As the cost to develop a game has dropped significantly over the years, the market has been flooded with new titles from all sorts of developers. Between indie, A-level and [...]

Welcome to my playthrough of Kraven Manor, an in-development indie horror game from shadowmaster013. This is an amazing game, built using the Unreal Development Kit, that really differentiates itself from [...]

Recorded: 07 May 2013 Another week, another episode. And with episode thirty, we are well and truly into this adventure. The eGamer crew are out in full force tonight, and [...]

Yesterday Ubisoft announced that famed Assassin’s Creed developer and creator, Patrice Desilets, had left the studio after conflicting visions when it came to the franchise’s future. Later it was revealed [...]

So we all know Wolfenstein is (hopefully) a grand return for the classic shooter franchise after the 2009 reboot failed to capture the hearts and minds of gamers (there’s a [...]

I’ve made no secret of the fact that I really dislike Dead Space 3, just as much as I dislike the way it clearly focused more on how to make [...]

If you type “define catch 22″ into Google, you will get the following as the result: “A catch-22 is a paradoxical situation in which an individual cannot or is incapable [...]

Yesterday Bethesda officially announced Wolfenstein: The New Order, and supplied a trailer. The game will be a “re-imagining” of the series, and will be released in the fourth quarter of [...]

inFamous: Second Son may be the third game in Sucker Punch’s highly successful franchise but it’s starting from zero and going with a new protagonist, new setting, new powers, new [...]

Of late, there’s been much talk about Microsoft’s new Xbox and the possibility of it being always-on but it’s been nothing more than wild rumours and speculation and in fact [...]

GRID 2, the follow on from 2008′s Race Driver: Grid, is scheduled to release on the 31st of May. Developed by Codemasters Racing, the game is an arcade racer which [...]

EA has announced that it’s preparing for a “great reveal at E3″ this year in June, as we edge closer to the beginning of the next generation consoles. During a [...]

I’m usually laid back with my articles but for this one I’m going to be serious because it’s a subject I feel strongly about, and that’s the negative portrayal of [...]

2upGamers, the Cape Town gaming event, will take place this Friday–the 10th of May–at Trinity. Scheduled to start at 19H30, the event will cost entrants R60, if male, and R50, [...]

Welcome to my playthrough of Fez, an indie platformer from Polytron Corporation. The game was initially released in April 2012 for Xbox Live Arcade, where it was a smash hit [...]

Despite the rather exciting (or dreadful) news of EA acquiring exclusive rights to publish future Star Wars titles yesterday, the publisher has announced it’s titles for this fiscal year, and [...]

Patrice Désilets is somewhat of a gaming martyr. He was one of the minds behind the Assassin’s Creed franchise when it was still good, working on the original title and [...]

Bethesda has announced the latest Wolfenstein game. It is called Wolfenstein: The New Order and it is scheduled to launch in the last quarter of this year, on Xbox 360, [...]

A few weeks ago a rumour dropped about the next-generation Xbox which claimed that it will be always-online, among other things. Discussion over whether the world is ready for always-online [...]

If you’re not someone who minds spoilers or in-depth looks at your anticipated titles, then here’s an almost five minute long developer diary on The Last Of Us, Naughty Dog’s [...]

Up till now rumours have persisted that Microsoft’s will have an always-on internet connection similar to some games linked to a DRM-type system. Long story short, this puts our ability [...]

GTA V is looking like a mighty fine game but one thing that it’s certainly missing is a PC version. How can a game this big with the potential for [...]

Gaming has become such a big part of so many people’s lives that some might even consider it a religion in some way. We worship our legends and we pray [...]

As gamers, and people with common sense, we all know that video games don’t cause violence. Sure, any violent media can influence aggressive behaviour and lead to violence, given that it’s already there [...]

I know that some of you may be immediately thinking that the best time of the year is the fourth quarter, where the biggest and most exciting games come out. [...]

In a world filled to its bursting seams with dark situations and uncomfortable scenarios, you are bound to reach the pinnacle of being just over ALL of it. Every floating [...]

That should come as quite an obvious statement, shouldn’t it. After all, you can push a billion pixels at a time but if none of them have any real purpose [...]

Welcome to my playthrough of the new and full release of Surgeon Simulator 2013! This game is made by bossastudios and in it you need to perform three surgeries, namely [...]

It’s mid-life crisis time for our podcast and you lucky gamers get to experience it happening in real-time when the eGamer crew kick back later tonight to record episode thirty. [...]

So, among other announcements made by EA yesterday, The Sims 4 managed to worm it’s way into the party and make itself known to the world. Yes, it’s another Sims [...]

Dead Island: Riptide is Techland’s sequel to their 2011 title Dead Island, which was actually a pretty decent but technically faulted game. In fact many would have called the original [...]

There are only so many military shooters you can stomach before something like Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon happens. In this rather lengthy and extremely enjoyable DLC, Ubisoft has accomplished [...]

My recently mended PS3 took strain, the five year old but still quite functional Sixaxis controller in my hands creaked with each furious barrage of button mashing, the plastic casing [...]

The Behemoth is a game company that many gamers love. At first they brought us Alien Hominid, a side-scrolling shooting game that was immensely hard, but was loved by many. Then [...]

The Army of Two franchise’s strength lies in its name. It’s a game designed for two players and synchronized teamwork. Previous iterations had you fill the shoes of either Rios or Salem. [...]

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 – [...]

God of War: Ascension is the seventh entry in the franchise, and a prequel to the entire series. I’ll be honest here. I’m a huge fan of God of War, and [...]

BioShock Infinite is a unique game. Not for the reasons you may think and presume. But for the simplicity in which it takes the medium of the videogame far beyond [...]

