Do not adjust your sets. This is not a drill. It’s not a joke either, although I am laughing quite a bit. Shock! Horror! According to the PlayStation blog the highly anticipated, perpetually delayed racing sim Gran Turismo 5 has been delayed yet again. Globally. There’s no real reason stated; presumably Polyphony Digital boss Yamauchi has decided on another feature …
Spec Ops: The Line hasn’t had much attention in the media, and heck if we didn’t see it for ourselves at E3 2010, we probably wouldn’t know much about it at all. While we aren’t sure if it has some true blockbuster potential just yet, we were pleasantly surprised to see a game that looked good, played well and had …
There are some who contest that arbitrary review scores don’t really matter, and that it’s the meat of the review that counts. I’m one of those people. Apparently, I’m pretty damned wrong because it looks like they do. A lot. The game has been receiving a mixed bag of good to mediocre reviews – and it’s directly affected EA’s share …
The second game in the apparent Xbox Live Arcade and PSN Dreamcast revival has finally been given a release date. Following on the heels of the poorly ported and ill-received Sonic Adventure, classic frantic arcade and Dreamcast…taxi simulator Crazy Taxi will be released on the download services on November 24. The game will feature updated, 720p graphics and presented in …
Yesterday Karl reported that Raven Software had been hit with multiple layoffs, which whittled their staff down by forty people and relegated the company to producing DLC. Raven was acquired by Activision in the late nineties. It seems Activision’s march of doom is set to continue as the layoffs have now struck Robomodo, the developers behind the current peripheral-based Tony …
In what’s likely to be a blow against trolls and overzealous console fanboys, the NPD – who has routinely supplied monthly console hardware sales figures – have announced that they will no longer be doing so. How in the hell are fanboys supposed to anonymously point digital fingers and laugh over the internet, misguidedly pointing out that “Hurr durr …
According to the rumour cabinet tucked away in the back of All about the games’ offices, Rockstar’s San Diego branch is busy with a project that’ll knock people’s socks off. They’re the company behind this year’s break-out hit, Read Dead Redemption – and are the folks who built the impressive RAGE engine that’s powered just about every Rockstar game this …
The sequel to Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will be out on October 29 and the demo is now available to play, so we downloaded it to give you a quick hands-on impression, Back in 2008 we did a double review feature of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and the two reviews awarded the game an 8/10 and an 8.5/10. …
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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