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, …

Woohoo! There’s nothing like a bit of smack-talk to get your day going! Gran Turismo 5 hit shelves yesterday after years of waiting and anticipation. The game has been hyped and advertised to hell and back, which of course leaves competitors in the unenviable position of having to steal some attention back again. Electronic Arts and Codemasters have both recently made …

GT5 is out – and while there’s been some criticism, it’s a superlative racing game and there’s no doubt it’s a hit with car enthusiasts. Want some free stuff for the game? Check out the game’s official Facebook app, here. Last Updated: November 25, 2010