Clifftop Games’s point-and-click adventure flirts with big ideas, but comes off as a rather direct and self-contained detective yarn… and that’s quite all right.

Imagine you’re in a fantasy universe that has already fallen to dark forces. The apocalypse has come, given a once vibrant land a proper spanking with its armies of chaos and everybody is downright miserable. You’d think that kicking off a game with a band of misfits who are all nursing some serious trauma wouldn’t be the best way to introduce audiences to a dark new fantasy universe, but you’d be wrong. Trials of Fire is that game, and it’s a refreshing twist on the usual formula of knocking around dungeons and possibly encountering dragons.

The 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West has been adapted to all manner of media over the years, but it’s a story that works particularly well in video games. There have been countless adaptions: from Capcom’s 1984 arcade game Son Son, to Ninja Theory’s Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (with many more between). The latest of the is …

Much like Superman had done back in 1978, 1989's Batman knew that it needed to cast a big name to give the project an air of legitimacy. Plenty of names may have been thrown into a casting hat, but from day one there was only one actor considered for the role: Jack Nicholson.

The announcement of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare means that Infinity Ward won’t just have to deal with the pressure of living up to the benchmark of previous games, but they’ll also have to deliver on the demanding expectations of fans new and old. One way that they plan on doing this is via their brand new game engine, which …

Michael Keaton may be seen as the definitive Batman even 30 years after his feature film debut in Tim Burton's gothic masterpiece, but his casting before the movie even began rolling still made for one heck of a controversial decision at the time.

While the game’s undoubtedly fun, especially in short bursts, there’s nothing about it that’s making me – or my family – want to play this more than we already have. Considering we spent weeks playing All Stars, I think it’s safe to say that things have gone backwards this time around.

Okay, so just to get this out the way right from the start, pirating games is a shitty thing to do. I used to laugh at those ads on old DVD’s that would equate stealing a movie to stealing a car, but as I’ve matured and become more ingrained in the culture of games and movies, pirating just sucks. People …