Tag Archives: reviewers

Built my first HTPC (Home Theatre Personal Computer)

The idea of an HTPC is to have a PC that can fit in with your amplifier/receiver underneath your TV which will act as a DVD player but with more features.
Hardware wise it is identical to a normal PC with CPU, RAM, motherboard etc etc but generally put in to more stylish cases specially built [...]

Zero Punctuation: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

An honest review from Yahtzee on Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Nothing is held back…

Yahtzee is a British-born, currently Australian-based writer and gamer with a sweet hat and a chip on his shoulder. When he isn’t talking very fast into a headset mic he also designs freeware adventure games and writes the back page column for [...]

Are current FPS trends ruining PC gaming?

With a large amount of first person shooters reaching stores around the world for the Winter sales, I can’t help but think that the vast majority of the current fps games are generic and all feel roughly the same.  By genre they should be similar but they all seem to have that same soft of [...]

FIFA 08 – Dear O Dear

This is not a review as I haven’t played any of the other recent FIFA titles or played any Pro Evolution Soccer either.  This is more of my nightmare playing FIFA 08.
The list pretty much grows everytime I play it, and I guess I should stop playing it but I played for it so I [...]

Crysis Demo Review

Right, this is my first review so I will type it up how I like to read reviews. If you don’t care about all the minor details skip to the end for my conclusive opinion.

Portal

Portal is a new extremely innotive game that was released with the Orange Box from Valve. I must say it is a very good game to play. I first played most of it through myself then later watching 2 of my drunk friends try to manuever around the game with which they had [...]

Zero Punctuation: Super Paper Mario

Yahtzee is a British-born, currently Australian-based writer and gamer with a sweet hat and a chip on his shoulder.
Every Wednesday a new game review is put on to the Escapist Magazine website.
This week Yahtzee is reviewing Super Paper Mario for the Nintendo Wii.

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