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, from developer Terminal Reality and publisher Activision, is a first person survival game set as a prequel to AMC’s massively popular and fantastic TV series, The [...]

We enter yet another crazy Naruto game with cel-shaded graphics at work to recreate the feeling of a game that appears to be hand drawn, with over the top characters, [...]

One of my favourite remarks regarding the Gears of War series is that playing the games is like riding a bike, in that you can not play the games for [...]

Over the years, Dead Space has ignited more than just a few conversations across the gaming landscape. Whether it is positive or negative, there was no denying of the fact [...]

Lara Croft and her dual pistols (not a sexual reference) have been a gaming icon since her debut close to two decades ago. More of her modern outings have been [...]

Cutting stuff is fun. Cutting stuff into many tiny pieces is even more fun. But can you really base a game around that idea alone? Metal Gear Rising certainly tries [...]

I don’t hide the fact that the original Crysis is one of my favourite games. I’ve practically gone back to play it on an annual basis, and even today I [...]

With Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch, Level-5 have gone in the complete opposite direction to the current trend of JRPGs. Thankfully so, because with Ni No Kuni [...]

Deadpool isn’t the type of hero you’d think could star in his own video game. In fact, Deadpool isn’t exactly the hero you’d expect to star anywhere. Why? Well Deadpool [...]

GRID 2, the follow on from 2008′s Race Driver: Grid, is scheduled to release on the 31st of May. Developed by Codemasters Racing, the game is an arcade racer which [...]

When someone mentions that their dog had been digging five separate holes in their garden after having deliberately tried to find a lost treasure that will be destined to ruin [...]

Fuse is game about 4 unique characters that have their own unique powers that they can do unique things with. The word unique has been thrown around quite a bit, [...]

Remember Me is the first big release from Dontnod Entertainment and is an Action Adventure title with elements of stealth and platforming. The game boasts a unique fighting and combat [...]

As I sit here at my PC I look out the window and see a grey sky, rain scattering across the glass and wind bending the trees. To me this [...]

There are three reasons why this preview is completely superfluous given our coverage of Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen so far, and will therefore go completely unread. The first reason is [...]

In 2011 NetherRealms showed us that there was still something worthwhile in the Mortal Kombat series after a long spell of hit-and-miss titles. It took the franchise back to its roots and [...]

The Walking Dead for me is one of the best shows currently on television right now alongside Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones. Its meticulously and brilliantly crafted narrative, strong [...]

Considering I got the chance to play through a rather significant amount of BioShock Infinite, you should be warned that there are potential spoilers below, especially if you want to [...]

Judgment. Or as we say in the proper parts of the world, Judgement. It’s quite ironic that since its announcement, I have been judging the upcoming Gears of War prequel. [...]

Boom! Headshot. I am the the ultimate predator. That is the fantasy of sniping, at least to me. I get the Agent 47 and the Sam Fischer stuff as well. [...]

BioShock ascends from the murky depths of the dark-blue ocean to a complete opposite end of the spectrum. Ladies and gentlemen, let’s all have a big Vigor-infused round of applause [...]

If you had to ask me a year ago whether I’d be interested in playing a Tomb Raider game I’d have probably said no. The series was just so dead [...]

Set twenty-four years after the events of Crysis 2, Prophet returns on a revenge mission to New York City and finds it encased in a huge Nanodome, engineered by the [...]

While January was somewhat of a drag in terms of new releases, February is shaping up to once again make us question what is more important; food or games? One [...]

Welcome to another edition of This Week In Indie, there’s not much in the way of news this week largely due to a shortage of actual newsworthy topics. However, this [...]

I spent a few hours earlier this week, between reading academic articles and Moby Dick, playing a browser-based game with a concept that caught my eye. As I often do [...]

Recorded: 14 May 2013 Now a weekly occurrence! Welcome to episode thirty one of the eGamer Podcast, certifiably the only podcast in the known universe which has Dean in it. [...]

Games have tough lifetimes if you really think about it. First, they have to be meticulously crafted by people using bits of code and some colours. Then they have to be printed [...]

Of gamers in the world, there are many different types. Some play games casually; some play games more than anything else that they do, including sleep; some call themselves hardcore [...]

> You are in a large room. Drawers line three of the four walls, extending up the ceiling. The door on the last wall is covered with a dark brown [...]

Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky. I don’t remember the last time I walked into a gaming retailer, looked at a pretty box, and thought, [...]

In between all the debates regarding politics, economics and pretty much all the things I’m not quite fond of, I’ve wondered about games and their difficulty settings. I do like [...]

There are few things in the gaming industry that anger me more than bad publisher practices, especially when they hurt us as consumers and damage the industry. I suppose what [...]

I’ve never been one for nostalgia because I didn’t grow up with the games that are now considered nostalgic. If the majority of gamers think nostalgia they think Mario, Zelda, [...]

Not many people have played Batman: Arkham City as much as I have. Now that’s not some declaration of my totally actual gamer superiority or anything, but rather, I need [...]

The amounts of YouTube videos out there are staggering. I’m sure that’s like saying that grass is green and books are filled with words. (Although, come to think of it, [...]

Or: How Suspension Of Disbelief Is So Nineties. Picture if you will, you’ve just arrived at a predetermined location with your ally in tow. Opting to look around rather than [...]

Lipstick lesbians are the pretty ones, where the other ones are called–well I’ll try not be too offensive in the labelling game. I’m going to coin a phrase for this [...]

Happy Mother’s Day to all the relevant people, actually you accept the well-wishing if you really want regardless of who you are. This week saw our podcasts go weekly as [...]

Comments, more than last week so at least that’s an improvement. I feel like our comments are starting to develop character arcs, we could weave our own little complex narrative. [...]