Best In-Game Xmas Events for 2014
As that Yuletide time of year comes creping back from the depths of Winter, we the gamers, often find ourselves adorned with digital gifts to get us in the festive spirit. Whether it is a special Xmas weapon, or a full game mode, we will often find developers making an…
Games with Gold Versus PlayStation Plus 2014
Although they were introduced many years apart, Xbox Live Gold and PlayStation Plus have become two of the most popular premium subscription services available. Aside from the fact you need to be a subscriber to take part in online multiplayer on PS4 and Xbox, the free games that become available…
Top 5 Local Co-op Games for the Holidays
In the times before online gaming and the madness that follows it, you used to have to split your screen and you sofa in order to play with friends or family. Thinking back on my previous Christmas's and New Year I remember all kinds of local multiplayer fun that I…
VGU Interviews: Enter the Gungeon
With its recent announcement at the Playstation Experience, we caught up and had a lengthy chat with Brent Sodman, programmer and one of the team at Dodge Roll Games, about their gunfight dungeon crawler, Enter the Gungeon. Sam Foxall - For those who don’t know, what is the basic outline…
BF4: A Guide To The ‘Phantom’ Phantom Bow
Battlefield 4 is well known for it's crazy and difficult easter Eggs, but this latest one takes the biscuit. Here is a guide on how to complete it. Hey, do you like jumping through ever shrinking hoops of fire? You do?! Then you'll love the Phantom Project. After the recent…
Street Fighter V Console Exclusivity: Good for Sony, Safe for Capcom, Bad for Gamers
Another great day to be a gamer…unless you bought an Xbox One. Sony and Capcom revealed that Street Fighter V will be exclusive to PS4 and PC at the PlayStation Experience event held this past Friday. First off, this is a great move from Sony’s perspective. They don’t have their…
5 Reasons GTAV PC Will Beat The Consoles
PC gamers often have the better end of the stick, and GTAV is another title that will be just a bit sweeter on a personal computer. Since its September release in 2013, I have sunk days’ worth of time into GTAV, playing its online feature to death, and free roaming…
Bane Of Games: Rage Quitters
With so many games putting us on the edge of our seats, it is no wonder that so many people quit when they lose, but who is it helping? Maybe it is just me and my infallible sense of duty, or maybe I just hate quitting, but leaving a game…
VGU Interviews: giffgaff eSports
We recently got the chance to speak to Gregg Baker, head of community at giffgaff to talk about their new eSports platform, the tournament they are hosting at Insomnia53 in November as well as their plans going forward. SF-  How is the tournament going to work in terms of format?…
Tales of Hearts R Preview
We recently got the chance to see the opening of the new Tales game for the Playstation Vita, Tales of Hearts R. Being the first Tales game made for the system and being a remake of a game that originally appeared on the DS, is this a tale shaping up…
Revving Up for F1 2014
With less than a month ‘til the launch of F1 2014, I had the chance this weekend to race around in a preview build of the latest F1 title from Codemasters. Having missed out on F1 2013, it felt great to jump back in and feel like I was playing…
Springing Leaks: The Death of Surprise in the AAA Market
It seems that for every big budget game that is released now, we know almost everything about the game 4 months before launch. Be it through alphas, betas, early access copies, leaks, video series’ or extensive streaming of certain games, the trepidation of getting a new game and discovering something…
VGU Talks: Bloodborne TGS Trailer Analysis
With the Tokyo Game Show under way, many games are being either shown off or revealed. One of which was the PS4 exclusive Bloodborne. Previously I have been able to look over the gameplay shown off at GamesCom, but now we get more information revealed to us. New weapons, new…
VGU Talks: Destiny vs Warframe
Recently, whilst playing through both my most played and most anticipated games on the PS4, people have been telling me that a war has begun. This clash of the gamers was in the form of the Free-To-Play title Warframe and the recently released Destiny. Both games have their fanbases and…
Super Smash Bros: Final Five Predictions
We’ve had leaks, we’ve had confirmations, we’ve had angry fans and we’ve had lots of excitement. Now, the Japanese release of Super Smash Bros for 3DS is less than a week away and the big thing that Smash fans are talking about is the rumour that 5 fighters have yet…
F1 2014 – Not Another Sports Franchise?
With the release of the latest Formula One title, F1 2014, on the horizon and F1 2015 announced, I’m beginning to question the progression within the Codemasters series. F1 2014 will be the seventh Formula One title from Codemasters since they took on the license in 2008, and in recent…
Gamers aren’t dead, it’s just that being a gamer doesn’t mean anything
In response to the rather embarrassing firestorm that has been going down on Twitter, a few gaming journalists have penned pieces vehemently stating that gamers are dead. At face value I’m here to tell you that’s a load of old twoddle, but also that the authors themselves know this to be…
VGU Interviews: GoD Factory: Wingmen Part 1
I recently had the chance to speak with the fantastically named Guillaume Boucher-Vidal, founder of Nine Dots Studio Inc, about his recently released title, GoD Factory Wingmen. It was a pretty mammoth interview so it’s coming at you in two parts. Also seriously, why isn’t my name that cool? Ian:…
Insert Coin to Revive: The State of Arcades
The recent announcement of Pokkén Tournament caught many by surprise. Not only because it was a serious Pokémon fighting game, made in part by the producers of Tekken and Soul Calibur but that the game was coming out to Japanese arcades first. Cue many fans shouting about this decision, complaining that…
VGU Talks: Why EGX 2014 Is Going To Be Huge
After last years Eurogamer expo, I couldn't help but think how great the show was. The cosplays of all the different characters, all the games you can play and the great friends you can meet. Now that the expo has changed its name to EGX, I am looking forward to…
VGU Talks: What Is EGX?
With the biggest gaming convention in the UK coming in September, gamers are asking the same question "What is EGX?". EGX, formally known as the Eurogamer Expo, is a games convention that will literally show off everything you can imagine. Big Developers, Indie Titles, Cosplay, Retro Games and more will…