Interview: Pandemic’s Tom French (The Saboteur)
Posted by Mark Cullinane in Featured, Gaming, Interviews, PC, PS3, Previews, Xbox 360 on 27. Sep, 2009 | 0 Comments
This December sees the release of The Saboteur, a long-in-development third person action title for Xbox 360 and PS3 from Pandemic Studios.
Having cut their teeth on well-received series like Full Spectrum Warrior, Star Wars Battlefront and Mercenaries, the developer’s latest game continues in their tradition of wham-bam, blockbuster action shooters- at least at first glance. [...]
100-Word Review: Bookworm Adventures Vol. 2 (PC)
Posted by Mark Cullinane in 100-Word Reviews, Featured, PC, Reviews on 23. Aug, 2009 | 0 Comments
Like all the best PopCap releases, this spell-a-thon sequel posesses the company’s inimitable addictive qualities.
Bookworm Adventures dispenses with the superfluity and bulk so prevalent nowadays, choosing instead to boil down smart game design to its fundamental elements. The faint air of cheapness surrounding the game can’t mask the rock-solid game mechanics, which challenge players to [...]
Competition: Comment and win a copy of Spore: Galactic Adventures
Posted by Mark Cullinane in Competitions on 01. Aug, 2009 | 3 Comments
Thanks to the inordinately kind people at Electronic Arts, we have a copy of the first Spore expansion pack, Galactic Adventures on PC to give away to one lucky reader. Note that the game requires a copy of Spore to function.
How to win?
All we ask is that you post a comment below- via the site’s [...]
Hands-on: Heavy Rain aims to redefine videogame storytelling
Posted by Mark Cullinane in Featured, Hands-on impressions, Interviews, PS3 on 31. Jul, 2009 | 5 Comments
The adventure game genre has seen something of a resurgence in recent years. Titles like Telltale’s downloadable, episodic forays into the worlds of Sam and Max, Wallace and Gromit, Strong Bad, and most recently Monkey Island have put one of gaming’s oldest genres back on the map. Nintendo’s stylus-friendly DS has played a big part [...]
100-Word Review: EA Active (Wii)
Posted by Mark Cullinane in 100-Word Reviews, Featured, Reviews, Wii on 28. Jul, 2009 | 0 Comments
Not just a Wii Fit clone, Active is emblematic of EA’s newly-enlightened approach to Wii development. This is a well-designed piece of software that trumps Nintendo’s chart-topper in nearly every respect. A healthy selection of exercises make excellent use of the included resistance band and leg strap (and, optionally, the balance board). It may be [...]
100-Word Review: GTA: Chinatown Wars (DS)
Posted by Mark Cullinane in 100-Word Reviews, DS, Featured, Reviews on 28. Jul, 2009 | 0 Comments
Yeah, It’s been out a while. But we’re giving it the 100-Word Review treatment all the same. Why? Because, as Billie famously proclaimed, we want to.
Whichever generic Rockstar subsidiary made this gave a surprise lesson
in packing scale, presentation, longevity and fun into a DS slot. It’s
GTA2’s looks housing a gloriously dumbed down GTA4; two thirds [...]
Join the No Added Sugar Team (Update)
Posted by Mark Cullinane in Site News on 28. Jul, 2009 | 0 Comments
I’d like to thanks everybody who applied to write for No Added Sugar and sent in samples of their work. I took great pleasure in reading every single one. As promised, I am now in the process of replying back individually to all of you.
Please don’t be disappointed if I don’t write back to you [...]
100-Word Review: ‘Splosion Man (XBLA)
Posted by Mark Cullinane in 100-Word Reviews, Featured, Reviews, Xbox 360 on 25. Jul, 2009 | 0 Comments
Twisted Pixel’s new XBLA game is pleasing to both man’s base and higher instincts: ‘Splosion Man’s ‘explode yourself’ premise taps into the innate urge of gamers everywhere to blow stuff up; while our more cerebral needs are catered for by smart level design and entertaining puzzles.
With the platforming grace of Mario married to the gravity-defying [...]
Comment: Art Imitating Art
Posted by Mark Cullinane in Featured, Opinion, Xbox 360 on 23. Jul, 2009 | 1 Comment
(I’d like to warmly welcome James Dilks to the No Added Sugar team. In this, his first piece for the site, he highlights the increasing trend of videogames taking inspiration from other parts of our cultural heritage- and how the medium is all the richer for it.)
Look, we’re all hypocrites. We sledge games for borrowing [...]
Interview: Harmonix (The Beatles Rock Band)
Posted by Mark Cullinane in Featured, Interviews, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 on 20. Jul, 2009 | 4 Comments
Following on from my hands-on impressions of a 90% complete version of Harmonix’s anticipated spin-off of their Rock Band series, below is the transcript of my interview with the irrepressible, handsome, and very talkative John Drake from Harmonix- as we talk Rock Band, plastic instrument overload, and the future for Harmonix.
Rock Band: The Beatles is [...]
