I managed to stop myself mid-motion as my palm hurtled towards my face at a speed of 88 mph. “Don’t be hasty,” I told myself, “Just because they changed quite a few things in Heroes of Might and Magic VI doesn’t mean that it’s bad”. And you know what, HoMM VI is actually pretty good. Read more »
Despite the meteoric rise to popularity the Game Of Thrones TV series has seen over the past year, its PC game counterpart, Genesis, hasn’t seen a great deal of hype. Although the game has been out for a good two weeks or so, I finally managed to set aside some time to give this game […] Read more »
The Witcher 2’s recent patch to version 2.0 offers up a whole host of fixes and new features sure to tantalize any fan of The White Wolf. For a quick preview of the patch and my first impressions of the game’s new arcade styled Arena mode, have a quick look at this post. All of […] Read more »
Proving that we can’t have too many free-to-play FPS games in Singapore and Malaysia, Asiasoft will be bringing Alliance of Valiant Arms to Singapore with a closed-beta test in November. I left my skepticism about F2P FPS games at the door when I attended the media preview for A.V.A last Friday and was pleasantly surprised […] Read more »
Fans and followers of the White Wolf may now rejoice for Patch 2.0 has finally rolled out, boasting a whole host of gameplay changes that are set to take The Witcher 2 to a whole new level. Of note, some of the key features that Patch 2.0 will bring include: Dark Mode – An new […] Read more »
The Diablo III closed beta has been underway now for about two weeks. If you’ve been follow my live stream on the NGNT Twitch.tv channel, you’ll know that I’ve put in about 6 hours of game time in two run-throughs the game across a Monk and a Barbarian, enough to get a good feel of […] Read more »
People within my inner circle probably know by now that I’m really more of a Warhammer Fantasy person. The universe of Warhammer 40K, as it is written, just doesn’t sit very well with me. Heck, science fiction in general doesn’t quite appeal to me to begin with, but that’s besides the point really. Though I’m […] Read more »
And so it was that after two games worth of monster slaying, orphan saving, thong wearing and being an all-round hero to the downtrodden, The Baconing greets us with an on-top-of-the-world Deathspank who’s gotten rather bored. Sadly, the latest instalment to the franchise does little to remedy that situation. Read more »
Duke Nukem has finally returned after 14 years of development hell. But how does it stand up as a modern day FPS? I’ve played about five hours of single player and a little bit of multiplayer, here are my initial impressions so far. Read more »
Jay Wilbur, co-founder of id Software, once famously said in a 1996 interview that “a great game with a bad story is still a great game.” Fifteen years later we have Bulletstorm, the ultimate epitome of Wilbur’s first-person shooter principles; a clear throwback to the Dooms, Quakes, and Unreals of the past. Read more »
