POCG WRITER
Adam Richardson
Writing for POCG since 1998
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ReviewThe Walking Dead: Season OneTelltale's Walking Dead is not a great adventure game mechanically, but it is one of the best pieces of interactive fiction ever made. Lee and Clementine are worth your twenty hours.→EditorialSIEGE 2012: Day One RecapDay one at SIEGE 2012: new friends, a misadventure on foot to the wrong fried-chicken joint, and a panel of industry veterans on how to actually break into making games.→ReviewJoe Danger 2: The MovieJoe Danger 2 is bigger, louder and packed with stunt-course replay value. It loses some focus, but the arcade fun holds strong.→EditorialWii U: Game Changer or Late to the Party?Nintendo's Wii U wants to be the centre of the living room with a two-screen GamePad and Miiverse, but is it a genuine game changer, or just catching up late?→EditorialOUYA: Optimism or Skepticism?The $99 Android console raised $8.5 million on Kickstarter on a promise to rescue console gaming from the mobile brain drain. Worth the hype, or too good to be true?→ReviewTony Hawk’s Pro Skater HDTony Hawk Pro Skater HD is lean, occasionally frustrating, and missing a tutorial nobody thought to include. It's also the best the series had felt in a decade. Worth every dollar at launch.→PreviewFirst Look: Guns of Icarus OnlineHands-on with Muse Games' team-based PvP airship combat, a crew lives or dies together, and there's never a dull moment.→ReviewLollipop ChainsawA gaudy, polarizing zombie hack-and-slash with a killer soundtrack and fast, fun combat. Skip the dialogue and grab it on sale.→EditorialIndie Spotlight: Fray Now Available on SteamIndie Spotlight: Brain Candy's simultaneous turn-based strategy game Fray, set in a corporate-dystopian future, is out now on Steam for $19.99.→ReviewInversionA generic cover shooter whose gravity-bending gimmick is barely used. Repetitive, cliched and forgettable, the B-movie of the genre.→EditorialA Trip Into The Secret World. Part 1A play-diary trip into The Secret World's beta: choosing the Templars, surviving the Crucible, and stepping through the Hollow Earth toward Kingsmouth.→EditorialIndie Corner: MiG Madness Out for Xbox LiveIndie Corner: MiG Madness, a Time Pilot-inspired jet-fighter arcade game with power-ups, four-player co-op and a day-night cycle, is out on Xbox LIVE Indie Games.→EditorialIndie Corner: Chompy Chomp Chomp Out on Xbox LiveIndie Corner: Chompy Chomp Chomp, a frantic local-and-online multiplayer eat-'em-up from Utopian World of Sandwiches, is out now on Xbox LIVE Indie Games.→EditorialIndie Corner: Compromised Now on Xbox Live Indie MarketplaceIndie Corner: Compromised, a 16-bit-flavoured top-down shooter with 10 levels and four boss stages, is out on the Xbox Live Indie Marketplace for 240 MS Points.→ReviewTiger Woods PGA Tour 13Total Swing Control finally gives Tiger Woods PGA Tour the difficulty it always needed, and then some. Worth the investment if golf simulation is what you are actually after.→PreviewFirst Look: Marvel HeroesDiablo creator David Brevik is building a free-to-play action-RPG out of the Marvel Universe. Trailer-only so far, but the pedigree has our attention.→ReviewUEFA EURO 2012UEFA EURO 2012 fills the football gap but leaves out qualifying rounds and charges premium DLC prices for the privilege.→PreviewFirst Look: The Secret World: Character Creation & SocietiesFuncom's "everything is true" conspiracy-horror MMO has a fascinating world and three secret societies, but the character creator is a letdown.→ReviewSniper Elite V2A tactical WW2 sniper sim with superb bullet physics and a signature X-ray kill-cam, undercut by dumb AI and a repetitive, padded campaign. Rent first.→EditorialAre MMO Subscription Plans Changing Forever?With Guild Wars 2 looming and free-to-play on the rise, is the subscription MMO finished? The numbers say the obituaries are premature.→ReviewXBlasterXBlaster gets the mech class fundamentals right and costs nothing to play. Lag is a chronic problem that caps how good it can ever be.→ReviewPaRappa the RapperPaRappa the Rapper is a PlayStation rhythm game about a dog trying to impress his sunflower girlfriend by rapping with an onion-headed kung-fu master and a Rastafarian frog. It's pure joy, and one of the most unique games ever made.→ReviewDogz 3Dogz 3 is a sandbox of virtual puppy chaos. From photo-ops to paintbrush colors, it’s way more fun than it has any right to be.→PreviewFirst Look: DriverBe the 1970s wheelman: Driver swaps the racing line for Hollywood car chases across four living 3D cities, and a replay editor to film them.→