With Red Dead Redemption coming out in the not to distant future now it looks like Rockstar are hard at working finalising the important aspects of their upcoming Western… the achievements. Red Dead Redemption will include 48 Achievements (Trophies) with 13 of them being secret and the other 35 listed below. As always these give us a little insight into …
Update 3: The matchmaking seems to be working decently again. There are also reports that a good chunk of the glitches have been sorted out as well. Update 2: The title update is working, and now the matchmaking is broken: @thevowel Yes, matchmaking is in a bad state on Xbox LIVE right now. We’re working on it and will resolve …
Hey, videogames can actually have beneficial effects! Take that, Jack Thompson and Fox News! Researchers at Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry, under the leadership of Dr Emily Holmes have discovered that the infamous, and much loved Russian puzzler can help prevent the onset of Post Traumatic Stress. They undertook a study in which 40 healthy subjects were shown disturbing and traumatic …
Splinter Cell: Conviction’s launch is now just days away and to get us all hyped up for the title Ubisoft has released a pretty awesome launch trailer. It’s got some awesome music, great cut scenes and some solid in game action. It also clearly communicates exactly why Sam is going on a rampage, this game really does look awesome. Last …
If ever there was an argument for 3rd party exclusives being stupid, this is it. Ninja Theory, the fellows behind PS3 exclusive action game Heavenly Sword have revealed that despite selling over one and a half million copies of the lauded title they’ve yet to break even. "It’s difficult. Heavenly Sword came out pretty early on the PS3, and we …
Mark Carson, head motion capture specialist at CaptiveMotion – the company responsible for Xbox 360 exclusive Alan Wake’s Motion capture – has said the Quantic Dream PS3 exclusive was technically incredible but flawed. “It’s beautiful and brilliant but visually uneven at points, which unfortunately is the nature of the industry because of the scope, budgets and time-frames required,†he said, …
Hey Rugby fans – your 4 year wait is nearly over. HB Studios has confirmed that it’s developing what’ll be the very first rugby game to hit current HD systems. It’ll be the first Rugby game available since 2007’s release of Rugby 08. HB Studios – responsible for a host of EA sports games over the last decade – are …
How much do you know about Breach? I didn’t really know much about it although I had heard the name quite often. Developed by Atomic Games (the guys who created Six Days in Fellujah, which got cancelled, then uncancelled), Breach uses a completely new engine created by the developers called the Hydrogen engine and to be quite frank, it puts …
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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