Helen K Parker
Helen K Parker
Articles by Helen K Parker
Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time
Friday, 19 April 2013
After a long break from thievery – both in the real world and in the anthropomorphic universe he calls home – dapper gentleraccoon thief Sly Cooper is back doing what he does best: pinching things.... Read more... |
Sluggish Morss/Sluggish Morss: A Delicate Time in History
Friday, 05 April 2013
It’s easy to understand, while you’re being chastised by a pair of psychedelically coloured elephant-like beings over your inability to collect enough coins, why this new game from indie developer... Read more... |
Gears of War: Judgement
Friday, 22 March 2013
As the sun sets on the age of the Xbox 360, its swansong is an entertaining game that shows promising potential, but doesn’t really knock your socks off. A prequel to the previous Gears of War games... Read more... |
Antichamber
Friday, 15 March 2013
You have just walked into a large white room. The only thing in the room is a sign on the ceiling. You look up. The sign says, "Don’t look down." You immediately look down. Before you have time to... Read more... |
Metal Gear Rising : Revengeance
Friday, 22 February 2013
There has been some serious philosophising going on in the Konami offices, about whether it is morally acceptable to graphically slice up human beings into bite-sized chunks with katana swords in... Read more... |
Dead Space 3
Saturday, 09 February 2013
Poor, poor Isaac Clarke. Life has been tough for the unluckiest space engineer in the history of space engineering; not only has his girlfriend dumped him and got herself lost trying to track down... Read more... |
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
Friday, 25 January 2013
The news that Studio Ghibli were making a computer game was met with resounding excitement when it was announced way back in 2010. Right from the off the possibility of being able to adventure... Read more... |
DmC: Devil May Cry
Monday, 14 January 2013
It’s been a rough couple of years for Capcom and their fandom. After the slating they received for rebooting their Resident Evil franchise, the storm has continued with their attempts to do the same... Read more... |
Kentucky Route Zero: Act 1
Friday, 11 January 2013
There’s nothing more off-putting in a game than a screen filled with awful and waffling text that just keeps on awfully waffling. It’s one of the reasons Final Fantasy and I don’t get along. It’s... Read more... |
Knytt Underground
Friday, 04 January 2013
In a world populated by magical sprites, fairies, critters and (every now and then) a killer robot, a mute amnesiac sprite called Mi is about to have a really bad day. Her society - built below the... Read more... |
Will You Ever Return? 2
Friday, 28 December 2012
I’m sure we can all remember the joys of making collages and tissue-box houses/fortresses as children. And we all remember plasticine, right? Innocent childhood art materials that kept us busy while... Read more... |
Perspective
Friday, 21 December 2012
In the world of gaming there are many pioneers, but it is those uninhibited by the constraints of the uber-publishers who have the true freedom to experiment, excel and evolve their art form. It is... Read more... |
Best of 2012: The Top Five Games
Friday, 14 December 2012
Dreading a Christmas of teenaged tantrums and drunken debates? Keep the hell-brood occupied with one of the best five releases of the year, listed in ascending order of preference. Read more... |
Thomas Was Alone
Friday, 07 December 2012
Thomas was alone. And then, he wasn’t. As story-time opening lines go, this one is on a par with "once upon a time" in its simplicity. Simplicity, however, can be misleading. Our eponymous hero... Read more... |
Far Cry 3
Friday, 30 November 2012
If there’s one thing that can ruin the tropical thrill-seeking holiday of a lifetime, it’s got to be waking up, bound and gagged, in the cage of a nasty organisation of modern day pirates who trade... Read more... |
PID (Planet in Distress)
Friday, 23 November 2012
Kurt has fallen asleep on the space-bus on the way home from school. To make matters worse, he has been transported to a strange planet where the buses don’t run anymore, trapped in the... Read more... |
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