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HALO 3: ODST – Only 3 hours long?

By Gavin Mannion
March 12, 2009
in :  Gaming
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Gamer.tm has posted up their first impressions of the upcoming Halo 3: ODST and it sounds interesting… not sure if it sounds good but it sounds interesting none the less. First lets get the bad out of the way, apparently everyone already knows that Halo 3: ODST is only going to be between 3-5 hours long in the multiplayer section …

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Xbox Live Down?

By Geoffrey Tim
March 12, 2009
in :  Gaming
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Reports on bungie.net forums speak of difficulties connecting to Halo 3 matches. Instead of finding players to frag, the search would continue looping. Seems the problem has moved over to Xbox Live itself, which appears to be experiencing technical difficulties. It’s a good thing that Xbox Live is a premium, paid-for service that never falters, isn’t it? Are any of …

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Crytek announce CryEngine 3 – Consoles Join The Party

By Nick De Bruyne
March 12, 2009
in :  Gaming
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Crytek, who are best know not only for their great games (FarCry, Crysis), but their incredibly amazing game engines, have announced that they will be showcasing their next game engine, CryEngine 3 at this years GDC. Crysis recently blew the gaming industry (as well as a couple of graphics cards) away with it’s incredible graphical capabilities, with the unfortunate side …

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Sony explains why they didn't release LBP through the PSN

By Gavin Mannion
March 12, 2009
in :  Gaming
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PlayStation Network Senior Director Susan Panico has been chatting to analysts about the general idea of downloadable content and full games. She mentions “One of the things we found, though, was that the Blu-ray disc experience for marquee games like that [LittleBigPlanet] currently just work better because the consumer wants to go in and get that physical product,” Now I …

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Zero Punctuation: House of the Dead: Overkill and Killzone 2

By Gavin Mannion
March 12, 2009
in :  Gaming, Reviews
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This week’s Zero Punctuation is a bumper two for one edition. Yahtzee starts of by having a go  reviewing House of the Dead: Overkill on the Wii and after last weeks let down I can say that he is back on the horse in grand style. However he then somehow leaves the trail and ends up reviewing Killzone 2 which he …

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Left4Dead Cake – Not looking very yummy

By Gavin Mannion
March 12, 2009
in :  Gaming
3

Videogame cakes are the life blood of gaming geeks birthday parties but I am not sure this one is going to become the standard for many people. Yes it is incredibly well detailed and you have to take you hat off to the bakers at Charraj.com but could you honestly eat that? It’s just gross Last Updated: March 12, 2009

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The Verge Update: Cancelled Due To ADSL Issues

By Nick De Bruyne
March 11, 2009
in :  Gaming
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Update: I just got a call from the production company to apologise to us. They managed to get the ADSL back up a few minutes before the show, but had already officially cancelled with us so they used the first other person they could find to get on the show as a back-up. As most of you know, I was …

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Periodic Table of Video Game Characters

By Gavin Mannion
March 11, 2009
in :  Gaming
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Yesterday we had the pointless post about the twit who microwaved his PS3 and today we have yet another pointless post. However this one is actually pretty awesome, iHeartChaos.com has put together a periodic table of the elements entirely compiled from video game characters… or more realistically it is entirely compiled from characters that have appeared in a video game. …

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