Remember back when you were a young lad, you could play just about any videogame and be entertained? Now that we’re older and more astute, those very games that would once keep us occupied would now make you vomit a little on the inside of your mouth. Every system is home to a few less-than-stellar titles, but after the jump …
Heavy Rain has finally arrived and after many months of discussions over visuals, a controversial control scheme and Quantic Dreams’ ability to deliver solid titles, we finally got to see what all the buzz was about. By now most of you know that Heavy Rain is not your traditional videogame. Some have had trouble calling it a videogame at all …
Michael Pachter, videogames industry analyst and man with glasses has given his verdict on the price that Microsoft will charge for Project Natal when it releases at the end of this year. According to Pachter, Microsoft don’t really want to cash in on the sales of Natal but rather find it a lot more important to get it into every …
If Michael Pachter really wants people to stop calling him an Xbot he should maybe shuffle his background around a bit and add in a Wii or PS3 game somewhere, a pile of Xbox 360 games does not fill you with confidence about him being unbiased. In his latest Pach-Attack the grandmaster analyst extraordinaire gives us his opinion on which …
The DICE conference has thrown up some decent honesty this year what with Bobby Kotick speaking candidly about being the Deathstar and the Harmonix affair last week. And now we get to EA’s CEO speaks about the failures that are Mirror’s Edge and Dead Space. To his credit he pretty much blames his own company saying that they didn’t get …
Over the past 2 weeks we have been running a Bioshock 2 competition where you stood a chance of winning the awesome Special Edition + Little Sister figurine kindly sponsored by Megarom for simply sending in the plasmid you feel should be included in the game. We received some awesome answers and while I can’t list all 343 entries here …
South African retailers have broken the street date for Heavy Rain. Easily one of the most anticipated titles of 2010, Heavy Rain is now available in many stores around the country, proving once more that local retailers still don’t even understand the concept of a street date. Let me tell you a quick story. On Friday, my wife – a …
[Update: Thanks eXp] Stephen Toulouse has responded and stated that the video was heavily edited to omit the threats made against The Pro. He will however speak to him regarding his tone. [Original story follows] It’s always tough to judge a situation when you are only being presented with one half of it… but this one does look pretty damning. …
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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