Will Freeman

The Trials series increasingly faces a common creative challenge. Just how should it innovate when it has established an acclaimed, adored template founded on…

There's a well-known tenet of making smartphone games. Quite simply, direct console ports seldom dazzle. They need re-appropriating, reimagining and rebuilding. A 'three Rs'…

It's never explicitly stated, but Luftrausers seemingly drapes the player with the uniforms of a truly dark force. There is little doubting it, in…

Acclaimed Welsh developer Jeff Minter clearly adores the 1981 Atari arcade release Tempest. Since he undertook reworking the tunnel shooter for the Jaguar in…

"Games are art!" Just over five years ago, that was the collective catchphrase of the video game industry. Developers, journalists and academics practically shouted…

Slowly but surely Xbox LIVE Arcade is doing something to bring perhaps the oldest gaming genre ever back to the masses. In recent years…

Since the arrival of Geometry Wars every console has strived to secure its own seminal top-down, arena-based shooter. So far the PlayStation 3 has…

It is a testament to the rapid development of video game hardware that a title that was revolutionary to behold when it arrived on…

If by any chance you've stumbled upon this review without any knowledge of the fully-fledged Warhawk game to which Omega Dawn is an add-on,…

Presented with Pain without any expectations, it's easy to expect a futurist violent racer with a heavy metal soundtrack, or perhaps a horrific adventure…