Final Fantasy XIII was in development for years but you won’t have to wait that long for its sequel, which is imaginatively named Final Fantasy XIII-2. The direct sequel to Square Enix’s 2010 release will be out this year. Motomu Toriyama, who directed FFXIII, will be directing XIII-2 as well. A premier trailer for the game was shown to a …
Who is Robert Nay? He’s a 14 year-old boy who lives in USA. He’s also just programmed his first game, which toppled Angry Birds from the No. 1 spot on the App Store’s free app chart. His game is a physics-based puzzler called Bubble Ball. The game has been downloaded more than two million times since he put it onto …
Remember a while ago when Gabe and Valve were all up in Sony’s face saying that the PS3 sucked and that they loathed porting games onto it? It sparked the billionth PS3 vs Xbox 360 fanboy flamewar and the only people laughing at the whole thing were the PC gamers. About a year later, Gabe was eating humble pie that …
Game Informer has a two page article on some of the tech underneath Skyrim’s hood. It’s a good read, but for the impatient amongst you, here are the best bits. Previous Bethesda games like Oblivion and Fallout 3 were excellent titles that many people were able to get completely immersed in. However, there were limitations, which meant that that immersion …
The Test Drive series is all about the lifestyle and experience of owning and driving the most awesome cars on the planet. For Test Drive Unlimited 2 the developers rebuilt the racing engine from scratch to give you the perfect balance between a racing simulator and an arcade title, I’ve never been the biggest racing fan on the planet but …
It’s no big secret that the Kinect isn’t the first motion controlled gaming device to hit the market but after seeing this trailer for the Sega Activator I just had to post it. Mainly because I clearly remember living in these times and thinking that everyone looked stupid on TV, fast forward a couple of years and my beliefs have …
This is good news for anyone who cares about the health of the gaming industry in general. It seems that even though Sony has lost the master keys to it’s PS3 it may still be able to catch people running custom software (pirated copies of titles) on their machines. The only problem is that Sony themselves may not know exactly …
Neither has the UK tax payer, but they’ve still forked out over £2.8 million for it since it launched in November 2009. Wait, what? Tax payers funding an MMO? Yep, that’s because it was the brain-child of the UK Department of Transport. The MMO was designed to get kids into thinking about road safety. Sadly, the MMO is practically dead. …
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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