Gaming Feature: Saving - Nuances and Nuisances

To save or not to save? Saving, it has been an integral part of gaming ever since it was first used. Rudimentary incarnations of it came in the form of passwords, where one would enter a series of characters to enter a specific point in the game. ...

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Game Feature: A Retro Flashback of Gaming Greats

Do you remember... Final Fantasy VII? This game holds a very special place in my heart. As a kid, I can remember playing this on the PS1, not quite understanding it as well as I do now, and maybe not playing as well as I could now, but dammit, I had fun. If you ever played this game, maybe your experiences differed slightly, but however you played the game, Final Fantasy VII is hailed as one of the greatest games in the universe ever....

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Gaming feature: Hands on with Skyrim

I used to critique games until I took an arrow to the knee... After the excruciatingly long wait, finally, the nine divines have blessed us with the gift of the fifth installment into the Elder Scrolls Series. Oh Talos, we thank ye for Skyrim and its amazing gameplay, huge, HUGE beautifully decorated open world and the captivating stories we learn about on our journey. Okay, so perhaps some would say I'm overreacting here, and whether you think...

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Gaming Feature: Freshly Ground Pokémon

Grinding - A tedious tale of repetitive leveling Around the internet forums I usually frequent, there’s a specific season that goes around, every time a new entry in the series is released, the forums will have a tendency to become more interconnected than usual; I don't mean people taking a slight interest back in the game, it gets pretty hardcore there. Soon after, I guess I get swept in all the fun as well. Two important things were realized...

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Game Feature: Australia fights for their video game rights

A fight against the censorship and lack of Australian adult video games Australian gamers have been fighting a long and hard battle to try and secure an adult rating for video games. The highest rating games can be awarded, at this very moment is MA15+. This has lead to a lot of video games that should have been classified as an adult only game getting an MA rating, meaning teenagers are currently allowed to go out and buy these violent video...

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Band of the Day: Engraved Metal

Engraved Metal AKA: Engraved Genre: Heavy Metal From: Turriff, Scotland Performing since: 2008 Facebook/Reverbation/Youtube Music Spotlight is a focus piece on various talented artists across the world, while any band may be featured it is usually smaller and less well known artists that get picked. This month's choice is a band featuring two of Confab's writers: Engrav...

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Game Review: Dead Island

Tropical paradise. Now with more zombies! Publisher: Deep Silver Developer: Techland Platforms: PlayStation 3/Xbox 360/PC Genres: First-Person-Shooter/Horror Release Date: September 9th 2011 Price: PC- £29.99 Xbox 360/PS3- £39.99 (RRP) Ok, let me just say this straight off the bat, I'm a huge zombie nut. I don't know why, but there's something so strangely compelling about the idea of undead humans stumbling around and feasting...

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Music Review: Nickleback - Silver Side Up Album

Couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing, so I wrote this review instead... Released: 11th September 2001 Genre: Alternative Metal/ Post Grunge/ Rock  Tracks: 10 Price: £4-£11.99 Record Label: Roadrunner Records Facebook/Wiki/Youtube Official Website For an album that has reached #1 in various countries including United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada you know there has to be something good about it. This was the third album published...

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Competition Corner: Win Fun Games!

Competition Corner Update: New game added: Gish! Plus 3 Microgames by the creators of Voxatron! We have four sets of the Humble Voxatron Debut Bundle to give away. That's four fantastic games for free! For a chance to win three exciting games for your Windows, Mac or Linux computer just do the following steps: Go to this article and answer the poll on the page. Answer the question below:  Which operating system...

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Game Feature: Humble Bundles and Indie Trundles

 I'd buy that for a dollar! The Humble Indie Bundles (Humble Bundles) are a series of bundled DRM-free multi-platform games, that were sold at a 'pay what you want' price point. The proceeds are split between the indie developers, two gaming related charities (Child's Play and EFF) and Humble Inc, which pays for the bandwidth and development of the promotion. The first Humble Indie Bundle went on sale from May 4 through May 11, 2010...

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