It’s not often we review a service, but seen as this is the closest we’ll get to Netflix over here we thought we’d give it a look – is it any good?

The LoveFilm service is a free download from the XMB on your Playstation 3. However it requires a subscription to use (Minimum of £5.99 a month) and it’ll allow you to get discs too if you so desire.

The first comparison everyone makes (and i even made it in the short text) is with Netflix in the US & Canada. If you’re going in to this

“16 Years in the Making” they say, but is it as good as those games from 16 years ago?

Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1

Publisher: Sega
Developer: Dimps/Sonic Team
Format Reviewed: iOS (£5.99)
Also available on: Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii (From Week Beginning 11th Oct)

So, think back to where you were 16 years ago. Chances are you were either a Sega or Nintendo fan boy.

Members of the NDF had their massively overrated Super Mario World (96 “levels” that are all pretty much the same pfft), whilst we Sega Warriors had the awesome Sonic 3 followed

Andrew Bryant has 7 months to live, so checks out an indie Homeworld demake!

Flotilla

Publisher: Blendo Games
Developer: Blendo Games
Format Reviewed: PC (Steam Edition)
Also available on: Xbox 360

Babies are hard work, as anyone who has one can likely attest to. They also eat into your gaming time. The genius of Flotilla stems from the fact that this isn’t a problem…

You play an unseen yet hopelessly dashing debonair space captain type (with a twirly moustache and a space hamster familiar) who has just received some horrible news. With 7 months left to live, there’s

Andrew Shepard (nee Bryant) returns to give those Reapers another damn good kicking…

Mass Effect 2

Publisher: EA
Developer: BioWare
Format Reviewed: PC (Digital Deluxe Edition)
Also available on: Xbox 360

“You always have a choice Shepard” uttered The Illusive Man to the flickering hologram of the recently resurrected commander as the Infiltrator, hero of the Skilian Blitz and Battle of the Citadel (and, in my opinion, THE ONE TRUE SHEPARD) stared impassively at his old foe and new employer.

Powerful words indeed – ones that perfectly sum up the Mass Effect 2 experience.

BioWare’s latest entry into

Andrew Bryant punches dogs… (AND IN THE GAME!)

Game Title: Borderlands
Publisher: 2K Games
Developer: Gearbox Studios
Format Reviewed: PC (Retail)
Also available on: Xbox 360, PS3

If there’s one game that set the goal posts for how to do co-operative play, it was Valve’s Left 4 Dead, the 2008 zombie survival success story – building a game solely around the concept of co-op play is a tall order, even in these highly-connected days of internet and social networking, and is something Borderlands, a pseudo role-playing shooter/dungeon crawling hybrid from Gearbox Software, attempts to build on, assuming

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, Batman!

Game Title: Batman: Arkham Asylum
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Developer: Rocksteady Studios
Format Reviewed: PC (Retail)
Also available on: Xbox 360, PS3
Price: £17 (PC) – £30 (Console)

It’s always great when a small developer comes out of nowhere and shows the world how to make a game. Despite a small dabble with a sequel to Urban Chaos, itself produced by fellow ex-compatriots Mucky Foot, Batman is the first big-budget offering for the British-based

Andrew Bryant has found the perfect solution to reaching that jar on the top shelf!

Game Title: Machinarium
Publisher: Amanita Design
Developer: Amanita Design
Format Reviewed: PC (Digital Download)
Price: ~£14.99

Graphics are often the be-all and end-all for games these days, with elementssuch as gameplay and plot forced into a back seat roll.  Luckily, Machinarium has all of these in veritable mechanical spades.

Amanita Design are no stranger to kooky universes – the award-winning Samarost games have wowed a fair few people since 2003 and Machinarium continues this trend – set in a closed mechanical society populated

Who’d have thought it that a game of golf would be a good cure for pre-marital strife!

Game Title: Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures: The Bogey Man!
Publisher: Telltale Games
Developer: Telltale Games/Aardman
Format Reviewed: PC (Review)
Also Available on: XBLA
Price: $8.95 | $34.95 for Season Pass

It’s safe to say by now that if you’re reading a review of the final entry in a series of episodic adventure games, you’re either incredibly indecisive, a bit over-protective of your money (seriously, its $9) or just a completist.  Anyway, Telltale’s Wallace & Gromit series draws to a