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Patch Notes v 0.8: Born Free

11-05-2012 Patch Notes Tim Ashdown

Hello everyone and welcome one again to Patch Notes. Tim Ashdown here back from Cuba and ready to take on the world of DLC and patches once again. I've never been...

CG Movies - Dark Shadows

11-05-2012 Movies and TV Phil Brown

Untitled Document For the last decade or so Tim Burton has seemed to give up on developing his own stories and instead focuses on gobbling up a pop culture relic that...

The Gripe Vine: We Need Better Producti…

08-05-2012 The Gripe Vine Wayne Santos

There’s a problem with the current model of game production but it’s going to require massive changes that are likely to leave a trail of devastation in their wake. Gamers...

First-Person Perspective: Make Call of D…

03-05-2012 First-Person Perspective Reid McCarter

One of the first videogames that I can remember having a real, profound effect on me was the debut Call of Duty. At the time of its release, the approach...

The Avengers Interview II: Cobie Smulder…

03-05-2012 Interviews Phil Brown

Since 2008, the good folks at Marvel Studios have been kind enough to introduce mass audiences to a fresh member of their extended comic book universe every summer. This year,...

CG Movies - The Avengers

02-05-2012 Movies and TV Phil Brown

Since the first screening occurred, word hit the Internet that Marvel Studio’s epic The Avengers is one hell of a superhero romp and I am absolutely thrilled to be able...

The Avengers Interview: Mark Ruffalo

02-05-2012 Interviews Phil Brown

This weekend Marvel Studio’s five-movie master plan finally comes to fruition with the multi-million dollar superhero mash-up The Avengers. Considering that the studio took a big risk in launching their...

What’s so Ultimate about Ultimate Spider…

01-05-2012 Editorials Adam Chapman

Marvel’s newest foray into cartoon animation is Ultimate Spider-Man, which started airing April 1st. But this show is no April Fool, as it brings a very different vision of Spider-Man...

The Dark Side of Comic Book Movies

01-05-2012 Editorials Adam Chapman

For just over a decade Marvel Comics has managed to successfully bring a variety of their properties to the big-screen, such as Spider-Man, the X-Men, and now the Avengers, opening...

What Happens To HD Collections Next Gene…

01-05-2012 The Gripe Vine Wayne Santos

As hardcore fans of Japanese action games go through the paces with the Devil May Cry HD Collection, I can’t help but look to the future with a little trepidation....

First-Person Perspective: A Novel Idea

27-04-2012 First-Person Perspective Reid McCarter

First-Person Perspective: A Novel IdeaBy Reid McCarterIt’s pretty tough to try to think up too many videogames successfully adapted from books. Despite the thousands and thousands of fantastic novels, short...

Guacamelee! – Luchadores Action in Two D…

25-04-2012 Editorials Adam Taylor

Mexican wrestling meets Metroid-vania in a stylistic 2D world. That would be the most accurate, albeit bizarre, description of Guacamelee!, the new game coming from Drinkbox Studios.Drinkbox Studios is a...

The Avengers and the danger of the cross…

25-04-2012 Comic Relief Adam Carter

Every Marvel fanboy's silver screen wet dream is but a couple of weeks away.On May 4, years of hinting and strategically planted ideas in a slew of comic book movies...

Patch Notes V0.7: Patch on the Run

26-04-2012 Patch Notes Adam Taylor

Hello all, this is Adam Taylor filling in for Tim Ashdown this week. Here to deliver the latest Patch Notes update. This time we’re taking a look at portable patches...

Video Vita Calls with Skype

25-04-2012 Editorials Adam Taylor

Yet another feature to be added to the PS Vita’s repertoire.Skype announced that the Skype Video and Voice calling app will now be available to Vita users as a free...

CG Movies - Safe

24-04-2012 Movies and TV Phil Brown

It’s been 6-8 months, so it’s time for Jason Statham to make a growling return to big screen ass-kickery. The last true action star and a hero for bald men...

The Gripe Vine: Did The West Change Too…

24-04-2012 The Gripe Vine Wayne Santos

About a month ago, the indie game developer Phil Fish—creator of Fez—took a question from a Japanese game developer after the screening of Indie Game: The Movie. During the Q&A,...

WazHack – Roguelike 101

23-04-2012 Editorials Adam Taylor

Roguelikes are definitely a niche genre. There’s those who grew up on them and have been playing them for years, and those who have never heard of the term. But...

You Can’t Please Everybody

20-04-2012 First-Person Perspective Reid McCarter

They say that you can’t please all of the people all of the time, and they’re right. Everyone has her or his own taste, finding some things really great and...

CG Movies - Comic-Con Ep. IV: A Fan’s Ho…

20-04-2012 Movies and TV Phil Brown

Stunt-documentary specialist Morgan Spurlock has a knack for taking on subjects just as they burst into the zeitgeist, from fast food trauma (Supersize Me) to product placement excess (The Greatest...

The Nintendo Nerd: So What The Hell Is S…

18-04-2012 The Nintendo Nerd Phil Brown

Last week the interwebs went a little bit nutty over the news that Nintendo registered the domain for Super Mario 4. Generally speaking, domain registration falls slightly below school lunch...

Shadowrun Returns, Hopefully Here to Sta…

18-04-2012 Interviews Adam Taylor

Shadowrun. For those that know it, nothing else needs be said. For those who aren’t familiar with the name, it is a traditional pencil and paper role-playing system set in...

