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. …
Nick has been trying for months to get everyone to call Call of Duty Black Ops Blops, thankfully this has never really taken off and now the developers have for the first time given the title an official short name, COD B. It’s not great but anything’s better than Blops so I’ll take it. Check below for a video of …
Here’s the first of what will hopefully be many character introduction trailers for the upcoming Mortal Kombat reboot. This one introduces Mileena, although she probably needs no introduction to many fans of the series. For those who don’t know who Mileena is, she’s the fighter who wears purple, is overtly sexy and has teeth big enough to devour a bull …
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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