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Thistle Games: Spring Preview

The ice has just about thawed, so it’s time for a quick Spring Preview. We’re planning the now usual coverage of tabletop RPGs, graphic novels, boardgames and exceptional videogames:

The 2010 E3 show is near and videogame companies are already in a frenzy. There’ll be a lot of talk about Grand Theft [...]

Top 10 Ways To Save Money on Games: Update 1

Amazon UK has posted some excellent ‘Half-Term Deals’. The offers include a few of the best videogames we’ve looked at in recent months. If you live in the UK, or nearby, Sims 3, Darksiders and Dragon Age: Origins are among the most heavily discounted titles.

We also noticed the first signs of [...]

Hardware Heaven

The year ahead promises a rash of new technologies, with touch tablets, new graphics cards from AMD and nVidia, and more fast PC processors on the way. Console upgrades and motion controllers from both Sony and Microsoft can also be expected sooner rather than later.

Intel Core i7 Processor i7-920 2.66GHz

Top 10 Ways To Save Money On Games

Got to have that new game on the first day of release? Totally ‘blown away’ by the cover art? Can’t wait to start shooting any zombie Nazis that might have escaped last time?

If so, not to worry, there are millions of fellow sufferers. The games industry’s ‘marketing men’ have disengaged your [...]

Videogames: 2010 Page Posted

Just added a feature length post on this year’s videogame releases here. We don’t doubt that you’ve read a few of these in the last couple of months. However, our suggestions are more to do with finding novelty and good gameplay than simply reporting on the titles with the highest budgets.

The [...]

Touch Technologies and Gaming: Update 2

Nintendo recently released statements about being in no rush to produce an upgraded Wii console and a policy of delaying hardware releases until software support is in place. It was also suggested that the next versions of Zelda and Metroid Prime for the Wii would not be arriving any time soon.

With [...]

Good To Be Bad: Darksiders and Dante's Inferno

Two new RPG titles for the PS3 and XBox 360 have sparked further controversy about videogame content. Darksiders puts players in charge of one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, while Dante’s Inferno takes players on a combative tour of Hell.

There have been ‘protests’ against both titles and Darksiders has [...]

Christmas 2009: 7+

Keeping children occupied without sending them off on their own doesn’t need to be hard work. Our suggestions for kids of 7+ can fit in the living room and be as entertaining for adults as for kids. They also present plenty of opportunities to help children get started on an activity or to [...]

Assassin's Creed 2: Which Limited Edition?

Add-ons and fillers don’t usually catch our attention. Until we heard about a certain confusion over different versions of Assassin’s Creed 2. The differences between the PS3, the XBox and the delayed PC versions are obvious when ordering. We went online to check on the differences between the different limited editions.

Those [...]

Assassin's Creed 2 v's The Rest

As Christmas approaches the traditional wave of blood-drenched first-person shooters and slashers is cleaning up at the stores. This year’s crop includes Borderlands, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Wolfenstein, Left 4 Dead 2 and Uncharted 2.

Most of these kind of games are glorified Space Invaders dressed up for the 21st [...]

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