Sticky-fingered pirates who download Michael Jackson: The Experience for their Nintendo’s DS’ are in for an unpleasant surprise. Ubisoft has included what has to be one of the coolest, noisiest anti-piracy measures I’ve ever come across. Firstly, the prompts that tell you what you’re supposed to do are completely missing – making the game pretty much impossible to play. That’s …

Hey, don’t look at me like that, it’s Friday remember? You guys have probably had your fair share of Gran Turismo 5 articles and debates by now, but today’s debate is one worth discussing. Gran Turismo 5 has now been out for over a week and it’s no mystery that the game has its fair share of problems. The game …

When thinking back to my week with Gran Turismo 5, I can’t help but think of the classic rock song from Golden Earring titled Radar Love. The song kicks off with the lyrics, “I’ve been driving all night my hands wet on the wheel” which then leads into the rest of the first verse, and its final line iconic line …

While the New York Times isn’t the pre-eminent gaming media outlet that we generally follow it is highly respected and for the casual gamer this latest article will be a big deal. According to Seth Schiesel at the NYT there really isn’t much reason to buy a Nintendo Wii anymore and while Sony are offering a compelling alternative with the …

Strauss Zelnick, President of Take Two has said that the publisher won’t be rushing out annual releases of its big name titles the way other publishers *coughEAandActivisioncough* do. Breathe a sight of relief, because you won’t be seeing a new Grand theft Auto or Red Dead Redemption every year, the way you do with titles like Call of Duty, Guitar …

Bioware’s MMORPG set in the Star Wars galaxy, The Old Republic, has been given a release window. This is the first official guesstimate from Electronic Arts, who has taken over as the publisher alongside Lucasarts. According to them, we can expect to Force choke people across the galaxy in EA’s  financial year 2012. Don’t panic; that isn’t as far off …

You’d expect, with Xbox Live being such a great service, and in fact the cornerstone of the Xbox experience, that just about everybody hooked up to it would cough up the annual $60 fee to get its premium features…like online multiplayer. But no, that’s not the case. Of the 25 million subscribers, only about half pay for the privilege of …

While the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series brought skateboarding games to the forefront, they’ve been usurped by EA’s Skate, which places a greater emphasis on realism and tight, intuitive controls. Skate has undoubtedly become the benchmark against which other skating games are measured. Fans of the series expecting a fourth game might be in for an unpleasant surprise though. EA …