Reviewing the Review: Eurogamer’s Alice: Madness Returns review

Ah Eurogamer. They really have made the ‘joke review passed off as a legitimate critique’ into an art form all their own. The last time i read a review of theirs so bad it made me want to review the review, it was their hilariously shit drubbing of not-at-all-crap-and-actually-pretty-fun shoot em up Wolfenstein. Now not content with [...]

In defence of Duke Nukem Forever

In my time of playing, and reading about videogames, i’ve seen my fair share of games get a complete and total reviews ass pounding. There are games that deserved to get a complete shoeing in the review stakes (yet oddly, didn’t, like when MGS4 finally cast off any last vestiges of interactivity and become the worlds [...]

Reviewing a review: Why Eurogamer’s Wolfenstein review can go suck one

Eurogamer, for those of you not aware, is a website where sufferers of low level downs syndrome are allowed practice their remedial english class via the medium of videogame reviews. Reviews range from ‘poor’, to ‘shit’, to ‘unfathomably shit’, and it’s largely down to the fact that most reviewers on the site are incapable of [...]