If you listened to this weeks episode of The Lazygamer Podcast, you would know that we had a discussion about Indie Games replacing Xbox Live Community Games. We also spoke about how our support to Indie games and developers helps talented, new developers rise up and create great new games for us (Portal, Castle Crashers etc.). Well we want to …
Here’s some incredibly surprising news; Yet another developer is bemoaning the Playstation 3’s stilted architecture and having a tough time getting their game to run well on Sony’s 3rd place, current-gen wonderbox. A broken record that PS3 fans must be getting pretty tired of hearing. With almost every 3rd party developer having similar concerns a full three years in to …
So the world financial crisis has finally hit the Recession Proof gaming industry with all three console manufacturers reporting a drop in sales and income. First up we have Sony who have reported a 48% drop in revenue with the gaming department bringing in $1.16 Billion. Next up is Nintendo who are reporting a 40% drop in revenue to $2.65 …
One of the more entertaining games on the PSN is Burn Zombie Burn where you are tasked with running around and setting Zombies on fire… pretty simple yet highly effective. Well the developers (DoubleSix) of this hit title have just announced that they have passed their internal target for the game of 70 000 downloads and at the same time …
While it cannot be seen as confirmed, Amazon.com now has Gran Turismo 5 set for a December release date. We don’t know the system behind Amazon’s release dates, but what does make me think that this may not be true is that it is dated for the 29th. I cannot see why anyone would want to release during that specific …
Mass Effect 2 is still a long way away from being released but the folks from EA have already made their final decision on the games box art. Our main generic Commander Shepard is back on the front cover but I find EA’s choice of two other characters to be very interesting indeed. While they don’t tell us who the …
Like we needed to a reason to go and watch the new Tekken movie anyway, but if you were still deciding on it then this should change your mind. Not only is it a video game turned movie which means we are honour bound to watch it but it also has Candice Hillebrand in it, who if you check on …
You may remember yesterday that we posted up a story about Activision going after the heart of the cheaters by demanding that the websites that host the software be transferred over to them along with all the money received and a list of everyone who paid for it? Well it seems like the threat has worked and the cheaters have …
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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