to a green platform using an interesting mix of making cuts in objects and preying they fall the way you want them to.

Coma is weird. That weirdness is good. Really good actually. It captures the weird uncontrolled randomness and horrifyingness your dreams can posses through simple adventure game and platforming mechanics.