In Monday’s ION post I linked to a story on Kotaku that was based on a screenshot of the underside of a car from Gran Turismo 5. The screenshot (after the jump) showed the logo for AUTOArt on the bottom centre of the car’s undercarriage. AUTOArt is a company that makes highly detailed die-cast models of cars. They’ve also made …

Backup singer (yes, you can point and laugh) for Cypress Hill, Michael “Shagg” Washington has taken it upon himself to sue Rockstar and their publisher, Take 2. They’re no strangers to lawsuits, so what’ve done now? Nothing. It’s for something they did way back in 2004; release Grand Theft Auto : San Andreas. Shagg is suing the them because he …

You know you’ve reached the zenith of online popularity and fame when you are immortalised in a game. It just happened to that Red Shirt Guy who corrected Blizzard on their own World of Warcraft law; he has now, apparently, asked them to remove his immortalising dwarf representation (called Wildhammer Fact Checker) because it didn’t fit with WoW law. What …

For some, the end of year holidays as well as Christmas, Hanukkah and the feelings of love and goodwill to all mankind are the things on most peoples minds. Others like Geoff would rather stick his head in a blender or go on a Tequila diet until its all over. There is however, a third type, the one that just …

Since release, Kinect’s had quite an incredible uptake amongst tech hobbyists, not just gamers. There’s some rather impressive hardware in Kinect, even though that hardware’s hardly being used for compelling gaming at the moment. That may change though, because the Robot Locomotion Group and Learning Intelligent Systems teams at MIT have demonstrated that Kinect is far more capable than we …

This week, 5FM’s Simon Dingle invited Lazygamer.net to swing down to the 5FM studios to join him on his weekly tech show, (tech)5. We will be going live on air at around 2PM (our intel suggest that it will be more around the 2:20PM mark or so) to hit the airwaves up with what we think are the Top 5 …

Apparently the founder of People Can Fly, Adrian Chmielarz, is upset that people are writing off Bulletstorm as a mindless shooter without even giving the game a proper go. According to Adrian 98% of people who try the game change their mind and become huge fans of the overtop gameplay, violence and fun. Last Updated: December 9, 2010

The Dark Knight steadily makes his way through the shadows, persevering and moving so that one day, he may grace our consoles with Arkham City. Boy, oh boy I am excited for this game, you have no idea. A teaser trailer was released today that gives us a glimpse of what we can expect in Batman: AC. It’s all CG …