At the recent SIGGRAPH 2010 – Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques – one of LucasArts’ coders, Dmitry Andreev, who’s currently working on the new Force Unleashed showcased an interesting technology he and his team devised. They’ve come up with a software frame-rate upscaler – that makes games look and feel like they’re running at 60fps, and uses …
Some people are mighty upset that Dragon age 2, the sequel to Bioware’s Baldur’s Gate successor will only let you play as a human, eschewing much of the character customisation of its forebear, which allowed the payer to choose from three distinct races – Human, Elf and Dwarf. BioWare boss Ray Muzyka says it’s nothing to be worried about though, …
Last week we posted up some creepy gaming fan art and to start this week of with a bang we have some sexy or creepy Metroid fan art depending on your personal preference I guess. Here are my favourite ones and then click through to TheKartel below to see the rest. Last Updated: August 30, 2010
A couple of years ago all the news posts were about how close to realism the GT5 video’s were. Well there is a new pretender to the crown in the shape of Codemasters F1 2010 which is looking incredible. I watched Nick have some hands on time with this at E3 and can attest to it looking amazing, the rain …
Okay class let’s take a pop quiz. Of all the evils that gaming contains how many of you would ever have guessed that a game would be banned because it advertised an energy drink? Well this has just happened in Denmark of all places, a country which is happy to accept it’s citizens virtually chainsawing people in half, running amok …
Nothing has been officially confirmed yet but the grand master of Gran Turismo 5, Kazunori Yamauchi, has responded to a tweet question around the size of the GT5 install with quite a shocking number. According to Kaz we are going to need 10GB of HDD space if we want a smooth experience with GT5 which is no problem for the …
So it finally happened, the change over to Lazygamer.net has started and so far it has gone incredibly well… which is worrying as things like this should never go without a hitch. You may have noticed already that the Lazygamer.co.za URL that you typed in or click on has magically become a Lazygamer.net one? The reason for the change is …
Rockstar has just announced that it’s next DLC for Red Dead Redemption, Liars and Cheats, will be released on the 21st of September for $15.95 on PSN or 800 MS points on the Xbox 360. All the important details can be found below but I am most excited about multiplayer horse races and 7 new gang hideouts in free roam …
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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