You have to hand it to Rockstar. Only they could, after releasing a slew of major hits that financially would be considered a sure thing, develop a game based on a 1979 cult hit film. They really do put their neck out there, and thankfully, for this game, it really paid off. Developed by Rockstar Toronto and released in on the Xbox and PS2...

It’s time for TGL’s first interview of 2013. Bruce Harwood, best known to Sci-Fi fans as John Fitzgerald Byers in the X-Files and The Lone Gunmen, he is an accomplished actor with other such projects as MacGuyver, The Outer Limits, and Kingdom Hospital under his belt. Bruce also appearred in two X-Files videogames as Byers,...

Hey everyone, Retroplayer here once again. The stealth genre is something that is quite hard to get right. While most games come at it with the wrong approach, there are a few that nail it and deliver a pure, undiluted stealth experience. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell is very much one of those games. Splinter Cell, developed by Ubisoft...

Hey everyone, Retroplayer here. Games based upon The Simpsons have never been good. My first Simpsons game was Barts Vs The Space Mutants. That was one horrific game, and pretty much kicked off a long, long list of Simpsons related videogame failures. So you’ll understand if I approached The Simpsons: Hit and Run with some slight...

The wonderful Cave Story could well be coming to a bevy of additional hardware formats, if an updated ESRB rating is anything to go by. The listing for Cave Story now shows the game rated for PS3, 360, Vita, PS2 and PSP alongside existing ratings of 3DS, Wii and DSi. ESRB ratings tend to be water-tight, so the appearance of Cave Story...

Sony have just turned up the heat on their PS2 PSN classics range by announcing that the original Killzone will be available on the Playstation Network from January 24th.

Hi all, Retroplayer here. A few months ago I decided to try and put together an article about the 2005 cancelled title, Stargate SG-1: The Alliance. What was initially planned as a huge developer roundtable interview- much like what I did with Shiny Entertainment and Origin Systems- turned into something quite different. I did my best to try and contact as many of the former developers from Perception Studios as I possibly could. I got in direct contact with a few of them but not many wanted to talk about the development of Stargate. Perhaps they didn’t want to focus on the past? Maybe the untimely death of Perception Studios was something they’d rather forget? Who knows. It was at that point I thought I’d chance my arm and ask for a working build of the game. If I couldn’t interview all the developers why not cover the game myself, right?

When I first saw Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time I hated it. I hated how it didn’t stick too closely to the games, how Jake Gyllenhaal was chosen to play the Prince, how Ben Kingsley pouted his lips and how it all came together as a typical summer blockbuster. I expected more from The Sands of Time. However, things change and since my last viewing of The Sands of Time my opinion of it has gone up a great deal. I think it’s one of the best videogame films to date, actually.

The ESRB have listed what appears to be the return of Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare. The relisting of the title places it right on the

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 is a Star Wars geeks fantasy. In fact, it’s my fantasy- a videogame where you can plays as Wookies, droids, storm troopers, bounty hunters, Jedi and Sith not to mention being able to control X-wings, Y-wings, AT-AT walkers and speeders. Star Wars: Battlefront 2 has it all but does this mixed bag gel together?

The Lord of the Rings: The Thid Age is one of those games that left me expecting way too much. I think I expected Final Fantasy: Middle Earth but ended up getting a rather linear tie-in with the films. However, this is all that bad, really. Lord of the Rings: The Third Age both disappoints and captivates.

Before Rocksteady Studios brought us Batman: Arkam Asylum they delivered Urban Chaos: Riot Response to the PS2. But it came and went with this reviewer not even knowing it existed. Maybe it didn’t get exactly the best push behind it but this, for me at least, is a classic example of a gaming gem. It’s fun, brutal, exhilarating and packs quite a gritty punch.

“Please stop me”, an enemies mask reads as he stalks your every move. You wait in the shadows as your characters heart beats from the speakers. A voice in your ear urges you to kill, urges you to decapitate the enemy’s head from his body. You wait and strike. You take him down in the most brutal way possible and you enjoy it. Is Manhunt just a meaningless vessel for needless violence or something more?

You know, you may be wondering what my situation is here. Do I even play current generation games? Is my name really Retroplayer? Where do I live? I’m sure there are many questions buzzing around you little heads. I currently live in the attic of the TGL building. Yes, I know, it’s quite sad really. Joseph and Shane lock me up here with some food, internet access and, most importantly to this article, old games and systems. I have every retro piece of software and hardware you could every want. I have a Dreamcast currently up against a hole in the wall to keep the rats out and a Snes moonlighting as a makeshift toilet seat. I have it all, man. I have fish heads in the morning and leftovers from a takeaway in the evening. So, whenever Joseph and Shane are finished with a game they use a stick to open the hatch in the attic and hurl the game up into my sleazy domain. Sure, I get some great games and I’m sure you read about them here on these articles from time to time but sometimes they give me games that, well, aren’t exactly the greatest example of human creativity. I have two games here in front of me that are truly horrendous. They’re games that shouldn’t have been made or even conceived. The developers should have been dragged into a cornfield like Joe Pesci in Casino and well, you know what happened next to him. Ah, Joe Pesci, we hardly knew ye.

During the night I cam across an article dated way back in 2007. Jack Tretton (SCEA) was interviewed by Gamepro and he went on to describe the [then] current