No Sweat: Video Game Difficulty
Video games make us and break us in many ways. While a lot harbour confusing story lines and questionable graphical quality, a game's challenge is something that will keep players…
Features
The Top 10 Farts in Gaming
Toots. Air biscuits. Trouser trumpets. Whatever you want to call them, farts are a natural and often hilarious part of our everyday lives, so it's only fair that they've shown…
The Rhythm Renaissance – Why Now?
This week, Activision announced the return of its once prolific rhythm franchise, Guitar Hero. In many ways, the reveal has felt inevitable ever since March 5th, when competitor Harmonix marked…
Dead Space Retrospective: Unpleasantly Brilliant
Isaac Clarke can't seem to catch a break. His childhood was less then happy: his father was never home, his mother was a religious zealot who sold all the family…
Zombies, Run! Interview with Adrian Hon
During the UK's recent flurry of gaming conventions, we stopped by the Six to Start head office in Gospel Oak, London, where we got the chance to sit down with…
Evolve: April DLC Impressions
A little less than two moths after Evolve's initial launch, Turtle Rock Studios have rolled out new DLC for the game, which includes hunters, maps and the new rock monster,…
How I Was Convinced Never to Touch Drakengard 3
Upon entering the lecture hall at Genericon XXVIII, looking forward to a panel discussion on the financial, time-sensitive, and resource management trappings of game development, The Con Artists’ speaker Scott…
Power Up Gaming’s Tastiest Video Game Easter Eggs
There’s a special blend of satisfaction and smugness that comes with discovering and deciphering a digital Easter egg. The very best are substantial enough to be interesting yet subtle enough…
Final Fantasy Type-0 HD Video Review
In recent years, Square Enix has gained an unfortunate reputation of being a publisher that doesn't care about its fans – especially those of us in the West. But if…
Second Opinion: Child of Light
Microsoft have certainly upped the ante with their Games with Gold titles for the month of April 2015. Games like Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag and Terraria are now free…
The Top 7 Groundbreaking Gameplay Mechanics
What is it that makes a great game truly great? A video game can have a solid storyline and incredible graphics, but if its gameplay foundations of fundamental and intuitive…
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Remastered Interview with Christian 'The Taxman' Whitehead
With the industry seeing such an influx of remastered titles over the past couple of years, it may seem hard to believe that a large number of gamers are clamouring…
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Remastered Interview with Simon 'Stealth' Thomley
The seminal Sonic the Hedgehog series on the Sega Genesis is one many gamers hold close to their hearts; indeed, many of us here at Power Up Gaming grew up…
Parents Who Game: Why The Social Stigma?
When you think of a gamer with kids, what comes to mind? Some might think of a cool parent, enjoying games with their children, while others might think of an…
Lore-abiding Citizen: The Top 10 Books in The Elder Scrolls
Slaying dragons and saving emperors is all well and good, but some of us know that the real fun in an Elder Scrolls game is amassing a ludicrously extensive personal…
The Rise and Fall of Rhythm Games
Simon, a four-coloured toy, made one of the first attempts to draw that line between sound and touch. In video games, this connection is something that’s been pushed, stretched, and…
Catch Up Corner: Press Start Film Review
Press Start, the indie low (and I mean low) budget film by Ed Glaser and Kevin Folliard, brought to us by Dark Maze Studios, has a lot of heart and…
Insert Coin to Continue: Can We Save the Arcades?
If you're anything like me, when you think back to the holidays of childhood, you'll fill your memory with the smell of the sea, the taste of fish and chips…
Interview with Bossa Studios' Luke Williams
I Am Bread is Bossa Studios’ follow-up to indie smash hit Surgeon Simulator 2013. The game, in which you control a control a piece of bread in its quest to…
Homeworld: A Latecomer's Perspective
It might be time to admit that I am a terrible commander. I'm the Prince of Orange and deep space is my Waterloo. A hundred fighters, dozens of frigates and…