The Wasteland Continues to Expand

17-04-2012 Interviews Adam Taylor

Brian Fargo’s Wasteland 2 project on Kickstarter continues to hit record highs. It’s already past the $2 million mark and still growing. With 11 days to go before contributions come...

Dust 514 and Eve Online: Two Sides of a …

17-04-2012 Editorials Adam Taylor

Dust 514 is CCP’s latest addition to the EVE universe. It is a first person, team based shooter for the PlayStation 3 that is set in the same universe as...

The Gripe Vine - The Cheapening

17-04-2012 The Gripe Vine Wayne Santos

When you look at the budgets—and subsequent profits—that game publishers are now dealing with in the current market, one thing starts to become very clear; the traditional model is no...

Patch Notes v0.6: Go Go Gadget Jetpack!

16-04-2012 Patch Notes Tim Ashdown

Hello everyone and welcome once again to Patch Notes, CG Magazine bi-weekly column covering updates, patches, and DLC. This week I’ll be talking about on of my favorite iOS titles...

CG Movies - Cabin In The Woods

12-04-2012 Movies and TV Phil Brown

Cabin In The Woods is one of the best horror movies to come along in recent years. It’s an ingenious, self-conscious riff on tired formulas with enough gore n’ jumps...

CG Movies - Lockout

12-04-2012 Movies and TV Phil Brown

The end credits claim that Lockout was “based an original idea by Luc Besson.” Well, I know exactly what that French action fetishist’s idea was and it ain’t that original....

A Quick Look at Munchkin

11-04-2012 Editorials Adam Taylor

Munchkin isn't your typical card game. It's a wonderfully wacky spin the whole role-playing game world. Three or more players sit around and try to out battle, outwit and out...

The Gripe Vine - Have Game Will Travel

10-04-2012 The Gripe Vine Wayne Santos

I’m interested in the upcoming Square-Enix title Sleeping Dogs (formerly known as True Crime: Hong Kong) but it’s not necessarily for the reasons that most people might have. Sure, I...

First-Person Perspective: Drawing to a C…

09-04-2012 First-Person Perspective Reid McCarter

A good story has to weigh each of its elements equally: for all the power a strong opening or climax may have, their impact may be drastically reduced without an...

Your Map is Upside-down

05-04-2012 Editorials Adam Taylor

Remember a time, long, long ago, when people would justify gaming by explaining how it helped develop hand-eye coordination and map reading skills? Not that gaming really needs justification, but...

Knowing Where The Line Lays

04-04-2012 Editorials Adam Taylor

Gamers have rights. That’s something that many tend to forget. When you’re paying money for a game you’re paying for what the company has promised you. If you don’t get...

The Gripe Vine - MW4 Trump Harsh DRM?

03-04-2012 The Gripe Vine Wayne Santos

On one forum I frequent, I participated in a spirited discussion amongst the various gamers that regularly post there. Like you’d expect, most of the people were speculating over the...

Patch Notes v0.5: Get With the Modern Ti…

30-03-2012 Patch Notes Tim Ashdown

Hello friends and welcome once again to Patch Notes, now in our new slot on Fridays. What better way to spend a weekend that by checking out some of the...

First-Person Perspective: War and Peace…

30-03-2012 First-Person Perspective Reid McCarter

The last time I got into a fist fight was in junior high and I didn’t like it at all. As I grew up I tried to avoid violence as...

Crafting Ideas: An Interview with Craft…

30-03-2012 Interviews Scott Dixon

Taking at-home game creation to the next level is French game designer Elisée Maurer. With inspiration from games like Minecraft and other 'make-your-own' games, Maurer's latest project CraftStudio is looking to...

CG Movies - Wrath of the Titans

29-03-2012 Movies and TV Phil Brown

If you like seeing giant CGI monsters take on vaguely disinterested human actors, then you’ll be pleased to hear that 2010’s forgettable Clash Of The Titans rehash now has a...

The Nintendo Nerd: A Ridiculously Late e…

29-03-2012 The Nintendo Nerd Phil Brown

Hello dear readers. You’ve probably spent the last month desperately awaiting (aka barely noticing the absence of) a new Nintendo Nerd blog. Well, the good news is that I’m finally...

HighScore 3: An interview with Rusel Dem…

29-03-2012 Interviews Scott Dixon

In the most recent phase of Kickstarter's endevour of funding all the projects we want the most - long time industry writer Rusel Demaria has started his own to fund...

The Mass Effect Effect

28-03-2012 Columns Adam Taylor

Mass Effect 3 from Bioware is the finale of the ME series. As the end of a trilogy one would expect an epic ending which answers many questions, gives players...

Return to the Wasteland

28-03-2012 Columns Adam Taylor

Wasteland. Often called the godfather of post-apocalyptic role-playing games (RPG), the game was created by Brian Fargo and his team back in 1988. It was an epic “classic” style RPG,...

The Gripe Vine - Day One Purchases in a …

27-03-2012 The Gripe Vine Wayne Santos

Over the course of this console generation, I’ve been noticing an unfortunate trend with high profile titles. For me in particular, the biggest offender is The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim,...

First-Person Perspective: Journey

26-03-2012 First-Person Perspective Reid McCarter

Note: Please don’t read this week’s column if you haven’t played Journey and plan to do so in the future. A lot of the game’s impact comes from discovering how...

CG Movies: The Hunger Games

22-03-2012 Movies and TV Phil Brown

With Harry Potter a thing of the past and the Twilight series mercifully coming to a close, the time has come for Hollywood to gobble up a new YA novel...