I’ve always maintained that when it comes to gaming scenes in a country, nobody has it as bad as Australia. Well, maybe ze Germans also have it bad, but the Australian government seems to get their panties in a bunch a lot more often than those from the land of pretzels and lederhosen. When I hear South Africans moaning about …
MIT has always been that geek dreamland to me where you appear to be allowed to pretty much do whatever you want as long as it’s new and involves IT somehow. The latest invention from their hallowed halls is that 4 current students used a hacked Kinect and javascript to be able to browse the web without the cumbersome mouse …
Today will mark the biggest change to World of Warcraft’s landscape since the game originally launched. The game’s third expansion focuses on the transformation of Azeroth through the cataclysmic events resulting from evil dragon Deathwing the Destroyer’s return. It’ll bring with it around 3500 new quests, two new races, more classes, stats and other things MMO nuts go crazy for. …
Assassin’s Creed 3 is coming; everyone knows that. The franchise is Ubisoft’s biggest, there have always been plans for a trilogy and Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is not the final part of that trilogy. We all know how sequels work: the next game in a series will (well, it should) contain new gameplay features and mechanics. Users over on NeoGAF have …
The video below is apparently showing the storefront of a Verizon store in Chicago where they currently have an Android powered motion controlled game going. The game appears to consist entirely of blocking incoming snowballs and is completely motion controlled, basically it looks just like Kinect. If there is any company that can match the investment needed to launch a …
I’ve been a lifelong Michael Jackson fan so when the opportunity arose to review the new Wii dancing title I couldn’t pass it up. The family has been playing Just Dance on the Wii for the past couple of months and I was interested to see how this dancing title matched up against the current king. In truth there are …
According to the latest sales figures by Microsoft the Kinect has now become the fastest adopted consumer electronics device ever, ousting the recent heir to the throne, the iPad. The iPad took 2 months to sell 2 million iPads, at a minimum price of $500, and has now settled down to selling around 4.5 million every quarter. Last Updated: December …
You may have noticed on Friday that I posted up a teaser image for the new title that Activision is going to announce at the VGA’s later this week with the catch phrase ‘Murder your Maker’. Well now thanks to the magic of YouTube and RampageZA’s comment we can pretty much confirm that the new title will in fact be …
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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