Author Archive: Staff Writer Alexandru

My quest to find a Doctor Who tie-in product that doesn’t have “time” in the title continues after the announcement of a new property featuring the sonic screwdriver wielding alien. Of course, the only thing missing after an iPhone game was an MMO and they’re busily working away on a [...]

For such tiny, laid-back and musical dudes, the Patapon protagonists certainly have their fair share of enemies and evil rampaging monsters hunting them. Certainly enough to make for a new games, which in spite of not even knowing was in the making I’m completely looking forward to come April 17. [...]

Pretty straightforward really, you pop your finger over that tiny little pictogram your nephew or grandson or neighbor’s boy showed you about four hundred and fifty times but you still forgot which and presto, your free Boggle will be hurtling towards your preferred slab of Apple magic borne on unicorns’ [...]

Your neighbor’s cat pictures will keep. You and your Facebook account have bigger… erm, Locust to fry. Word is coming down from on high that the Gears of War 3 beta will be seeing an april-flavored release for owners of Epic’s other amazingly playable but otherwise completely juvenile power fantasy, [...]

You’ve seen what they can do with psychic detectives, heavy metal album covers, Halloween costumes and Matryoshka dolls, but now they hold some of your childhood’s most treasured memories in their hands. Double Fine, headed by Tim Schafer, he of Monkey Island and Psychonauts fame, have taken up an endeavor [...]

I seem to dimly recall something about some sort of yellow passenger conveyance and mental illness, but the specifics of Crazy Taxi elude me. Luckily, Sega have seen fit to edify me and people in my position by offering Crazy Taxi a prominent spot in its Dreamcast Collection launch trailer. [...]

Remember back in the day when a trailer was supposed to show off the game it was advertising? You’d get to see some people, maybe even a few buildings. Somebody was even doing something remotely interesting in it if you were lucky. The new Battlefield 3 trailer has people, buildings [...]

I frequently lie abed racked with worry about what exactly it is that I’ll be doing on the 20th of September 2011. Microsoft and Epic have somehow gotten wind of this and decided to allay my fears with the announcement that Gears of War will be getting released that same [...]

Quite a few of you love yourselves some Final Fantasy in general. A considerable portion of that subset of gamers like their Final Fantasy to go. Not nearly enough to warrant a new PSP Final Fantasy Dissidia after the current one comes and goes though, according to Final Fantasy creator [...]

DC Universe is finally joining the ranks of big boy MMOs in ways that it hadn’t already done. Then again, it’s doing some unprecedented things itself, so a lot can probably be forgiven at this point. Especially since it’s finally getting an Auction House, the beating heart or at least [...]