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Press Trip: Ubisoft Montreal

Lauren — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:19:54 +0000

Woah! I have not updated for a long while. I do apologise, if you have been keeping up with my via twitter then you would know that I’ve had a crazy few weeks! First things first, Uni is going well. I’ve finally switched from Marketing to Journalism and all is right with the world. I attended my [...]

Preview – Assassin’s Creed II

Lauren — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:20:13 +0000

A few days ago I was sat in Ubisoft’s Montreal studio checking out Assassin’s Creed 2, the sequel to biggest and fastest selling new IP to date. After falling in love with the original Assassin’s Creed, even with its few repetitive flaws, I was pretty hyped to see how they would sculpt the next. Sitting [...]

Review – King of Fighters XII

Lauren — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:03:15 +0000

We have been pretty spoiled for choice recently with a good flow of fighter titles trickling out into our hands. Street Fighter 4 set up the year and any title after it has sadly had to deal with the harsh comparisons and ever raising expectations of a current gen fighter. So apart from bringing back [...]

Review – Axel & Pixel

Lauren — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:05:24 +0000

Point-and-click adventure games have been enjoying some reasonable popularity on the Xbox Live Arcade service as of late with classic titles such as Sam & Max and The Secret of Monkey Island. I’ve always enjoyed this genre but have never really appreciated them fully until recently, which was why I was quite excited when 2K [...]

Games make me feel happy~

Lauren — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:12:27 +0000

The last few weeks have been a good laugh. Settling into my first few lessons of my course and basically learning my way around the Uni. The best thing to happen is the news that I could combine journalism with games studies, so I’ve changed my marketing to journalism. With that all sorted plus my [...]

Hello London!

Lauren — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:42:54 +0000

It’s been an odd week and a half. I’ve moved to the big city. Oh hai London! Apart from falling with some weird illness which has rendered me voiceless for the last few days, things are going well. I have good flat mates, a bed to sleep on and meals in my tummy. What more [...]

Review – Batman: Arkham Asylum

Lauren — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:01:38 +0000

We can all admit Batman’s previous appearances in the gaming world were never all that impressive. So it was weird to be quite excited about his latest gritty outing in Arkham Asylum. Rather than produce a game version of the Dark Knight’s latest movie, Rocksteady had created a third-person action game that was not only [...]

Life Checklist

Lauren — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:34:13 +0000

Last few weeks of my life has been compiled into a series of checklists for my Uni prep, gaming and having a life! So busy which sucks as I have been meaning to blog here a few times. I’ve had a couple of reviews to do which include my Shadow Complex review as well as Gel: Set [...]

Review – Shadow Complex

Lauren — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:32:32 +0000

There is something about buying arcade games lately that leaves me expecting nothing more than a simple, quick title. It’s usually an impulse buy, something to play while I wait for friends to come online or a quick distraction from a busy day. Which is why I was honestly shocked around half way in Shadow [...]

Preview – Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising

Lauren — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:13:56 +0000

Last Friday I headed into London after Codemasters invited Console Monster to check out two of their biggest titles that are due out at the end of the year. Personally I was quite excited, as Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising was one of the titles being showcased and it’s been on my game radar for a [...]