Just from watching the trailers I can say at this point that Trevor is easily my favourite character.

Meet Michael.

Meet Franklin.

Meet Trevor.

GTA V is slated for release September 17th.

Wilson is now stuck in a land, one which he isn’t familiar with. Shortly after being teleported, a suspicious looking chap appears before Wilson telling him that he’d best find some food before the night falls. This mysterious chap, appearing and then disappearing into thin air, dressed in a suit and smoking a cigar, is rather devilish. However, the place to where he has brought Wilson doesn’t seem like hell at all. It’s just a wilderness without your local convenience store, and that’s it. I guess all we have to do as a player is find some food, and Don’t Starve!

Don’t Starve is an indie adventure game made by Klei Entertainment. In a world visually inspired by the Tim Burton classics such as nightmare before Christmas, you attempt to scrape out a living by foraging berries, digging out carrots and capturing odd-looking rabbits to prevent yourself from starving.

Surely this will come in handy some time soon!

This seems a lot easier than it actually is. On the first day, there are rabbits in every hole, berries on every bush and carrots pop up from the ground every 5 yards. Then night falls, you make a nice fire and decide this is where you’ll make your stand. There seem to be enough resources, so it should go smoothly.

Then the second day comes, and you find out that you have to cover more ground than you did before, and you have to collect some new wood for the fire that burned away into the morning light. Your stomach is growling again, yet the food sources you found so easily during the first day have not yet renewed themselves. So you decide to explore a little bit further, you run into some weird looking altar where pig heads are mounted on spears, and a broken stone lies in the middle of them, but it turns out to be nothing.

You’ve walked quite some way and have found the food you now desperately require, but with the sun setting it’s time to get back to the safety of the camp. As dusk falls, you’re still hungry and you feel the stress of the pending darkness of the night, but you rush back to your camp-fire. Things start to blur on the way there, shadows appear… different. Surviving in this wilderness is not going to be easy at all!

Silly rabbits, they fall for it every time…

You’ve made it to day three and some of the resources surrounding your camp are slowly replenishing. Rabbits breed like rabbits, and the ones you killed off seem to have had some offspring before you cruelly ended the father. No worries though, they’ll be dead soon! With a full stomach in the morning, you decide to go look for resources that could make your life a little easier. You walk out quite some way again, because trees and rock don’t regrow overnight, and then you see a spiders nest. Now, nothing has been quite malevolent yet and you apparently require some silk to make a fishing rod. You attack the nest and three or four spiders pop out and assault your tired body immediately. You can’t defend yourself, but you can hurt them with an axe you made earlier, so you do. Soon you have some silk in your pocket and have slaughtered your first group of monsters! The monsters have left you badly injured, and though you won’t bleed out, a few more hits will surely end Wilson. Better find some food to bolster our health and fill our stomachs again. But nightfall is coming already, so it’s time to head back to camp!

Day four starts off with a less encouraging feel, and Wilson’s stomach has shrivelled. Our health could be toppled by the slightest breeze, and we still don’t have anything that could sustain us until we find a way home. There’s growling in the distance, shadows moving, and slowly Wilson is losing his mind. Everything thing seems to move, and to make things worse, the growls turn into barks. Before long our camp is being marauded by big, black and angry looking wolves. One snaps at Wilson, nothing more was needed. Wilson crashes to the ground, the screen goes black, and that was that.

Suddenly, a strike of lightening revives Wilson at the spear-mounted pig heads, and annihilates the stone slab. So that thing from a few days ago was a resurrection shrine. I’m sure Wilson welcomed death after those few days of suffering, because this is no life, when all he can manage is to not starve.

I finally manage to grow some of my own food, but Wilson’s sentiment underscores it’s futility.

So, what have we learned about Don’t Starve? It definitely isn’t a casual indie game. Although you can save the game and quit whenever you like, you can only reload from that point when you restart the game. So when you’re dead you lose everything, unless you’re lucky enough to find one of those pig-headed resurrection shrines. Don’t Starve is a hardcore survival game that manages beautifully to capture the essence of survival in the wilderness. Food resources may appear common, but unless you effectively ration them you will find they disappear like snow in sunlight. And when that happens, you take more daring steps to obtain food from more dangerous sources, and dangerous food sources tend to get you killed.

So in conclusion, Don’t Starve is an isometric survival game that let’s you experience the despair of scraping out a life in the wild. If you enjoy other crafting and survival games such as Minecraft or DayZ you are bound to enjoy this game. Don’t Starve is still in beta but you can’t really tell, and it can only get better down the road! So for £10 on Steam there’s no real reason not to give this a go!

The trailer shows off a few things, including multiplayer features, circuits, stages and car customisation. Codemasters boast 6 billion variations of car designs, so I guess those racers who chase a unique look to their ride will be plenty happy with that.

Forget the disappointment that is SimCity for now, this game is being developed by just the one guy, and it’s looking pretty damn impressive. His creation is called Banished, and I believe it’s still in the alpha state, but I’m wanting to get my hands on it right now, because it just looks so good. I get the impression that it’s going to be one of my future favourite games.

