The folks over at Gamespot have decided that May is officially Video Game History Month. In honour of this spectacular occassion, they are taking in-depth looks back at video gaming history, because you don’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been, right? One of the most influential video games of all time is Capcom’s Street Fighter …
Sometimes the world astounds me. Now is one of those times. Zombie Cow Studios, developers of “Time Gentlemen, Please!†have announced their next game, set for release on Xbox 360 and PC. It’s called Privates – and is a twin stick shooter in the Commando 3 vein in which – and I’m really not making this up – “you lead …
The first Iron Man game – tied to and released at the same time as the rather good film – from Secret Level and SEGA was met with mediocre critical reception. It suffered from clunky, clumsy controls, bland graphics and repetitive missions. The folks from SEGA listened to all the negative feedback about the first game, and promised that the …
A lot of information has been popping up regarding Gears of War 3, and all of it is looking sounding really exciting. GameInformer magazine scans have hit the internet and don’t only give us a ton of new pretty pictures to look at, but are filled with truck loads of information about the game, including new characters and more. I …
The Forza franchise has been the defining racing simulator so far in this generation but as good as it may be there are some major things missing. While it’s driving physics may be top notch it misses out on awesome scenery, weather, night racing, open world freedom, boobs… Thankfully TDU2 has decided to step up to the plate and solve …
By now you’ve likely heard that EA, in an attempt to curb 2nd hand sales of their games, will be charging 2nd hand purchasers a surplus to utilise online features. While they’ve used incentives to elicit new purchases in the past with games like Mass Effect 2 and its Cerberus network and Battlefield Bad Company 2, when it comes to …
Gamestop has posted up some pre-order pricing for the upcoming PlayStation Move and as expected we are going to be forking out a fair amount for each controller. With pre-order pricing of $60 (R600) each we are going to be expected to pay R2400 for 2 players to have 2 controllers each. This is ignoring the fact that we will …
This seems to be a little golden nugget that many of us missed about the upcoming LittleBigPlanet 2. While the Move controllers will be the perfect design tools for level creation there is another tool that you all have in your hands right now that will work just as well. Something that the PS3 also has always catered for. Last …
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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