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March 14, 2009 11:05 PM

Fight club
There’s a new version of the mother of all fighting games – and a Scot has got the dream job of promoting it, as Graeme Virtue finds out If there’s an ultimate champion of fighting games, it has to be...
Fight club
There’s a new version of the mother of all fighting games – and a Scot has got the dream job of promoting it, as Graeme Virtue finds out If there’s an ultimate champion of fighting games, it has to be...

February 14, 2009 8:19 PM

The lowdown on downloads
Online gaming isn’t new, but digital downloads are really catching on now – and offer a chance to revisit some old classics. By Graeme Virtue Today’s the big day. That big exclusive game is coming out and everyone wants a...

January 17, 2009 6:12 PM

Home is where the art is
Sony’s release of Home, its answer to Microsoft’s New XBox Experience, was almost a year late and even now the system is incomplete. Graeme Virtue takes a peek into this new virtual world and finds ... lots of potential Now...

November 1, 2008 9:20 PM

A world of your own
DO you want to play games, or do you want to make them? Judging by the massive promotional campaign behind LittleBigPlanet for the PlayStation 3, Sony is betting that there’s going to be a bright future for user-generated content in...

September 10, 2008 12:48 PM

THE BEST OF THE BATTLERS
AS Harry Hill knows, sometimes there’s only one way to settle things: fight! And with video games, it’s possible to duff up your friends without anyone actually getting hurt (unless you count wounded pride). But as consoles have become more...

April 19, 2008 7:35 PM

NICE SHOT!!! A conversational guide to online gaming

It’s big, it’s clever and it’s full of banter but as Graeme Virtue discovered, online gaming means more chance of seeing two words – GAME OVER

TRUE story. A friend of a friend was playing alien invasion shoot-em-up Resistance: Fall Of Man online for the first time on his PlayStation 3. The game has some pretty nifty weapons, including one where you fire a special bullet...

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DREAM LAND

Skulduggery Pleasant author Derek Landy tells David Christie why he loves horror, Hollywood and eBay

IMAGINE spending years slogging your guts out on your dad’s farm – with no idea about crops or any inclination to find out. Then, all of a sudden, a name pops into your head and before you know it you’ve...

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