Adventures in influence - The Witcher 2

Yeah yeah swords and dice poker and a nekker contract. Let's get on with it.

Demo Time - Dragon's Dogma edition

Because this is no time to be beating around the bush with fancy headlines. This is a deadly serious article about the imagined relations of two trembling grotesques and the treats hidden beneath a familiar veil. Also some bonus thoughts about some other few demos I played. BONUS.

One Moment - Fez

And a different kind of nostalgia. Not of pixels but of pages.

Cheap and Used - Prince of Persia (2008)

Two punt fifty, pal. How's that? It didn't come with a case or anything but I'm not too fussy. And neither were Gamestation - they'd sell anything. Remember that? When there were game shops on the high street? Ahh, simpler times ... sun shining, birds singing. My whole life stretching out ahead of me, the first tufts of hair coiling out - at last! - from betwe-

Fez, the era of co-operation and the meta-game

When you play the meta-game, everyone and no one wins, and also everyone and no one loses. Fez, then, a game about a little man with a hat, is more than just data on your hard drive. It's also about co-operation and community. The playground of the digital age or some crap. And a little hat.

Cheap and Used - Darksiders

And so, back into these depths we tumble. Darksiders is a game, it is all the games you have ever played. Let's return to it and talk about it. Get some tea or a hot ribena and come in.

One Moment - Baten Kaitos

And suddenly it's 2005. Everything you have accomplished has vanished and now you are a child or happy or some other terrible thing. On the up/down side, Baten Kaitos just came out and you've been immersed in it for hours. Do you hear me? Immersed. Listen, it's ok for me to talk about this again so soon. Shut up.

New faces, old friends - from Nier to Saints Row the Third

Hey it's me. What? No it's me ... Alex. Yes, that's right. We've been inseparable for several years, ever since our eyes met over that fatal trolley incident in the Lidl car park. You remember. You remember me. Here are some words, let them stand as a reaffirmation of our vows to each other. The blood pact. The shuddering oath.

Tweethrough - Mass Effect 3 opening

Re-live the opening hour of Mass Effect 3 vicariously through 140-character dumps. It's what the internet was made for! Join me on a journey involving moustaches, lips gloss and the hunt for a hat. It's a space opera, everybody!

One Moment - Journey

A moment that stays with you, a photograph floating on the pool of your brain and other such arty imagery. In our new feature, which will take the internet by storm, we remember a bit or a part of a game that has stayed with us. Just one bit, a short little memento. A momento. It will take the internet by storm, did I say that yet?