Remember the Wii Vitality Sensor? It was revealed to the public at E3 2009 and elicited a resounding “What?” from most people. Since then, the peripheral has been on the down-low, but Siliconera has dug up some information on a new Nintendo patent. The patent covers the details of a game that would use the Vitality Sensor to monitor a …

The Wii’s motion-controlled gaming (and to a lesser extent since the release of Playstation Move, the PS3) has afforded profiteering purveyors of perplexingly pointless plastic periphery the prospect of peddlling their preposterous products.  If you thought Microsoft’s Kinect – which is free from controllers of any sort – would be spared all manner of unnecessary accessory – you’d be wrong. …

It’s weird how stuff like this happens: a friend of mine and I were moaning about how long the BioShock 2 DLC was taking to arrive on the PC; literally the day after our whinging, this news drops. The Protector Trials and Minerva’s Den hit the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 a while ago – Geoff liked Minerva’s Den and …

It’s no secret that a new Xbox 360 dashboard is on it’s way and with Microsoft now stating what exactly the new dashboard upgrades I thought it would be a good time to post up my experience with it so far. Before doing that though I read through the terms and conditions of being part of the dashboard beta and …

A few years after the release of the Playstation 3 exclusive Heavenly Sword, Ninja Theory return with a brand new multi-platform adventure title based in a post-apocalyptic setting. Enslaved is an adventure based loosely on the famous Chinese legend Journey to the West and follows a story co-written by English novelist and screenplay writer, Alex Garland (The Beach novel, 28 …

The big news last week was that Gears of War 3 will be launched with dedicated servers for multiplayer to, hopefully, finally put an end to the infamous host shotgun and alleviate the lag that many of us have experienced. But in an interesting update Epic games have confirmed this morning that Gears of War 2 has actually been running …

Great news has turned up thanks to the Hollywood Reporter. It looks like new life has been breathed into the Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune film project. Hollywood writer and director David O. Russell, (Three Kings) who previously passed up the project has now signed on to write and direct the Columbia Pictures production of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. So, who should play …

Cliff Bleszinski has confirmed to CVG that Gears of War 3 will not include any theatre mode of the ability to upload in game screenshots to the Internet for sharing. That in itself doesn’t bother me at all as when I got Gears of War 2 I thought it would be awesome being able to take some screenshots for the …