Game Of The Year. The title has weight. It is the first day of a new year and with the passing of 2010 it is time to anoint a single, solitary champion of the year in gaming. It takes a lot to stand out amongst what have been a banner year for good games. There are [...]
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Must Have Games for Your New iPod/iPad/iPhone
So you’ve opened that new present you’ve been waiting for all year – a brand new shiny (or perhaps, hand-me-down) iPod touch, iPhone or iPad. No doubt your loved ones scrimped and saved and pooled their money for this revolutionary and/or magical device. Now what to put on it? If you’ve got an iPad, Virgin [...]
15 Stalkers There to Make Your Life Hell, Part 2
Day two of stalking and here’s the crack team of monsters that come from a nightmarish world. So lets cut to the chase and start with … 7) Resident Evil: Outbreak – Leech Man The Resident Evil series has a number of different stalker creatures though for the most part they all seem to be Tyrant clones. Leech [...]
15 Stalkers There to Make Your Life Hell, Part 1
A good game has to have a challenge, so what happens when that challenge is nigh unstoppable, ever-pursuing and would like nothing more than to use your head as a crude pillow/garden ornament. Sometimes it might be given an axe, sometimes an axe wouldn’t hurt it at all. More often than not these stalkers will be [...]
Let the Halo Franchise Grow
This is going to be simple – We want more Halo. Some people, PC FPS players especially, despise the Halo franchise. Say what you will about the games themselves, no one can doubt that the games have been a phenomenal success for Bungie and Microsoft and have been instrumental in launching the Xbox 360 to [...]
E3 2010: Writers Roundtable
E3 2010 has been a memorable one. Lots of wonderful announcements about how gamers will be spending their hard earned money for the next year or so. With things finishing up, we decided to poll the writers and get some of their overall thoughts. Basically we asked 3 simple questions. Read on for each set [...]
Halo: Reach Beta Aftermath and Thoughts
Halo: Reach‘s beta has ended. The combat is finally over and the dust is beginning to settle. Spartans versus Elites, Spartans versus Spartans and Elites versus Elites. It’s all a massive explosion of carnage and combat. That said, the planet has yet to fall. This fall the game proper will be released but until then, [...]
BioWare: Final Fantasy XIII Not an RPG. We Agree.
BioWare Writing Director Daniel Erickson today said that Final Fantasy XIII isn’t an RPG. In an interview with Strategy Informer (which has all sorts of Old Republic goodies) Erickson pointed out the successful game’s lack of definition in reply to a question about the main staple of The Old Republic being its story and the [...]
Apple’s iPad: The Nukoda writers’ views
Last week of course saw the unveiling of Apple’s latest ‘must have’ device: the iPad. The device has caused a division amongst those who have heard about it, with some hugely excited for the device, and others not seeing a reason for its existence. At Nukoda, we couldn’t let such an important event pass without comment, and so included are some views of some of the writers for this website…
Sam’s Game of the Year Nomination
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 [...]
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