Crytek boss Cevat Yerli reckons that PC’s are already a generation ahead of consoles, and that developers’ focus on consoles is holding back advancements in PC gaming technology. Of course these sort of comments happen towards the end of each generation of consoles, and it’s usually the time when platform holders start showing off their future wares. This time it’s …
Microsoft has announced that starting from today (sometime) they are upgrading all Xbox Live silvers (standard) to gold members so that you too can go online and pwn at Black Ops. Or listen to the incredibly frustrating American Halo Reach players telling you what they did to your mother last night in their highly annoying screechy 12 year old voice. …
Yesterday I voiced my disgust over the fact that yet another AAA title was struggling to cope with the day one load on their online servers and lamented the fact that they are screwing up something that really isn’t that complicated. Kazunori Yamauchi has stated in an interview with Edge magazine that the online service is currently in a critical …
Some people love Billy Bob Thornton the actor, screenwriter, director, rock… star? But some people think he’s a bit of a douche – probably because he used to be married to Angelina Jolie. What? You don’t think he’s a douche? You might after this. He was recently interviewed by The Telegraph during which he went on a bit of a …
According to BTGame’s Twitterfeed, if you buy the soon-to-be-released world of Warcraft expansion from them, they’ll throw in 5Gb’s of ADSL bandwidth per month for 3 months. Even if that’ll mostly go towards massive patches, at R265 it’s a sweet deal. Last Updated: November 25, 2010
For a so-called “core gamer†who regularly makes fun of motion-controlled gaming, I’ve certainly gotten caught up in it. I have a Wii (with motion plus!), Playstation Move and I’ve recently acquired Microsoft’s Kinect. While I must admit that I’ve been having quite a bit of fun with Kinect – having a family and all – the one motion-controller that …
It was only a few months ago that Bobby Kotick was complaining that even though over 50% of Xbox Live traffic belongs to Activision titles they don’t see any of that revenue being paid to Microsoft. Well now it appears that they have wangled a deal with Microsoft and they are now getting a slice (a modest amount, apparently) of …
Epic has updated their massively popular Unreal Development Kit and with it they’ve included some videos of what the beefed up UDK is capable of.There’s a host of updates, changes additions and improvements that’ll mean diddly squat to you unless you’re a developer, in which case you can read the list of changes and download the UDK beta here. If, …
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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