Earth’s nation of fence-sitters – one that is divided between Italian, French and German speaking populaces – looks to be taking a cue from its Northern neighbour with regards to violent video games. Switzerland’s parliament recently passed a silly new law that could lead to a ban on "violent" games being sold in the country. Last Updated: March 24, 2010
BioWare released their free new vehicle DLC for Mass Effect 2, it’s another whopping 473MB download and is available through their Cerberus Network. Here’s the word from the game’s official web site: "Also coming on March 23rd is the Firewalker Pack. Free to all Cerberus Network members, the Firewalker Pack contains 5 new missions featuring the Hammerhead heavy assault vehicle. …
The folks at Kotaku have just filmed some never before seen uses for the Playstation Move in a demo that was done for them recently. While we all have a basic idea of what Project Natal and Playstation Move really are, the worth of the products will only show depending on how they are used and how creative people can …
Here we go again, it seems that Assassin’s Creed II and Silent Hunter V, both of which employ Ubisoft’s new DRM scheme, are not the only new games who’s players are being tormented with DRM problems. EA’s new strategy game Command & Conquer 4: Tiberium Twilight is evidently undergoing severe DRM playability issues. Just as Ubisoft’s two games, C&C 4 …
Microsoft has revealed (via an advert on the Xbox 360 dashboard) that it will be releasing a stand alone 250GB HDD in the near future. The good news is that it will be released locally (in limited numbers) with the bad news being that it will set you back R999. Which is a huge price drop when you compare it …
Poland’s CD Projekt RED have released the debut trailer for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, showing off their brand new engine and a few new game features. The Witcher 2 which has no confirmed release date or publisher, will feature amongst others, a new dynamic day and night system, as well as new dialogue and combat systems. Oh and …
Do you feel like your Xbox avatar is missing something? Is that missing something a free Bing T-shirt advertising Microsoft’s new search engine? No? Me neither, but hey it’s free and for some reason that just makes it all okay. So if you would like a free Bing T-shirt for your avatar and don’t feel like searching randomly to find …
You know those seedy “800†telephone services, where lonely men could phone up and chat with a “hot†girl, and ask them original things like “So..what’re you wearing?†for a nominal fee? Well, that’s made a jump to the modern age, and internet upstart Gamecrush is now offering sad, lonely bastards the opportunity to get their video game on with …
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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