Author Archives: Neil Bason

Neil Bason

Member of the TiX team, borderline obsessive gamer and mocker of motion control. Published Freelance Journalist with work in print and online....can often be found on Xbox LIVE as "BaseAllstar" , will also often be heard calling for a medic....Northern monkey boy living in Cornwall....Looking forward to Halo 4, the next gen of consoles and something to drag me away from Football Manager....Pleased to meet you.

WRC 3 Review

By Neil Bason | Published: October 28, 2012

Milestone’s latest, WRC 3, is a game in a difficult place. It’s not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination and if anything actually kept me highly entertained for a good long while. It’s just that during that long while I was constantly comparing it to that king of the rally genre, DIRT. [...]

Remember Me Remembering You

By Neil Bason | Published: October 26, 2012

Capcom are offering the opportunity for people worldwide to become immortalised in their upcoming game, Remember Me. Two initiatives have been launched that see gamers and designers having the chance to get far more personal with their game than ever before.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 Review

By Neil Bason | Published: October 18, 2012

You don’t have to walk far down the dusty corridors of gaming’s recent past to stumble upon a time when fans of the video-game take on football had a wealth of choice at their feet. It seems almost ironic that at a time when kids got their football fix from venturing into the great outdoors [...]

FIFA 13 Review

By Neil Bason | Published: October 11, 2012

When we finally come to draw the curtains on this most magnificent of console generations there can be no doubt a handful of games will remain synonymous with it. Some exploded, bursting from the shadows into the forefront of our collective consciousness, Gears of War, Mass Effect. Others assaulted our senses and dragged us into [...]

NHL 13 Review

By Neil Bason | Published: October 7, 2012

NHL 13 then, this one could be interesting. The game and the review I mean. Let’s face it, growing up as I did amidst the landscape of the industrial North of England where it rained a whole lot more than it snowed and Ice rinks were the domain of namby pamby kids that wanted to [...]

Sleeping Dogs Review

By Neil Bason | Published: September 3, 2012

Sleeping Dogs is a sprawling open world, sandbox ‘cop ‘em up’ that takes place amid the neon lit underbelly of downtown Hong Kong and places gamers into kung-fu shoes of sociopathic police officer, Wei Shen. Sleeping Dogs is also a game that plays exactly as I anticipated it would weeks before I even had the [...]

Summer of Arcade 2012: Deadlight Review

By Neil Bason | Published: August 4, 2012

If ever there was a decade that was crying out for a zombie apocalypse, end of days scenario, it was the 80′s. I lived through this dayglo, shoulder pad infested era and remember it with a shudder. The charts were infested with a brand of big toothed, cheesy pop music that seemed to have been [...]

Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor Review

By Neil Bason | Published: July 24, 2012

November 10th 2010, now there’s a date I remember well. Not fondly I’d hasten to add, but certainly well. For it was on this bitterly cold winters night that, hands stuffed deep into pockets, I patiently waited for the dawn of a new age of gaming. July 24th 2012, I’m still waiting……

The Art of Assassin’s Creed III Hitting Bookshelves This October

By Neil Bason | Published: July 3, 2012

Titan Books, a publishing company with strong ties to the video game industry and a wonderful back catalogue of top notch releases have acquired the rights to bring ‘The Art of Assassin’s Creed III’ to the masses this coming October. The book will be a celebration of the latest instalment in the AC series of [...]

Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes Review

By Neil Bason | Published: June 28, 2012

I need to make an admission. It’s an admission that I’m afraid will do nothing but enhance my current level of nerdosity in the eyes of my friends, colleagues and peers (my family already know the score.) Ahem……I’m a big fan of all things mysterious. There, I said it. UFO’s, Nessie, Yeti’s, Bigfeet (that is [...]