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  • Portal 2 – Science is a cake-walk

    Portal 2 – Science is a cake-walk

    4th May 2011 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Remember those bus ads for Portal 2? You can’t have missed them; Portal 2 posters covered everything that moved, and anything that didn’t, about three weeks ago.
    Now, the dust has settled and the game has been played. And completed. So, can this first-person puzzler meet the hype?
    Portal 2 had to be a brilliant sequel, probably the greatest sequel of all time, and, for the most part, it is. Well, if...

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  • How portals and a cake make sequels difficult

    How portals and a cake make sequels difficult

    20th April 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Remember Portal, eh? What a brilliant game that was. Do you remember when you first played it?
    Expecting little more than a glorified display of a funky new physics engine toy, we were given the perfect video game: a brilliant fuse of logic, story, mechanics and quirky end-game music.  Ah, yes. What a game.
    Or, maybe you’ve never heard of Portal. You wouldn’t be the first to scratch their head at this,...

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  • Eurogamer Expo 2010 – Disappointing

    Eurogamer Expo 2010 – Disappointing

    6th October 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    The videogame industry is one of the most lucrative entertainment industries on the planet. Every year it excels with new technology and innovation and has garnered millions of eager fans in the UK.
    So why was the 2010 Eurogamer Expo, Britain’s biggest videogame expo, such a massive disappointment?
    I’ll tell you why; most of the games were brutish shooters, all clones of each other in most respects. There was also a woeful...

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  • Left 4 Dead 2 for zombie virgins

    Left 4 Dead 2 for zombie virgins

    11th December 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this

    The trouble with really excellent video games is convincing people they're really good. I'll get this out the way first; Left 4 Dead 2 is an excellent video game. But I know how to work a first person shooter and I'm used to shooting video game zombies. My thumbs are honed to the X and Y axis with the fine tuning of my thousands of years of human evolution-fuelled muscle...

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Richard Preston

Richard Preston

A product of Scotland and a second-generation child of modern media, Richard's natural ability to form accurate and correct opinion has seen him work for a number of actual printed publications. He's tinkered with gadgets, condensed huge swathes of Cult TV and Sci-Fi into his head and has even stood on stage to tell jokes what he wrote himself. Now living in North London, he dedicates his life to guiding you through our planets maze of media hell.

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