"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
~ Anton Chekhov
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
~ Dr. Suess
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
~ Douglas Adams
“Do you have bricks for wheat? Anybody want to trade bricks for my wheat? Anyone?” Settlers of Catan is a multiplayer board game created in Germany, and has sold over fifteen million copies in more than twenty-five languages since its release in 1995. German-style board games usually have simple rules that involve direct and indirect […]
As an improvement to Final Fantasy XIII, Square Enix has released a follow-up called Final Fantasy XIII-2. Anyone serious about gaming might call Final Fantasy the ultimate JRPG (Japanese Role Playing Game). Critics of Final Fantasy XIII complained that the storyline was too linear and that it lacked mini-games and side quests associated with some […]
Last year when Bioware made the announcement that Mass Effect 3 would be sporting Kinect integration, many a gamer let out a groan at the thought. We all imagined ourselves bouncing around our lounges trying desperately to dodge bullets and flailing like madmen in order to get our weapons to work properly. But as more […]
Throughout my gaming experience there have always been certain games that have attracted me more than others, games that stand out more for their breathtaking artistic visuals than for gameplay or graphic excellence. Unfortunately most of these games seem to be shrugged off by the general gaming community for various reasons, but I have always […]
2011 was a great year for gamers, we had a bumper crop of game releases that had even the least hardcore gamer salivating. But 2011 is now behind us and it is time to soldier on ahead into the new year! Normally gamers would expect very little from the gaming world so early in the […]
It seems that the new instalment in the Call of Duty franchise, Modern Warfare 3 beat James Cameron‘s Avatar‘s record to become the fastest selling entertainment product of all time. According to The Independent: The video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is the fastest-selling entertainment product of all time, breaking the $1bn sales […]
Games are quickly becoming as elaborate and long-running as movie trilogies and novel series. The level of graphic detail demanded of games is now on par with Michael Bay movies, and there’s a definite goldmine lying in every military-style shooter. (Though the obsession escapes me: Battlefield 3 is interchangable with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare […]
Being the full-on Sims addict that I am, I was very excited when the trailers for The Sims Medieval started coming out. The concept was great, taking the Sims back to medieval times, fighting battles, rescuing damsels! It seemed like the perfect expansion, and in some ways it was. The only real issue that I […]
Most of us have at least one gamer in our lives and some of us are gamers ourselves, but when it comes to buying gifts for gamers not all of us know what the right game is to buy. So in an attempt to make the decision a little easier, we here at Exclus1ves have […]
Get ready to play like a Rockstar! Rockstar Games recently announced that they are (finally) busy with production on Grand Theft Auto V. This was the official press release from their Newswire page: We are very proud to officially announce that Grand Theft Auto V is in full development. Developed by series creator Rockstar North, […]
