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1001 Previews: Star Admiral
Star Admiral is a multiplayer trading-card game for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. It sees players assemble a vast fleet of stylish but also threatening 3D spaceships, and lead them into...
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So this is what the end of the world looks like
Hinterland Studio Inc’s project for their first-person post-disaster survival simulation The Long Dark has a funding deadline of 16 October 2013 on the Kickstarter website. At the time of writing it...
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Light for The Long Dark
In September we became backers for the atmospheric The Long Dark, a first-person post-disaster survival simulation from Canadian developer Hinterland Studios. The Kickstarter project has now completed...
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Disney releases its first Star Wars game
Disney has released its first Star Wars game since acquiring George Lucas’ license last year, and it’s probably not what you would have expected. Called Tiny Death Star and developed by Tiny Tower...
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PlayStation 4 PlayRoom abuse
I think Kotaku said it best with ‘why we can’t have nice things’ when talking about The PlayRoom, an augmented reality game designed to show off the capabilities of the PlayStation 4 and its new Eye...
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1001 Previews: Contradiction
How would you feel if you were in charge of a movie, determining what happens next while being taken on one hell of a ride? Well, now your chance is here thanks to an amazing new Kickstarter project...
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Santa’s rampage comes to an end
While most people are in the process of clearing away the leftover food, torn wrapping paper and empty mince pie boxes from Christmas, the 1001-Up.com team sat down to do their own tiding up in Viscera...
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1001 Previews: COIN Impact: Operation Thunderhead
In the current market, when someone mentions the words ‘war game’ it’s only natural to think of big-name epic titles like Call of Duty and Battlefield where you can engage in realistic combat and...
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Second time lucky for Contradiction
At the end of last year, Tim Follin kindly answered our questions about his Kickstarter campaign for Contradiction. This week we received sad news that the campaign failed to reach its target; but is...
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'She is afraid of this'
Reblogged from The Mental Attic: On my way to work one morning last week, I came across an article in the newspaper that caught both my attention and anger. I normally only glance at the headlines...
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1001 Reviews: Rez HD
This award-winning wireframe arcade music-based shooter by Tetsuya Mizuguchi was originally released for the Sega Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 in 2002. Has the HD version helped the original gameplay...
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Your Friends. Your Drama. Not your Life.
Tomodachi Life is one of the best-selling games on Nintendo’s 3DS in Japan, reaching 1.82 million sales in December 2013. But the gaming giant has recently angered its gay fans by refusing to include...
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Same-sex marriage and video games: a sensible discussion
As my recent post about children and video games proved, the 1001-Up.com guys can sometimes have a mature conversation. And following on from the outcry against Nintendo earlier this week a lot of...
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Guilty pleasures: Meow Meow Star Acres
Ever loved a game but were too scared to admit to it in public? Maybe you’ve denounced an EA Sports annual title as a blatant marketing ploy only to go home and try to win the World Cup? Perhaps you’ve...
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1001 Reviews: Dungeon Keeper
By creating a game that started an entire genre you have to expect some critical viewers to examine your game. Dungeon Keeper is a game that truly stands the test of time, although it is not without...
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The soap opera of EVE
It’s been over a decade since CCP Games unleashed EVE Online onto the world. Since then the MMO space-sim has earned itself a dedicated player-base, sprawling economy, corporate espionage and tales of...
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1001 Future: Rocksmith 2014
Rocksmith 2014 is more of a tool for learning to play guitar but its combination of Guitar Hero style gameplay, Session Mode, and the bounty of mini-game available in the Guitarcade make this software...
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1001 Future: Goat Simulator
Goat Simulator was made by Coffee Stain Studios in hopes to become the ultimate game in goat simulation. It took off with an infectious display of tomfoolery, hijinks and insanity which spawned...
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Disappointing Video Games: Black & White 2
Have you ever spent months waiting for a game, to finally get your hands on it and realise that it just wasn’t worth it? Or was there ever a title you played that was so buggy, with a story so awful...
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1001 Reviews: Alter Ego
Ever imagined what your life would have been like if you’d set out on a different path and made completely different choices? Well wonder no more and pick up a copy of Activision’s 1986 life-simulation...
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