Over the past few years, we’ve moved away from the stereotype of the gamer as a pasty, socially awkward, sun-fearing basement dweller – bereft of charm, hairbrushes and deodorant. Not the sort of bait conducive to snagging a member of the opposite – or same, if that’s your thing – sex. Gamers these days are mostly seen as regular people, …
The world is full of people who’re willing to sidestep legal boundaries in an effort to get stuff for nothing. The internet is host to many of them. Crafty phishers are using tried and tested textbook methods of stealing other people’s battle.net accounts. The ignoble curs have been sending authentic-looking emails promising a StarCraft II CD-key. In the eternal words …
Nick posted a link to a story yesterday in his ION round up about the Kinect using less than 1% of the CPU power of the Xbox 360 for it’s calculations which was interesting but what I found more interesting through that link was something that the Ubisoft Kinect guru, Frederic Blais, had to say. Last Updated: August 4, 2010
If you are more than just a simple gamer, and someone who likes to keep one eye on the industry then this video is a must-see. The debut episode of Game Theory has some really big industry names, from Will Wright (Sims) and Peter Molyneux (Fable) to Cliff Bleszinski (Gears of War), Clint Hocking (Farcry 2) and more talking about …
If you were looking forward to watching a Hollywood blockbuster movie adaptation of Uncharted, then it looks like you are out of luck, for a while anyways. Anyone who hoped that they would be seeing a 2011 release of the Uncharted movie may as well go back to eating popcorn whilst watching the cutscenes. Sony had previously said that they …
EA has announced during an investors conference call that it will be pushing back Crysis 2’s release from Spring this year, which is in the next month or so, to it’s fiscal Q4 of 2011. Which in normal speak apparently means early next year. Last Updated: August 4, 2010
Don’t you hate it when the headline pretty much gives away the entire story and I have to sit here rambling for about 100 words to justify my salary? Well this is another one of those stories, Plants vs Zombies has been confirmed to be landing on the UK XBLA marketplace on the 8th of September which means that we …
I’m angry about the news that NBA Jam is only coming to HD consoles in a gimped version, and only if you buy that other NBA game which I’m not even gonna mention because I am angry with it. Here’s the news we didn’t post because we were laughing at people scratching their heads trying to figure out which footage …
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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