Author Archives: Brendan Allitt

Review: Monday Night Combat

Team based, frantic and fast first person shooters dominate the gaming market at the moment, on the other hand tower defence games are becoming more and more popular casual time sinks. However combining the two seems like an idea birthed from executives w

Review: Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect 2 is a sequel. While this may seem like a statement of the obvious it is vital to understanding what makes this game great. Bioware isn’t just cashing in on a successful intellectual pro

Review: Borderlands

Guns glorious guns, Gearbox’s Borderlands throws us into the dusty Mad Max-esque world of Pandora with only a few million guns with which to defend ourselves from the bandit hordes and a lot of dog monster things.

Degrees nerfed?

Hundreds of students getting useless degrees? Brendan Allitt considers the alternatives and the solutions.

Review: Champions online

Wouldn’t it be nice to be faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and maybe sleep with Wonder Woman?

Review: Dawn of War 2

‘Space Marines don’t chop wood’, according to Relic, so they’ve thrown out the conventions of the RTS genre in the creation of the much-anticipated Dawn of War II.