Sam Robinson - who has written 40 posts on nukoda.com.
The love child of Charlie Brooker and Frankie Boyle, Sam graduated from the University of Sheffield with a black heart and a Journalism degree. When he's not tearing games/films/people to shreds you can find him in the kitchen cooking up a storm.
Desperate Escape is the content I hate to love. The previous content, Lost in Nightmares, took a step back to the roots of survival horror leaving me both happy at this attempt at change and sad that there was something lacking. In some ways Desperate Escape is similar to it’s predecessor: it lasts less than two hours; it [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 9, 2010
After a week of not-so-subtle hinting, Valve have announced that Steam and the Source engine will be making an appearance for Mac users. This means that Mac users will get access to Valve’s range of games such as Left 4 Dead 1 & 2, Counter-Strike, Portal and the Half-Life series as well as future games like the newly announced Portal 2. Steam will launch in April [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Hitting the Xbox Live marketplace this week is a sense of deal ja vu. Yes, this week’s deal is the Call of Duty: World at War map pack bundle, now 1600 Microsoft points instead of 2000 MSP. So if you still haven’t picked them up yet you’ve got until 15 March before this deal disappears [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 6, 2010
I’ve always had fond memories of the Resident Evil games. My fascination began as a kid when I found a beaten copy of the first game in the bargain bin of the Nottingham branch of Dixons. The first I merely watched my dad play; the second I finally plucked up the courage to step into [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 4, 2010
Lara Croft is embarking on yet another adventure in the recently announced ‘Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light’. Naturally this raises the question as to why the Tomb Raider name has been abandoned, presumably left in some musty cave infested with raptors and wolves living in co-existance. The series name has been somewhat of a misnomer over [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 29, 2010
Originally released on 13 January, Return to Ostagar, the third downloadable content offering for Dragon Age: Origins, has made a reappearance on the Xbox marketplace today alongside a title update. The DLC was originally pulled from the marketplace after a number of glitches formed from it, the major one being class specialisations re-locking after acquiring them. The new title update resolves these issues. Any specialisations which [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 31, 2009
A year of sequels with a few original titles. By no means are any of these sequels bad, Left 4 Dead 2 remains one of my favourite games, but for the most part there is little innovation. For me I enjoy games that strive to be different, to travel off the beaten track and along [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Games based on films and films based on games are often abominations. This bad reputation forms from a slew of half-baked games manufactured in an attempt to cash in on the relative success of a movie. For films, on the other hand, Uwe Boll takes the award for most damage dealt to the game film industry, the great director who [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 18, 2009
The war is finally over and the victor with an impressive 6,406,065 kills is the Soldier. Just beating the Demoman by about 30,000 kills the solider has proved his worth as the best combantant and receives the Gunboats for all his hard work. Proving that stairs are practically useless, the Gunboats are secondary slot boots that reduce rocket [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 16, 2009
It’s getting closer and closer until update release day and to commerate it Valve have announced a free weekend of Team Fortress 2 starting Thursday night when the update goes live. Meanwhile the gap between demomen and soldiers is getting slimmer with about 100,000 kills between them and a shiny new weapon of mass destruction. Regardless of [...]
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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