George Hotz and his band of merry hacker douche-bags unlocked the PlayStation 3. That’s old news and since then Sony has been granted the right to issue Hotz with a restraining order. The guy is potentially in a lot of trouble. The thing is, he is not the only one involved in this whole debacle. Sony is now planning on …
Those who’ve played any of Bethesda’s games running on Gamebryo would know that one of the engine’s biggest shortcomings would be its inability to correctly render human faces. People sort of look like people; if those people were wearing ghastly rubber masks of themselves. Fallout 3 and New Vegas had marginally better looking people, but only just. The new engine …
Visceral and EA’s survival horror sequel Dead Space 2 has been garnering near universal praise, even getting an exceptionally high 9.4 from our own Nick. One gamer who was less than impressed with the title, primarily because of its lack of input customisation is Gareth Garratt, who’d like to be able to map walking forward to his mouse so he …
I’ve never been to taken with the weird Japanese pop culture and you would never have found me watching some Japanese anime in Japanese to experience the true nature or whatever the reason is that people use. But for some reason I am completely taken in with these trailers for the upcoming game, of sorts, Catherine. It’s just so bizarrely …
I am a massive Star Wars geek – colossal some might say. So when my most anticipated game of 2011 gets likened to the root cause of my geekdom, I get excited; possibly nerdgasm excited. The most recent edition of OXM magazine has a 16 page spread on Bethesda’s fifth Elder Scrolls game. As per usual, Todd Howard is interviewed …
Superheroes… everybody loves ’em. Well, except Supervillains but in a game like DC Universe Online you get to be whichever you like. Sony Online Entertainment unleashed DC Universe Online onto the world with the promise of finally being able to live out your fantasy of being a Superhero/villain in one of the worlds most beloved fictional universes. We put some …
Are you getting Test Drive Unlimited 2? Are you getting it from BT Games? If you answered yes to both these questions then don’t forget to enter our / their pre-order competition to stand in line to get the full price of the game credited back to your account and also to win a model replica of an awesome car. …
Gameloft are no strangers to claims of plagiarism and over the last while have ripped pretty much every AAA title that you can think of into mobile format. However in this latest step I do think that they may have bitten off more than they can chew. Their latest title called Starfront: Collision is a 4 player iPhone RTS title …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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