Ever wanted to see what spooky psychological thriller Alan Wake would look like, if reduced from its sub0hd goodness to something a little more retro? Now you can, thanks to youtube user AnttiApinaPro. While it bills itself as an 8 bit demake, it has sprites that would be difficult to do in 8 bit, and effects that would be tricky …
The winners of our FIFA 11 Facebook competition have been selected. As you may all remember from our competition post, all you needed to do to enter was “like” us on our Facebook page. The winners each get to take home a free copy of FIFA 11 on their platform of choice. Here are the winners: Matthew Nothard and Devlin …
Marco Spitoni is a talented guy. He’d have to be because he works for WETA, the New Zealand-based special effects team that did all the shiny stuff for films like The Lord of the Rings and Avatar. When he’s not busy putting together amazing effects for major films, he’s putting together neat little CGI shorts. His latest is what he …
Earlier this year Do Gaming, who is in charge of the largest online league in South Africa announced they would not be holding LAN finals this year at rAge due to tickets for the finalists not being booked in time. This proved to be a huge blow for the competitive online community. Fortunately Incredible Connection and Gaming Inc stepped in …
Last week, Nick sort of let you know that Halo: Reach generated $200 000 000 in launch day sales. Today, we’ve got more incredible Halo Reach stats for you. Developer Bungie has revealed that Halo: Reach players have collectively have played the game’s campaign for more than 1000 years. That’s a lot of pew pew pewing! Last Updated: September 20, …
Realtime World’s MMO title APB (All Points Bulletin) bombed out and in doing so caused the developer to die alongside their game. Gavin’s already written a piece on the death of Realtime Worlds; you can read it here. Â The BBC is now reporting that Epic is one of the many companies eyeing the APB intellectual property and when Epic was …
Namco-Bandai aren’t only shoehorning Capcom’s characters in to their engine to bring you a Tekken Street fighter crossover; no, they’re hard at work on another brand new Tekken – and this time it’s a sequel to what’s possibly the most fun game in the series to date; Tekken Tag. The first game was a smash hit on arcades, and became …
We very kindly received our PlayStation Move for review a little while back and you can read Nick’s opinions on that right here but after we finished our review there was one extra thing we wanted to check. So before the courier arrives to collect the Move we decided to take the hammer to it to see if we could …
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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