In amongst the all the April Fool’s sophistry that perpetuated itself through recent news was the announcement of a new game by Twisted Pixel Games, creators of “The Maw”. Heralded as a 2.5D action platformer "based around the simple concept of ‘splosions and the ridiculousness that ensues," it sounded like a pretty awkward attempt at humour. Turns out the joke’s …

I would like to apologise up front to our female readers but I just couldn’t resist. It’s all in Dutch so I don’t know what they are saying but the idea behind it is pretty obvious. Meet the Shii, the console for girls who are sick and tired of their men hogging the overly manly Wii… No wait that’s not …

Simon Wells from Activision has been chatting to MCVUK about their plans and expectations for the future and I have to say that I think he may have been smoking a bit of the giggly twig. According to Simon they are aiming for Modern Warfare 2 to become the best selling game of all time. While that may be completely …

What? Did you think all those reports that you read were true? Ex-Bungie developer Christian Allen, when asked if Killzone 2 could run on the 360’s hardware had the following to say in an interview with hiphopgamershow: “Oh yeah, Killzone 2 could totally be done on 360 if Guerilla wanted to. The tech is there, if the team and the …

Well, that’s what one of the Raven developers says anyway, the question is, do we believe him? X-Men Origins: Wolverine is promising to finally break the curse that has been bestowed on many a movie based game over the last couple of years, the last being The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. Just a short while ago, I …

Sony usually wear the crown when it comes to strange adverts for consoles, but this incredibly odd advertisement for the Xbox 360 from Korea proves that Microsoft is just as capable at creating some strange adverts of their own. At least it has subtitles, so you can actually understand what the woman in the advert is saying, but if by …

It is really fantastic to see that even some of the more well known and larger game development studios will even take some time to celebrate April fools day. This trailer was released onto the internet yesterday, and focuses on Colonel Campbell, in a strange mask thing absolutely pwning a couple of those mini metal gear thingies (Sorry, it’s been …

Shacknews have managed to get their hands on a 6 minute gameplay preview of Batman: Arkham Asylum that shows off quite a decent chunk of gameplay. I have been quite interested in this new Batman title, but haven’t actually seen any gameplay whatsoever until now and my initial impressions are that the game has potential to be really great, but …