Simon Bramble
Simon was once a freelance games journalist with bylines at publications including GamesRadar. He is now a content designer at DWP Digital - aka the Department for Work and Pensions.
Latest articles by Simon Bramble
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Hotline Miami’s cleverest surprise is that it’s not a shooter - it’s a puzzle game
By Simon Bramble published
Retrospective Yes, really.
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Taking an uncomfortable, thought-provoking journey into the heart of darkness with Spec Ops: The Line
By Simon Bramble published
Retrospective
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Quantum
By Simon Bramble published
Tower offense with a couple of intriguing twists, we’re hoping this quantum theory jumps to blazing reality
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Samurai Shodown Anthology review
By Simon Bramble published
A slew of classic SNK fighters crammed into one UMD
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The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena review
By Simon Bramble published
This time around expect to be pleasantly surprised
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SuperCar Challenge - hands-on
By Simon Bramble published
This time around there are over 40 supercars to play with
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Stormrise - hands-on
By Simon Bramble published
Another real-time strategy title gives a go at making it work on consoles
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Prototype
By Simon Bramble published
A little bit of this and a lot of that, it might turn out to be more than the sum of its parts
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Savage Moon review
By Simon Bramble published
This is one tower-defense game that really gets under the skin
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Heroes over Europe
By Simon Bramble published
Following on from Heroes of the Pacific, can this WWII fighter hit the heights or will it drop from the sky?
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Soldner-X: Himmelssturmer review
By Simon Bramble published
The grand-sounding title means "Mercenary-X set to take on the impossible"
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Guitar Hero Metallica
By Simon Bramble published
The biggest metal band in the world engulfs Guitar Hero
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Aliens: Colonial Marines
By Simon Bramble published
The daddy of the space marine genre will be stalking you in-game soon
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Wheelman – hands-on
By Simon Bramble published
Milo Burik... that name sounds familiar. Oh hang on. No. it can’t be! Vin Diesel’s back!
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Crash Commando - PS3 Network review
By Simon Bramble published
What a weird combination of elements
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SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 review
By Simon Bramble published
Retro collection comes out fighting
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Mercenaries 2: World in Flames review
By Simon Bramble published
Will you want to join the revolution?
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Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli review
By Simon Bramble published
For all its efforts to simulate every aspect of throwing a Ferrari around a track, it seems that a few thrills and some sense of danger has gone.
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