The island has vast tracts of forest, corners of desert, tiny islands, and a huge volcano. There are floating rocks, mushroom cities, buildings made of beetle carapaces. A cross-island journey [...]

I’m not sure about you but my gaming backlog is a mile long and shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon. More than that, and as I continue to [...]

Why do we need a villain? What is their purpose? Do we so desperately crave the need for a hero? A hero that will fight the damnable hordes of heinous [...]

An Assessment Of Piracy And DRM Through The Use Of Pornography. I know you’re here for the porn. But now that I have you I’m going to present one idea [...]

Complaints and berating aside, having (strike: tried to) played Diablo 3, I must concede it’s undoubtedly an awesome game that easily does more good than it does wrong. Having said [...]

This is what you get when you hunt for achievements. Masochism in its purist form. When I first got Halo Reach and saw that there was an achievement for completing [...]

I’d like to follow up my last Question of the Week about which game had the worst ending, with a solidly predictable one about which game had the best ending. [...]

There’s a reason why game developers let us in on as little information as possible, at a time. There’s also a reason why they don’t always look to their community [...]

In my last column I talked about the problems with gaming tutorials, and today I’m going to rant about difficulty settings, because I feel that they are another area that [...]

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 [...]

I take a moment to gather my thoughts. I put the gramophone on, and the voice of Bobby Darin fills the old saloon. My heart rate finally drops again. I [...]

I’ve always been a lover of the RPG genre. In my early years as a gamer the genre just grabbed me by the neck and took me for a ride. [...]

In the good old days, before glittery vampires and Modern Warfare there were no Trophies or Achievements and by that definition there was no Caveshen. Just kidding but seriously, he’s [...]

2upGamers the 5th Round took place on Friday the 4th of May. We were asked to do a presentation regarding eGamer, as we needed to introduce ourselves before introducing a [...]

This weekend I’ve been playing Tribes Ascend like I have no life at all. Which reminds me of that South Park ‘World Of Warcraft’ episode. Except with less swearing, relative [...]

I’m what you would call a modern gamer. I did, in fact, grow up playing NES games on one of those old shameless rip-off Golden China consoles and I somehow [...]

I’ve been feeling nostalgic of late. Maybe it’s the cold, wet weather of contemplation or perhaps it’s the long lonely, music filled bus rides of late or perhaps it’s my [...]

Hello there readers. Now to be honest with you, I really couldn’t think of anything to write on this week, and I’m quite vehemently opposed to churning out mindless ranting [...]

Ask any gamer, any real gamer. Okay old The Fast And The Furious references aside, any gamer who has played the Gears of War series will attest that the Insane [...]

Sometimes I have random thoughts and most of the time I keep those random thoughts to myself because they would freak the bejeezus out of most people (Yeah, I’m weird [...]

April was a great gaming month with many fantastic highlights, including games like Angry Birds Space, FEZ, Journey, Silent Hill: Downpour, Catherine and Twisted Metal. The only game we’re missing [...]

Do you need a little break from all the awesome AAA titles released this year so far? No, well are you tired of playing the same awesome free-to-play games like [...]

Complexity and difficulty. Two huge aspects of gaming that many have argued, no longer exist in gaming. Everything’s simplified now, easier, more accessible. A first-time gamer could pick up and [...]

After attending the Cape Town Prototype 2 launch event this past Thursday night, and getting to play the game, I stumbled once again upon one of the things that I [...]

Welcome to the fifth entry in our Hall of Fame feature, where we’ll be revisiting arguably what is one of video game history’s greatest ever adaptions of Star Wars, and [...]

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 [...]

It sounds like an old dial-up modem. When last did I even hear one? The beeping has ripped through that familiar little jazzy number that was playing on the radio, [...]

After the recent global rage-induced season of controversy surrounding the ending of Mass Effect 3, I started to think about game endings in general and decided to ask readers about [...]

With the previous DBNGamers event being quite a success myself, Timothy and Caveshen frequented the latest event looking forward to a great time. This time around the event wasn’t held [...]

Feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders, gasping for redemption in the form of precious air, with so much at stake. Should I continue with my current path [...]