Alright, settle down everyone. This “ultimate driving simulator†pissing contest is starting to get a little ridiculous now. Last week we had EA Senior VP Patrick Soderlund and Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens declaring open-season on Polyphony’s Gran Turismo 5. Now, it seems as if boss-man Soderlund has spurred on one of his employees over at the Need For Speed Shift …
The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 VIP Map Pack 7 *breathe* is finally out today. The map pack is available for free to anyone who registered their VIP code on consoles and just plain free for anyone playing it on PC. The pack is made of 4 new multiplayer maps, of which two are reworked versions of the two biggest fan …
GT5 is out, and is in the strange position of being both incredibly praised, and severely lambasted. Some of the reasons for complaint may be removed though! Speaking to fans utilising the magic of Twitter, Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi detailed some of the new features and changes that may make their way in to the racing game simulator. …
Life is full of disappointments – those times when things just don’t turn out as you expect. Sometimes it’s something big; a loved one letting you down, a business deal falling through, your offspring wants to pursue a career in performance art, your genitals haven’t gotten any bigger since you turned 7 (Just me?). More regular though are the more …
Uber Entertainment’s uber awesome team-based third-person shooter is getting a batch of free DLC on 01 December – hey wait, that’s today! Entitled Spunky Cola Special, the DLC adds two new arenas: the Spunky Cola Crossfire arena and the Survivitol Blitz arean. There are also new challenges, new protags and an expanded levelling system for those who have hit level …
Impatient, recumbent gamers too lethargic to get up off the couch, get in the car and drive aaaaallllll the way to their nearest gaming retailer might be predisposed to the idea of purchasing Games on Demand from the Xbox Live Marketplace; digital versions of disc-based games. Barring the cost and time to download, they seem like a pretty good idea …
Earlier this week the GT5 overlord, Kazunori Yamauchi, announced that the damage in GT5 was a sliding scale that would unlock and be more effective as you progressed through the levels. The world jumped on this as proof that some global sites like IGN and local sites like GameState were wrong about the damage limitations in their reviews and much …
The Noble Map Pack for Halo Reach is now available to download from the Xbox Live Marketplace. If you didn’t already know what it is, the Halo Reach Noble Map Pack adds three brand new maps to the games multiplayer, meaning that you can now tea-bag your buddies in all new locations. Almost everyone is currently playing that TROUT: Dark …
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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