There are some things that only videogames can do. For me,Dark Souls' predecessor Demon's Souls was emblematic of all of them. Where most games do their best to be something else – to tell a story like a novel, to impress with cinematic techniques like a film – Demon's Souls is pure game, a complete and darkly fascinating vision that makes no concessions to the modern conce... more.

"We're chatting," confirms Cloud gaming company OnLive believes that if Sony and MS were to integrate its Cloud service on PS3 and Xbox 360, they would "make great consoles". The Californian firm made waves at E3 earlier this month by showing off its new controller, which connects to OnLive's servers via most modern TVs and tablets wirelessly. It demoed a range of games playing glitch-free on iP... more.

There is no Battlefield canon. BF1942’s World War II doesn’t shape the sci-fi tundra battles of BF2142, and buying XP boosters as a cartoon Nazi has no bearing on Bad Company 2’s royal rumbles. The developers, DICE, go where they want, and after years of circle-strafing around the subject, it’s time for Battlefield 3 My first glimpse of it at DICE’s Stockholm HQ is a bit of a shoc... more.

Ask anybody from Relic to comment on Space Marine and we bet they'll use the phrase 'visible violent deaths'. They're the buzzwords central to this project: a shooter-cum-chainsworder that's all about getting up close with Orks and Chaos and stamping them into giant red puddles. To a point. We played four chunks of the game in total - purging Orks from an infested industrial complex in a m... more.