Since Jason West and Frank Zampella’s somewhat less than amicable split from Activision, the situation at the in-house Infinity Ward seems to have gone from bad, to worse. And now with the founding duo having set up their own studio, cleverly called Respawn entertainment, Activision may be looking at a mass exodus of Infinity Ward staff. Last Updated: April 14, …
X-com, the classic turned-based strategy game that set mankind against alien invaders – and stole so much of my time during the 90’s – will be getting a revival, courtesy of the team behind BioShock 2. Instead of sticking to the series roots though, the team will be taking the franchise in a new direction – something I have serious …
Those of you out there who are petrol-heads and are still enjoying Forza Motorsport 3 can now head on over to the Xbox Live Marketplace and pick up the latest DLC car pack, titled The Road & Track Pack. The new DLC pack is 104MB, costs 400 MS Points and includes 10 new sexy beasts for you to get loose …
Microsoft have released the first 4 official screens from the upcoming Gears of War 3 and there is something I completely missed in the trailer. If you take a look at the first screen we can see two Locusts flanking your bunkered position but instead of trying to take you out they appear to be fighting alongside you? Is this …
If you’re one of the few holdouts still playing your Original Xbox, or Xbox games on your 360, remember that today will be the very last day you’ll be able to do so online. The console – which ushered the first successful online system for consoles in 2002 will see it’s online switch turned off later today. Last Updated: April …
So Splinter Cell Conviction was released in America earlier this week and the reviews are already flooding in, here is a quick round up of all the main reviews I could find. In other news it is being reported that Splinter Cell Conviction is causing some Xbox 360’s to crash during the second level, if this is a programming fault …
As a South African gaming site we are always happy to support our local developers and today we get to do just that. Local developer Rodain “Nandrew” Joubert and his dashing good looks has created a nifty little puzzle-based roguelike game called Desktop Dungeons that lets you scurry around a dungeon and kill some meanies while managing your resources and …
Late last night I was chatting to Nick about the upcoming Gears of War 3 and the universal opinion (of the two of us) was that Gears 2’s multiplayer was disappointing and they completely screwed up the shotgun. We had other differing opinions about how the Lancer worked in Gears 2 compared to 1 but by far our biggest …
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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