So the international Reach embargo has been lifted and the scores are flooding in. Unfortunately being down south we don’t seem to have been included in this early review batch which is annoying but we’re working on remedying this for any future major launches. Or at least whining incessantly about it to the publishers, either way we are being heard. …
Executives do a lot of gushing about their newest products. Sometimes, they get extra gushy at launch events and say things that they probably shouldn’t have. Exhibit A: Stephen McGill, who is the head of Xbox UK. Recently he was asked by Eurogamer how he thought the newest Halo game would do against Treyarch’s up-coming entry into the Call of …
Halo: Reach comes out tomorrow and fan boys and girls alike are salivating at the thought of the 14th. Never before has a Halo game received such a marketing push from ads, trailers, developer interviews and even links to South African Apartheid history. Microsoft owns the Halo franchise, but with developers Bungie signing an independent publishing agreement with Activision this …
The team behind recent episodic adventure games like Tales of Monkey Island and Sam & Max have released their Adventure Bundle for 2010. If you head on over to Telltale’s website you can score yourself roughly R900 worth of games ($120) for just R150 (or $19.95). The bundle includes The Whispered World, The King’s Quest Collection (which has the first …
Another week has flown by, and it’s been a pretty interesting one with our review of the Playstation Move finally taking a look at what the new tech from Sony has to offer. Have a great weekend, may the gaming force be with you. Here’s the weekly round-up as well as the news we didn’t post because my arm is …
Maybe you’ve heard of this game, maybe you haven’t. It’s an MMO shooter from Red 5 Studio, which is headed by Mark Kern. You know Mark! Mark is the former team lead for World of Warcraft, so it’s safe to say he knows his way around an MMO. Firefall is set to explode the internet in late 2011, but the …
The first Resident Evil flick wasn’t terrible. It was a fun popcorn movie that, like most videogame-to-film adaptations deviated far enough from its source material to be up for re-naming. The sequels? Pretty terrible. Still, they’ve made a whole lot of money. US$378 million worldwide so far. If they’ve almost nothing to do with Resident Evil and are now mostly …
Are people over the Wii and its motion-controlled gaming? Is that fad coming to an end? Well, it possibly would have been, had Microsoft and Sony not been so keen to introduce their own waggle via Kinect and Move respectively. As evidenced by the latest NPD figures the once insurmountable Wii seems to be in a steady decline – while …
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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