Guitar Hero 5, despite its name, will not be the fifth Guitar Hero game. It’s been preceded by at least seventy-thousand titles bearing the guitar Hero epithet. It’s easy to see why Activision are bleeding this franchise dry; It’s netted them over $2 Billion in revenues. Shows how many people have inner rockstars they’re desperately trying to unleash. The third …
LucasArts have been in the news quite a bit lately, particularly because they’ve chosen to re-release most of their halcyon hits as downloadable titles. In addition to that, it seems they may have a brand-new IP in store for Xbox Live Arcade users. Yeah, you read that right. A game from Lucasarts that ISN’T tied to the Star Wars universe. …
The final straight and the rush for the finish line are on in the FIFA 09 league. With squeaky bum time arriving, results have been coming in, and the standings are nearing finality. Both Zonked and Zeo continued their rampage in the league. Zonked in particular was lethal, providing crushing scorelines against several opponents. One such result was an extremely …
A story was published through the night hinting that Mass Effect 2 may in fact be coming to the PS3 after all. The rumour started from a posting on Joystiq where they interviewed BioWare’s Matt Atwood and asked him who owns the Mass Effect IP. Apparently this IP is owned by the mass console loving EA Games and according to …
Generally I enjoy Yahtzee’s rants about video games and misguided design decisions but I have to be honest and say that I have never taken anything that he has said to seriously. However that was changed during this weeks review of Ghostbusters, alongside the generally enjoyable review of Ghostbusters he raises a point about the artistic merit and skill required …
We reported a few days ago that Battlefield 1943 would be launching on Xbox Live Arcade on the 8th of July, and by golly, it has! As reported earlier today, the game has been severely struggling with capacity issues on it’s servers, meaning that many people that bought it didn’t even get the chance to try it out on release …
It’s no secret that the Microsoft marketing machine is going to be going into overdrive as we come closer to the release of Halo ODST and it looks like their first Halo special has been leaked already. A Dutch Xbox store had the above item listed for a short period of time before the Microsoft Ninja’s swooped in and destroyed …
Ben Heck has become a bit of a Internet celebrity with his gaming mods and he has continued in his rich vein of form with the latest Xbox 360 laptop. This is the 3rd 360 laptop Ben has made and while it isn’t much different from the previous version it does have some decent improvements over the previous versions. And …
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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