Heart of the Swarm is the first expansion to be released for Blizzard’s StarCraft II, unless you’re one of those people who considers Wings of Liberty itself an expansion – [...]

Even if you were sane enough to get a full night’s sleep instead of watching Sony’s super secret, what-could-they-possibly-be-announcing press conference last week (it aired at 1am local time), you’ll [...]

Apparently the issue of girls in the gaming world is becoming a pretty big thing nowadays. I suppose that makes sense, in the same way that when you belong to [...]

When we last left Jim Raynor, life seemed to be going pretty well for him. The alien horde was defeated, he’d just popped a game straight into the face of [...]

2012 was a pretty memorable year no matter whose pants you were wearing. I’m not entirely sure how the ownership of your currently-employed pants would change your experiential perspective, which [...]

Treyarch and I met at a special time in my life. By the time Call of Duty: World at War (Treyarch’s first release in the CoD series) came around, I [...]

As some of you are hopefully aware, this column marks the end of my month-long period of absence from the wondrous internet-oasis of critical gaming discussion that is eGamer. As [...]

Some would say I’m only writing on Borderlands 2 because I’m a shameless view-whore. That’s not true at all — my literary promiscuity brings me enormous shame. On a serious [...]

There’s been a lot of back and forth recently around the issue of achievements in games, centering around the question of whether or not they should really be considered achievements. [...]

Gaming may be a harsh mistress at times, but she always gives a little when she takes. That’s why when I first heard that Borderlands 2 was delayed I didn’t [...]

Reviewers the world over are getting very confused about how to do their jobs, so I’m going to spend the next thousand-odd words telling you why they’re buggering up and [...]

Resident Evil is facing more competition than it ever has in the past for the title of King of the Zombie Shooters, but Capcom is bringing out the big guns [...]

Sometimes I think being a gamer is a lot like cheating. Not just because we can get jetpacks in GTA or aim without aiming on a console (Oh snap! I [...]

If the rise of online retailers were World War 2, online stores would be the precision-engineered death-machine and powerhouse of efficiency we could not mistake for anyone other than Nazi [...]

I’ve always liked pancakes. So much so that whenever my mom whipped up a batch of batter, I would muster up every shred of charm I could find, don my [...]

Life’s tough for gamers these days, don’t you think? In the stead of that heavily sarcastic introduction, E3 2012 proved to us pretty definitively that our days of destitution and [...]

As our beloved Eskom has so vividly illustrated for us, putting power in the hands of idiots is a very dangerous thing. Unfortunately, the games industry has enough examples supporting [...]

Fun though discussing whether or not video games should be considered sports, I decided recently that discussing the converse of the issue — whether sport games should be considered video [...]

Welcome back to another exciting edition of Duncan’s Debates, where we aim to argue about anything and everything related to games and their industry. In the last installment we looked [...]

Foreword: Well, it seems I’ve managed to get myself into a bit of a pickle. In what I thought was an ingenious ruse to get myself kicked off The Team [...]

Name: Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Genre: Third Person, Cover-Based Shooter Players: 1-4 Multiplayer: 8 vs 8 Online, LAN or splitscreen Platforms: PC, PS3, Xbox 360 Developers: Red Storm Entertainment, Ubisoft [...]

Every now and then during one of my writing sessions I’ll finish off a paragraph, sentence or practically any train of thought which my mind was on, lean back in [...]

I know, I know — you don’t want to hear another word about Mass Effect 3, BioWare or anything even vaguely related to them for as long as you live. [...]

Given that you’re reading this column via the internet, I feel relatively safe in assuming you’ve heard a thing or two about either Joseph Kony, Kony 2012 or Invisible Children, [...]

Having managed to finally dig my way more or less out of the metaphorical snowdrift caused by the equally metaphorical blizzard of work currently laying siege to my entirely literal [...]

Name: Binary Domain Genre: Third-person, squad based shooter Players: 1 Multiplayer: Yes (versus mode and co-op confirmed) Platforms: PS3, Xbox 360 Developers: Ryu ga Gotoku Studio Publishers: SEGA Release Date: [...]

You know what I haven’t used in ages? Apart from the common sense to choose opening sentences that don’t contain innuendos regarding my sexual activity, that is. Ahem. Moving swiftly [...]

Foreword: To those expecting something specifically gaming-related here, I have to apologise, for you’ll find very little gaming here today. If, however, you come here looking to find something truly [...]

I’m sure you guys all remember the fateful November of 2011. Commonly hailed as ‘The Month of Gaming’ due to its high number of triple-A game releases, I have a [...]

Unless you haven’t been doing your reading lately, or you have a Perception stat roughly equal to that of the Fallout 3 character I made where I put all the [...]