Earlier this week Epic Games, People Can Fly and Electronic Arts released a “game” called Duty Calls. It was a marketing stunt to promote the upcoming and over-the-top FPS game Bulletstorm, which promises to put the fun back into the shooter genre. The Duty Calls parody (which Nick posted about here) completely rips the COD franchise a new one and …

We’re at the point in current gen console’s lifetime where we’d typically start seeing announcements of new hardware, the impending “next-generation.” things are different this gen though; with the insurmountable costs of developing AAA games for today’s hardware, coupled with the shoddy economics and flagging sales of late, the chances of the next-gen rolling around in the very near future …

Have you seen anything about Swarm? The upcoming downloadable game where you control a swarm of blue squishy things and you need to safely navigate them through possibly the most dangerous place on the planet? No? You have to watch this, this game is looking absolutely fantastic and a whole heap of fun and I for one cannot wait to …

According to DICE and EA, they were supposed to tease you with a brand new trailer showing you what to expect in Battlefield 3. Well, it’s been leaked online a little early. I’ve generally preferred Bad Company to the main, multiplayer-centric franchise, but I’m intrigued. It sports the same sort of visual ambience as Bad Company 2, only with an …

I received a tip this morning from a guy, Christopher Smith, who has created his own Machinima series and is virtually at the point of being able to be released on DVD which is an incredible feat all of it’s own. It’s been done in a graphic novel style which adds to it’s charm and makes it very easy to …

I’ll pretty much jump at any reason to post more about our local game developers QCF and their stellar title, Desktop Dungeons, so when I heard they had ported their (still in development) title to a Mac it was time for at least 1 quarter of the office to celebrate. While I am perfectly happy with my intel powered Windows …

Unfortunately since we are still seen as a small country on the bottom of the planet we weren’t invited to the Killzone 3 review events, but things are changing since we made it to the Black Ops one and we’re going to keep using that to push the guys to sort it out. But enough whining, lets look at what …

Ashley is a gamer, just like any other gamer. Like most, she’s loving the hell out of Dead Space 2. It turns out, however, that her dog is not. In fact, during her first playthrough of the game her dog knocked over her Xbox 360, which utterly destroyed her copy of Dead Space 2 in the process. Bummer. She then …