Gaming News and Game Reviews from MMGaming
25May/121

DayZ – Worth The Hype?

Posted by Tim Mottram

 

 

 

With the recent explosion in popularity of the mod DayZ for Arma 2: Combined Ops, Seb and I decided to dive in and see what all the fuss was about. Note that I have played approximately 15 minutes in total of Arma 2 before installing and playing this mod. So without further ado, to our deaths!

23May/120

Lone Survivor review – In a post apocalyptic world, only you can be confusing

Posted by Seb May-Wilson

As I said in this weeks Video Mondaily, today's review is on Jasper Byrne's indie survival horror: Lone Survivor. Now it's worth mentioning from the word go that this was indeed a solo project from one single man, so that ought to be taken into consideration when you have a look at the video from Monday and any other bits and pieces of information that you pick up about the game. I say this but honestly, I don't need to make any excuses for Lone Survivor because it is actually absolutely fantastic!

The game focuses on your character, an unnamed and unknown survivor of some apocalyptic disaster which has turned most of the population into weird shambling horrors. One hesitates to call them zombies because it's never mentioned that they are dead, rather the creatures are the victims of some virus which ravaged the population of the world/city/apartment complex. Generally I thought of the creatures as "mutants" so that's what I will call them for the duration of this review (this name was helped along by the appearance of some other unusual enemies, but I digress). The game's premise is rather simple your character ("you"?) have been holed up in your flat for weeks now and have decided that it is time to escape your apartment complex and escape the city itself - perhaps the idea is to search for survivors or to head to Pacific Playland (WOO! TWINKIES!), whatever survivors do.

21May/120

Video Mondaily – Lonely Seb takes on Jasper Byrne’s Lone Survivor

Posted by Seb May-Wilson

Ladies and Gentlemen, lend me your ears! And I would appreciate it if those of you whose ears have already been lent would also lend me your eyes because in my experience it's rather difficult to read something by listening to it. I mean don't get me wrong, I have tried to press my ear to my laptop before in order to listen to whatever article I was trying to read but that only works once in every ten times, and even then I don't hear everything.

It is that time of the week where we once again delve into the world of games with an awesome video in which we show off both our own awesome and the awesome of someone's game. The game in question this week is Lone Survivor, a recent Indie Survival Horror game, by Jasper Byrne. I personally delve into great depth and detail in the game to show it off to it's fullest extent (pfffffft)!

16Apr/120

Endweek News (unfortunately late) – Much releases and trailers, some early 0x10c screenshots, a new Borderlands character and some Bullshit Excuses

Posted by Seb May-Wilson

A number of you might have noticed the conspicuous absence of any Midweek News this past week. Well I fear those sharp-eyed amongst you to have spotted that will probably spot similar things again over the coming weeks due to a number of excuses that we at MMGaming have. Very good excuses actually, I'll have you know! We can't spend all our time playing games and talking about them...

Ye gods! What the hell am I saying?!?

Levity aside, it's actually true. Nick and Josh both have commitments outside of the world of gaming which make the time they can spend on MMGaming fairly limited and me and Tim have now, once again, entered that foul time period known to all in University... Yes my friends we are once again preparing for exams and Tim at least won't be posting AT ALL while doing so. Coincidentally we both finish on the 14th of May so you should see a return to normal around then.

3Apr/120

Overhaul

Posted by Tim Mottram

Hey folks!

You may be wondering why things have been slowing down of late in regards to reviews/news and other shenanigans and I just want to inform ya'll to our plans. While we have been receiving steady viewership (thanks guys!) we are looking to overhaul the site into something more consistent and high quality. With that in mind there is going to be a lot of changes coming in over the next couple of weeks and as a result posts will be sparse. Yet have no fear! Things are on the up and we hope it will stay that way. Keep an eye on us and you won't be disappointed!

Regards,

The MMGaming Team

 

EDIT: We are also considering changing to a Joomla layout (from the current WordPress layout) which might result in some downtime while we mess around to get it working. If the site isn't up for any reason just assume that we are working on it and come back in a couple of hours!

7Mar/120

Doom 4 Leaked Art and Rumours

Posted by Seb May-Wilson

Once again it seems that there were recently rumours that ID Software had cancelled Doom 4. This was coupled with the leaking of, I understand hundreds, of concept art, pictures and graphics all supposedly of Doom 4. Now you might have already heard about either one of these (the leak or the rumours) and wonder why we haven't covered it yet. Well the reason is quite simple, I just wanted to make sure that I didn't waste my own time (and yours) with MORE speculation.

And I was in the right, on both counts bizarrely. Doesn't happen often.

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23Feb/120

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Posted by Seb May-Wilson

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is indeed the title of the next game to be produced by Frictional Entertainment, and no the title doesn't make sense to me either. It's also being developed by TheChineseRoom (the same people who brought us Dear Esther) so I think we can quite possibly expect an awful lot of awesome coming our way.

If you've visited the official teaser website and click on the picture you are taken to an alternate reality game (which I haven't really looked at, couldn't really work it out) which has naturally been driving fans and gaming websites alike into an absolute frenzy.

20Feb/120

Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Justine review

Posted by Seb May-Wilson

In honour of the teaser website for the next Amnesia game by Frictional Games I decided that I would do a retrospective on the original Amnesia and it's add-on Justine. Allow me to start the review by mentioning that I am well aware of how much has been said about this game by every reviewer in existence and I am likewise aware that there probably hasn't been anyone who's ever played it that didn't like it.

Well unless the player absolutely cannot stand having to shower every time after gaming from having pissed themselves in fear too much.

13Feb/120

Teaser for new Amnesia

Posted by Seb May-Wilson

Frictional Games, the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent have set up their lightning rods over their dark castle. Lightning forks around the sky and smashes into the rods power the foul and evil machines in the depths of the castle. The wind howls through the grim pine trees and the sound of screams can be heard even over the wind. Screams of blood curdling horror and fear. Fog wraps around the black stones and condensation drips like blood onto the floor. And above all this a few voices cry in unison. A single guttural cry of "IT LIVES!!!"

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27Jan/120

Dead Island DLC

Posted by Seb May-Wilson

Some new DLC for Dead Island will be hitting the Island on the 1st of February. Apparently featuring the main game's original antagonist, Colonel Ryder White, it makes for an interesting idea for some DLC. Perhaps it's a prequel of some sort... I don't know enough about Dead Island to be able to say...

What I do know, is that there is a trailer, it's pretty cool and the DLC will probably be full of even more awesome and gruesome bashing and slashing of zombies to bits. And disembowelling. And electrocuting. And shooting. Hell how many ways are there to actually KILL a zombie?!?