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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Silly headline, isn’t it? Initially, you’d think so. Instead, let’s stay open-minded and run through what actually happened in April. April is a somewhat quiet month, especially after the carnage [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

My new column, NOW WITH WORDS! Immersion is an odd thing. Developers toss and overwork the word as if each use directly correlates to another sold copy of their game. [...]

So I’m sure most of you have heard of Instagram and its recent sale to Facebook. Now if you’ve actually used Instagram, you’d know that on the face of it [...]

I’ve recently gotten my hands on a PlayStation Vita, much to my happiness, and if you’ve seen our review of it then you’d know that we’re really excited about the [...]

Coming out of a manic March of Mass Effect 3 and not much else, I have to admit that when I haven’t been playing the ridiculously inexplicably addictive multiplayer, I’ve [...]

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 [...]

My girlfriend is slowly becoming a gamer. She can use a PlayStation control now. She has more than one favourite game. Her current favourite allows her to run around, picking [...]

The relative difficulty of typing something on the page of a blank screen with a blinking cursor as a guide may be a daunting task, as Timothy exemplified in his [...]

It’s one thing to just have fun with a game by shooting random zombies or doing shweet trix off a mountain with an indestructible snowboard, but it’s another thing to be [...]

A couple horrible weeks later and I still have nothing to write, nor the motivation to express any idea that did come to mind. But this column is fast approaching [...]

Back in 2007 I used to be all bright eyed and bushy tailed. I didn’t really play games in too much of a competitive fashion since, multiplayer was mostly done [...]

Our eGamer Awards may have already happened but now I feel it’s time to have another set of Awards, all to be handed out in this here column based purely on opinion and subjective thought. Why? The better question is why not?

March can be described very simply: March was an emotional roller-coaster for gamers. With a six day build up to Mass Effect 3 (United States release date 6 March), we [...]

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. [...]

“F#@k, I HATE dying!” The outburst next to me says my sister’s game of Titan Quest is not going as well as expected. “Dying is such a pain. I hate it!” She says the words without a drop of irony. I more than make up for it: “Yes, Lins. Most people do.”

Having to review crappy games is part and parcel of the whole video game journalism ‘shin-dig’. I find writing my columns a reprieve from the horrors of many misguided game [...]

A column is a column is a column. This is my first column and I need to sound smart. There you go, I just did. I have wandered my house’s [...]