Steve Hogarty

Steve Hogarty

London, GB
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Games journalist

Writer man for magazines about stuff, mostly about games. Okay only about games

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Alien: Isolation review

Alien: Isolation is a first person stealth horror game in which you, a human full of the blood and guts you require to survive, must hide from and evade an eight foot tall alien creature who wishes to poke a hole in you such that all of your blood and guts spill out on to the floor.

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How much of Microsoft's $2.5 billion will Notch actually receive?

Microsoft have just bought Minecraft developers Mojang for the brain-staggering sum of $2.5 billion, a number so large that if it were written out in full it would take up at least a couple of inches on a page.

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23 amazing details you didn't notice in the Grand Theft Auto V box art

The Grand Theft Auto V box art has just been revealed, which is Big Videogames News, the sort that causes all of the videogames news websites to hoist up their skirts and run around in a sort of "news musth", butting their news antlers together in competition for the highest Google ranking.

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'There are downsides to being this good': Why gamers hate me for being brilliant at games

Steve Hogarty feels like he's the only person on the planet who can relate to the sort of soul-crushing discrimination poor Samantha Brick faces on a daily basis. While her agonising physical beauty manifests itself as a living femme-hell, Steve's unusual gift for gaming has made him a pariah in his community. Here, Steve talks exclusively to CVG about how he's despised by peers for his superior gaming abilities...

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The five best Half-Life movie scripts discovered in the bins behind JJ Abrams' house

This is a true story: last night while searching through JJ Abrams' bins for some of his discarded film scripts, I came across some of JJ Abrams' discarded film scripts.

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Virtual Peter Sissons trapped inside a maze

n 1986 engineers at Sinclair generated a fully three-dimensional, artificially intelligent clone of Peter Sissons, which activists at the time described as "a sentient program, one that it could be argued has its own thoughts and feelings, with deeply troubling philosophical and spiritual ramifications for the entire human race. What happens next may be the measure of our species. Have we become God? Or something worse?"

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My Big Day Out at the Pokémon National Championships

Crying children, broken dreams and, for some, the sweet taste of victory: the Pokémon National Championships are serious business....

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Hands on with Splinter Cell: Blacklist

Heeyyyy guuuyyysss, there’s a problem with my Splinter Cell preview, in that I became extremely nauseous while playing it and had to stop to go throw up. That’s not a comment on the quality of the game, I'm simply saying that my body decided to stop functioning normally during the...

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Space Station 13: a multiplayer space station simulator about monkeys, insane AI, cultists and paperwork

I don't know where to begin. Maybe here: there's a bus-sized, chitinous space-demon tearing our space station apart, oxygen is being haemorrhaged through gaping holes on either side of the blood-drenched corridor in which I stand alone.

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Which edition of Watch Dogs is right for you?

As surely as a watched dog never boils, a new release from Ubisoft will inevitably be split into myriad editions — or a myriad of editions, if you like to freestyle the English language — each one containing just a tiny fraction of the entire game. Watch_Dogs will arrive on...

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Nintendo's running a bit low on new Pokémon ideas

Have we run out of animals to base new Pokémon on? The existence of a sentient set of flying keys in the latest game suggests to Steve Hogarty that yes, yes we have

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I've found the script for today's new Xbox reveal

Steve Ballmer staggers on stage to the sound of screaming pigs. He is skeletal and arachnid. His naked pink abdomen is scored with faces of colleagues frozen in agony while three of his eight pillar-thick legs span the stage, towering over Don Mattrick.

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Some things Battlefield 4 has taught me about war

In Battlefield 4 they call helicopters ‘helos’. Not ‘helo’ like you might say “oh hello, here comes a helicopter”, but like ‘heelo’, as if it were short for ‘heelocopter’. The more I think about it, the more that word makes sense, because if soldiers said “hello” every time a helicopter appeared, other soldiers might think they were just being friendly and start waving and running towards one another.

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I have inserted myself into these ten new Grand Theft Auto V screenshots — can you spot me?

Rockstar have just released ten new GTA V screenshots, which reminds us of the time they released three GTA V screenshots, that other time they released five GTA V screenshots, the occasion on which they released four GTA V screenshots, and of course who can forget the time they released...

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Ubisoft showed off fifteen games in Paris yesterday. Here is every single one of them

Ubisoft just done a load of games in Paris. Fifteen whole games, to be exact: some of them new, some of them old, but all of them in a big white event space on top of a French hotel.