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LOVE Is Free... For The Weekend
By Stuart Walton on 01/09/2010 at 23:08. 4 comments.

LOVE's low-poly yet impressionistic graphics engine is striking and impressive, but not as impressive as some of the tech behind it. The visual representation is just dressing to the data manipulation and networking behind it all. Logging onto a LOVE server yo...

C64 vs Speccy – Bruce Lee
By Tom Scholes on 31/08/2010 at 20:54. 3 comments.

Fighting was something that Bruce Lee was good at. It was the very thing he was famous for, so I thought it apt that I write my first “which version is better” article, Spectrum vs Commodore 64: A fight for the (30-something) ages. A quick warning ...

Moto Racing GP - iPhone Review
By Drew Bower on 30/08/2010 at 10:41. 1 comments.

Having previously reviewed Darxun Game’s first iPhone racing game Xtreme Quad Racing I was curious to see how they had progressed with their latest iPhone racer Moto Racing GP. Whilst not being overly impressed by Xtreme Quad Racing, I gave plenty of enc...

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
By Joe Bennett on 24/08/2010 at 18:38. 7 comments.

Censorship. It’s a topic that can get many normally fairly sane and level headed people lathered up into a sweat, and also one of the mainstays of Ben Elton’s comedy routine. Sure it rattles me a little when Five choose to show a film like Terminat...

Puzzle Dimension Review
By Tom Scholes on 23/08/2010 at 14:28. 3 comments.

I love a good puzzle game. For me it's not just the satisfaction of figuring out the solutions, but also the fact they can be so abstract. A fair break from my normal video game diet of shooting, violence and racing. You certainly don't get much more abstract ...

Demon's Souls Review
By NewYork on 17/08/2010 at 08:07. 12 comments.

Games have gone soft on us. Guitar Hero coddles you with a no fail mode. Prince of Persia has abandoned death in favour of second chances. Super Mario Bros. plays itself. We've become the fat populace of WALL-E: all play, no work, unaware of the harsh world ou...

Castle Of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse - Retrospective
By Tom Scholes on 16/08/2010 at 08:03. 6 comments.

Remember the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis to any Americans out there)? If you’re in your 20s or older then of course you do. Now, do you remember the Mega Drive before Sonic The Hedgehog? It’s hard to think about Sega’s 16 bit console without the...

10 reasons why Black Ops will sell more than MW2
By Richard Horne on 14/08/2010 at 14:02. 18 comments.

Call of Duty: Black will sell more copies than Modern Warfare 2. That’s quite a bold opening statement isn’t it? A game produced by Treyarch, allegedly the Call of Duty franchise’s reserve team, will sell more copies than the most popular ga...

Privates Review
By Tom Scholes on 10/08/2010 at 21:04. 11 comments.

Educational games. Not a genre from our favourite past-time that has many good memories attached to it. In fact I struggled to think of any and had to resort to Googling the subject. And even then the only ones I really recognised were Oregon Trail and Where O...

AvaGlide review - X360 Indie Game
By Joe Bennett on 10/08/2010 at 18:54. 14 comments.

Gaming can be stressful. For a hobby that I would describe as ‘my way of unwinding’, it often does its very best to wind me up. For example, a very nice forumite from another site recently leant me Motorstorm: Pacific Rift for the PS3. There I am l...

Bladerunner - a Retrospective
By Phil May on 09/08/2010 at 15:00. 6 comments.

Back when PC Gamer was my monthly tome of choice, and Virgin still had a videogames arm that wasn’t about anything as naff as a streamed game service, I remember the creeping feeling of horror when it was announced that the 1982 science fiction film Blad...

Sir Fred - a Speccy Retrospective
By Tom Scholes on 09/08/2010 at 07:52. 6 comments.

Ooh the Spanish. They're a bit good at football it seems. Paella too, the world would be a less tasty place without it that's for sure. I'm awfully keen on the idea of a siesta most afternoons as well, it's a great idea – if only my employers would liste...

Rimelands: Hammer of Thor - Hands on
By Drew Bower on 06/08/2010 at 18:24. 0 comments.

Crescent Moon Games clearly don’t do simple. Their iPhone debut - the wonderful RavenSword: The Fallen King – was a very ambitious 3D adventure which received many glowing reviews. Now they have teamed up with Diceworks Games to produce Rimelands: ...

Highway Encounter – ZX Spectrum
By Tom Scholes on 01/08/2010 at 19:04. 6 comments.

So it’s back to the Spectrum again this week. Sir Clive’s creation always gets a lot of attention from me as it was my first computer and my first experience with video games. One game I remember quite vividly is Highway Encounter. Released in 1985...

iPad/iPhone Roundup
By Richard Horne on 01/08/2010 at 18:33. 0 comments.

Flick Kick FootballWhile the vast majority of iPhone and iPad games are very-much-maligned and lacking when compared their traditional console and PC counterparts, there are a lot of games that concentrate on perfectly nailing just one core gaming principle. A...

Hydro Thunder Hurricane Review
By Richard Horne on 28/07/2010 at 20:42. 13 comments.

The people that spend their working days posting on videogame forums are a predictable bunch. When they’re not extolling the virtues of their preferred consoles, they’re either nailing their colours to a best-loved developer’s mast or worship...

Walker - a retrospective
By Tom Scholes on 26/07/2010 at 13:41. 5 comments.

A couple of weeks ago now I took a look at Splat on the ZX Spectrum. At the time I wrote it wasn't a game I particularly liked as a child, but did find some respect for it's simplicity in the end. So I thought I would pick one of my favourites, something I had...

Maestro Green Groove Review
By Alice O'Toole on 23/07/2010 at 13:52. 3 comments.

Once again here at AATG we're lucky enough to have convinced Alice "Monkeyfrog" O'Toole to do a DSiWare review for us. So take it away Alice.... First of all, I would like to draw attention to the fact that this game was incredibly original, fun, and amusing....

Epic Games brings Unreal Engine to iPhone (0) (02/09)
It's just showing off isn't it?

Fallout: New Vegas - All Roads iPhone App now available (0) (02/09)
Get a sneaky peak of what's to come

Cave releasing Dodonpachi Resurrection lite (0) (02/09)
Trial bullet-hell shooter for free

Lucasarts axes 85 staff (0) (02/09)
In 900 years, look as good, you will not!

Tokyo Jungle is animal crackers (0) (02/09)
What could possibly be bad about a game that pits a helpless chick against a pride of lions?

DiRT 3 "less American this time, we promise" say Codemasters (0) (02/09)
Way to go, gnarly dudes, awwwright!

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They do indeed share similarities. Both are editable worlds; with enemies, resources, and crafting. The main difference is in their focus and the granularity of the mechanics, even though both ar...

Tiger_Walts - In response to: LOVE Is Free... For The Weekend - 13h 52m ago.

The curse of the watermark strikes again :)

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Really like that illustration, and the setting sounds like a winner for an adventure game.

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