I was utterly underwhelmed by GT5 at E3 this year but apparently I am the only one with Nick thinking it was god’s gift to racing simulators and the rest of the Internet oozing compliments over the realism in the game. The one thing that was pretty universal however was that the damage modelling was poor and in need of …

It’s a new(ish) month! that means there’s a whole bunch of new games being released – and this month there are some biggies. The most anticipated of this month’s releases is no doubt StarCraft II : Wings of Liberty, the sequel to the world’s most popular RTS – and is expected to have gamers Zerg-rushing retail stores. StarCraft II will …

Crackdown 2 is one of my most anticipated games and while the demo is sitting on my Xbox 360 right now waiting to be played I am half way across the planet from it so I can’t give it a go. There is some good news though with Gamer Magazine releasing the first review score for Crackdown 2 and they …

Vanquish was one of the surprise hits of E3 2010 and was routinely referred to as Gears of War with robots and lasers. Personally I only had about 2 minutes with the game and while it was fun I found it to be a little repetitive. But if you are one of the people who loves all games created in …

Modnation Racers was punted off as Sony’s 2010 poster child for their Play. Create. Share. brand, which encourages gamers to not only just play games of this sort, but get more creatively involved with their online communities. It’s a no brainer that kart racing games do well (just ask that other Italian plumber guy) and with games like Little Big …

Gamespy in conjunction with Rockstar has put together an infographic detailing the most amazing amount of useless information about Red Dead Redemption. Say for example you wanted to know how many hats had been shot of players heads in duels… well the answer would be 5 773 917, or if you cared how much money was spent in game ($3 …

Metacritic has released their stats for the first 6 months of this year and when compared to last year the results are quite astounding. Last year the top scoring game for the first 6 months was Street Fighter IV which scored a respectable 94%… Personally I find that far to high for a simple fighting game (with a deep fighting …

While we were in Los Angeles, we made a mission to go and find one of those Best Buy stores that you hear so much about. If you don’t know what a Best Buy is, it’s basically a massive store (think Game, Makro or Hi-Fi Corp) but dedicated to nothing but electronics, gaming, TV’s and all of that stuff that …