For more information on Banished, click this link. Once you’ve read more about the game, I guarantee you’ll be following the progress of it right up until the release. In the meantime though, check out this developer demo.

Watch as the Roman Army get ambushed by the tribesmen of Germania.

The new game will be called Call of Duty: Ghosts, and the box art suggests that this game will most likely be set in the present day, or in the near future. I don’t really give a shit about the era though – just give me a good, enjoyable Call of Duty game for old time’s sake.

Due to this slip-up by Tesco, It’s yet to be seen whether or not Activision and Infinity Ward will take the Ubisoft approach and reveal more of their game earlier than expected, just like when the Assassin’s Creed III poster was leaked way before the release of the game.

Just like in Melbourne, I had a poor qualifying session, and this saw me starting from way back on the grid, so I had to make some desperate moves. This one’s filled with driver errors, controversy and rain – a very frustrating race for me, especially when I’m not allowing myself the rewind feature!

Look out for the bizarre last lap.

Just have a look at this trailer, and whether you own Far Cry 3 or not, you’re going to say “what the fuck?” at least once, whether it be in your mind or out loud.

Fary Cry 3: Blood Dragon will be available for digital download on May 1.

Conclusion: Ubisoft, take my money.

However, here’s the catch… it is not a Rocksteady Studios game, which may worry most. This hefty task has been handed over to Warner Bros. Games Montreal. So, like, is that still okay? Well, it should be, if the guys over there know that it’ll be their heads if they get it horribly wrong! Besides, the games are published by WB themselves anyway, so they must know what they’re doing, right… right??

Arkham Origins is set several years before the events that took place in the first in the series, Arkham Asylum, and you’ll be assuming the position of a younger Batman, hence Origins. There’ll be a whole host of new villains never before seen in the video game series; Black Mask being the main head, and he’s ordered a manhunt for the juvenile vigilante. I’m going to go ahead and guess that the Gotham City Police Department won’t be too friendly with Batman either, being that it is the Bat’s early days, so there’s obviously a lot scepticism surrounding the vigilante’s début.

Black Mask is out for the Bat’s head, just like Ozzy!

I understand that the area in Arkham Origins will be twice as big as the area in Arkham City, split into two districts, north and south. The northern half of the map will be similar to Arkham City, but it will obviously be a little less… corrupted, but still of course very much corrupted. The southern parts of the Origins map will be New Gotham, and that’ll be the classier part of town, but I bet that’s still pretty corrupted, too.

So yes, it will be another open world, free roaming game, with the introduction of a bigger map to explore, but nonetheless it’s a double-edged sword. In my opinion, Arkham Asylum was a better game in comparison to Arkham City, mainly because I preferred the intense setting of the Asylum, for the atmosphere and the aesthetics. Whilst not meaning to burn Arkham City too much, I didn’t care for the open world aspect, and found myself very much outside of the story at times, instead of being right in the thick of it, constantly, like I felt in the Asylum. Because I’d burned myself out with Assassin’s Creed around the time of Arkham City’s release, I had little urge to play another open world, free roaming game, which was a real shame.

Arkham Origins, like in the Batman Detective comics from DC, will feature a lot of detective work indeed, with a bit of case work on the side.

Here’s a nice snippet from the press release from WB.

Batman: Arkham Origins features an expanded Gotham City and introduces an original prequel storyline set several years before the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum andBatman: Arkham City, the first two critically acclaimed games of the franchise.  Taking place before the rise of Gotham City’s most dangerous criminals, the game showcases a young and unrefined Batman as he faces a defining moment in his early career as a crime fighter that sets his path to becoming the Dark Knight. As the story unfolds, players will meet many important characters for the first time and forge key relationships.

From October 25th, 2013, Batman: Arkham Origins will be available on PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii U.

It’s all exciting stuff, but are you worried by the change of developers for this prequel? Let us know in the comment section below.

F1 2012 is a fantastic racing sim, and one of the finest racing games Codemasters have ever produced, but it’s always a bit annoying when the latest game launches when the season which it’s based on is drawing to a close. So we’re then left with an out-dated video game for the majority of the new season. However, it isn’t too much of a bother when the gameplay is as good as it is. It’s only the drivers and teams that are out-dated after all, and I’m sure PC racers like myself would be able to get a mod somewhere that could rectify this small problem.

Anyhow, I’m starting a fresh career, and I’ve picked Force India to be my first team. I admire their team in the real world of F1, and I much prefer their car over the other lesser teams I had the option to choose from, such as Toro Rosso, so it was a no-brainer really.

Starting in Melbourne, at the Australian Grand Prix for round 1 of the new season, I battle it out with Alonso and Webber, as well as tyre-ware, to bring home a very competitive result for the team, after a very poor qualifying session. This race needed a balance of maximum attack, and maximum defense, hence the tyre-ware.