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Top 10 reasons Kinect sucks

I carefully considered the title of this article, but couldn’t come up with anything more succinct or unambiguous as the one I chose. Kinect, quite simply, sucks.The most recent statement from Microsoft outlines exactly how hard it sucks. Kinect is like ...

Top 10 best and worst of videogame hair

The difficulty in depicting hair convincingly has been around since the inception of videogames. With too few pixels to represent waving locks of hair, most of the earliest games characters were bald or wore hats. Whether it was Pacman’s smooth dome or ...

Top 5 Unintentionally Funny Game Moments

As gamers, we spend much of our time shooting, fighting, crafting, exploring, pwning and swearing at opponents, our controllers and the PS3′s firmware updates. The question is, can games make us laugh too. Well, apart from Monkey Islands and anything ...

Top 10 Embarrassingly Bad Moments in Video Game Marketing

While there are always a few great ads and campaigns for games and consoles, the majority end up being patronising, offensive, childish, desperate, dull or just mystifyingly bad. With 80′s power suit-wearing advertising executives trying to sell products ...

Top 10 Worst Cartoons Based on Videogames

Movie adaptations of videogames have frequently been awful. They exist as a way for a studio to get name recognition for a genre film and allow a fledgling Director to get their first shot at a feature. Most often they alienate the fanbase of the game by ...

Top Ten Worst Game Levels

Top 5 crazy things built in Minecraft

Minecraft allows you to create anything you can imagine that can be shaped with square blocks. From the basic interactions between wood, stone, glass, water and other materials, you have all the tools you need to craft complex and dynamic objects and ...

Top 10 (Proven) Health Benefits of Video Games

Most gamers play games for one reason: because they're fun. The things that makes us happy in life are always worth indulging in, we only get one life and we should enjoy it as much as we can; but there are those who claim that gaming is bad for us ...

Top 5 religions that would make great games

When it comes to finding inspiration for new games, developers are happy to look to films, books, comics, myths and folklore to find rich veins of inspiration. Why not consider major religions too? Sure, we get the odd title like Dante’s Inferno that’s ...

Top 5 indie games of 2010 you can play right now

While most of your time last year was probably spent playing WOW Cataclysm, Black Ops, Halo and God of War, there was a whole other world of gaming waiting for you. That world is indie games, a strange place full of experimental gameplay, stylized and ...

Top 5 awkward videogame sex scenes

In the wake of the truly awful sex scenes in Dragons Age 2, I started to wonder if the medium was anywhere near mature enough to tackle this difficult area of human interaction. Rarely can movies get sex scenes right, and there’s an annual award ...

Top 10 underwhelming videogame boss fights

Love them or hate them, boss battles have existed in games since almost the beginning of our hobby and will continue to challenge and frustrate us for as long as games exist. What happens when they disappoint us though?This list showcases the most ...

Top 10 plot twists in games

Games surprise us less often than movies. Whiles there’s thousands of films with double crosses, narrative shifts and twist endings, most games are as predictable as a spiky haired amnesiac in a JRPG. Whether it’s an unexpected plot twist, an unforeseen ...

Top 5 Reasons not to buy Halo Reach

The Halo marketing storm has well and truly hit, if you haven’t heard the meaningless phrase "Remember Reach" then you’ve been living under a rock with no cable and internet. The web has been plastered with Reach coloured wallpaper, you can’t ...

Top 5 better choices for Catwoman than Anne Hathaway

We all know that Nolans Batman movies have been great. Many people doubted that Heath Ledger would be a good Joker, but now we look back on his performance as the definitive version of Batmans ultimate nemesis. Is it fair then to doubt Nolan can pull the ...

Top 5 Tense Movie Face-offs

Some of my favourite scenes in movies happen when two actors get a chance to face off and confront each other. They might be about to shoot it out or engage in a kung fu tournament to determine the fate of our world, but the really thrilling part is the ...

Top 10 times when its acceptible for a guy to cry at movies

While it’s socially acceptable for lady folk to break into tears at the mere sight of sparkly Edward and whiney Bella or to unleash torrents of tears to whatever sentimental, sob-fest Nicholas Sparks has written on his Notebook, it’s not the same for ...

Top 10 games to play when you’re depressed

We all have tough days, tough weeks and even tough years. At our lowest points we need to find a way to get through the day and so we look at the hobby that normally just entertains us and we ask that hobby to also make us feel better about ourselves.

Top 10 most exciting games of 2011

As 2010 wraps up what games will make your 2011 a great year?

Top 10 coolest guns in movies

A strange list for a pacifist, tree huggin', war protestin' guy like me to write, but guns in movies are sometimes very cool and anything cool can and should be put in a top 10 list.

Top 10 original videogame halloween costumes

If you want to represent your hobby at halloween, there’s two paths you can take. You can dress as a videogame character that you’re non-videogame-loving friends will recognise, or you can go for broke and pick something original. For all those who don’t ...

Top 5 Overrated games

Top 5 Streetfighter vs Tekken match-ups

Super Street Fighter 4 – Top 5 Tips for beginners

I recently picked up Super Streetfighter 4 for a crazy-cheap price. I had the original Street fighter 4 and probably racked up over a thousand games. I enjoyed it greatly, but over time I got increasingly annoyed with it till I was shouting at the TV.