The last Mortal Kombat, pitting the series’ stalwarts against characters from DC comic’s stable was T-rated – meaning the game was devoid of the gratuitous, over-the-top violence the series is known for. Mortal Kombat 9 – due next year – won’t be quite as tame. "We’re going to be as M-rated as we’ve ever been," said series co-creator Ed Boon. …

It’s Xbox Live Deal of the Week time again, and this time, the wares on offer are quite tempting. After Burner Climax, in particular is a particularly tasty treat for its reduced to 400 MSP price – and you’d have to be pretty averse to arcade flight sims to pass it up at that price. Megaman 10 – with its …

The diminutive Activision executive that everybody loves to hate has told the financial times that he’s frustrated by the Xbox Live model – which sees Microsoft benefitting from 3rd party online content more than the creators of said content. Because y’know…he just doesn’t make enough money. To illustrate his point, he cited the success of Modern Warfare 2’s Stimulus Pack …

No don’t panic it’s not Thursday already it’s just that last week Thursday I was packing bags and preparing for yet another long flight and completely missed the latest Zero Punctuation. And since today the news so far has been pretty slow it is with great relief that I found something to put up to cover my quota for the …

The most interesting news coming out of May’s NPD figures is the amazingly low sales for some big name titles like Alan Wake, Blur and Prince of Persia. Now we personally didn’t rate Prince of Persia to be an amazing game with a score of 8/10 but Blur received a 8.9 and Alan Wake was one of the better games …

The Kinect marketing material is currently being sent out to the required advertising agencies and stores and as such we are starting to hear a little bit more about what we can expect from Kinect. We have already seen the Kinect powered games will have a purple wave added onto the end of the Xbox 360 green waves but there …

When the Xbox 360 and Wii were announced we were in the midst of a white design phase with every electronic device worth it’s salt being available in white and I distinctly recall seeing some white HD TV’s which was something that thankfully never took off. However the love of white has been dropping over recent years and now Nintendo …

Sucker Punch, the developers of PS3 exclusive Infamous – and its recently announced sequel – have thanked Uncharted 2 devs Naughty Dog for the help and inspiration they received in the design and production of their latest super-hero gig. “Our visit to Naughty Dog really showed us some things where they just have better approaches to some problems and we’ve …