Archive for the ‘Hype’ Category

April 3, 2009
16:00

Online with OnLive

by Azfar

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A gaming hobby is generally a steady one; there are hardly very many surprises that can make us truly genuflect with awe. Innovations come and go and we, as gamers, move on like the animals of the Serengeti, from one water hole to the next, unfazed and unperturbed. Every once in a while though, comes something that stirs up the horde. Like a group of hungry lionesses, they stalk from behind, sizing up our numbers, willing one or a few to break away.

OnLive wants to be those lionesses and it wants us to be the unwary gazelles and the odd zebra or two who decide that there’s nothing wrong with trotting over to relax under the shade of yonder tree. Okay, enough with the metaphors already. What is OnLive, you ask?

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March 24, 2009
21:05

From Meta To Beta

by Mike

Those of you taking a peek at Issue Two of our lovely tome might have glanced upon our slightly tongue-in-cheek ‘hype’ of the WikiRace game. For those not in the know, it all revolves around the idea of getting between two seemingly unrelated Wikipedia pages just by clicking on inter-site links. It’s strangely fun, but it’s not really a game as Another Castle knows them, more a set of rules.

Except now. Now it’s a game.

Another Castle resumes normal service next week. Hang on in there!


March 12, 2009
13:29

Community Games: The Prologue

by Tomo

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Ok. I recently embarked on a journey to delve into the Community Games on Xbox Live with the intention of buying and reviewing one game each week for this here website. If you don’t actually know what I’m referring to, then you’re probably not alone. Buried somewhere within the New Xbox Experience’s vast array of squares (Game Marketplace > Explore Game Content > Community Games, to be precise), you’ll find about 200 titles begging you to play them. You see, these are all indie games. We’re not talking World of Goo levels of indie-ness, oh no, plenty of these are proper bedroom coded, one man and his dog and a tin of uncooked baked beans type games. In a nutshell, it’s essentially Xbox Live Arcade, albeit without the stringent quality assurance policies. Plus it’s cheaper too with games starting from as little as 200 points.

So yes, my journey… Read on »


March 7, 2009
12:00

I Pressure Israel Extra Tiny

by Mike

A cunning plan, and no mistake.

In Issue One we did a Top Ten of great, life-changing moments in gaming. They were times when you sat back and knew – you knew – that this was going to stay with you for some time. Meeting Alyx for the first time in Half-Life 2. That first big jump in Mirror’s Edge. Most of you probably remember how to get the first magic flute in Super Mario Bros. 3. Well, I’m having one of those moments right now. I’m playing StoryTron. And it’s like nothing I’ve ever played before.

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March 6, 2009
16:00

All Kinds Of Wrong – Eversion

by Mike

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One of the reasons I find it hard to watch horror movies nowadays is because of those gosh-darned introductory pieces where everything is happy, the sun is shining, and all is well with the world. Partly because, hell, I’m here to be intimidated so let’s bring on the dismemberment, but also because secretly I’m more scared by those bits than by any other segment in the film. Even that bit from Eternal Sunshine where the faces go all gooey. Even that. So let me tell you now that not only should you play Eversion, but you should play it knowing full well that this is a horror game. And that’s a screenshot of it above.

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05:52

Will you be my wingman tonight?

by Azfar

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Because you would possibly need one after HAWX. Slapping the Tom Clancy brand on a game usually means a very decent outing full of improbably martial story-lines and meaty shooting action. HAWX is the latest in the long-running, multifarious franchise that looks to extol the virtues of what is fast becoming the poster-child for any game with a military bias: Private Military Companies (PMCs). In this increasingly bleak version of the future, even our boys in the sky are nothing but trash-talkin’, hip-hoppin’ mercs. Doesn’t sound like they’ll be enjoying too many beachball matches then.

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