Big surprise. This sounds a lot like the dualshock story now doesn’t it? In a nutshell, Bloomberg reports that some company called Hillcrest Laboratories has sued Nintendo claiming that Nintendo is using their motion-controlling inventions in the Wii. Along with the whole song and dance, Hillcrest is trying to block imports of the Wii and it’s controllers, which will obviously …

Here is a look at the first ever in-game footage of Heavy Rain and it’s “contextual” battle system. To be honest it looks like nothing more than a quicktime event to me. The visuals are looking stunning though and the game as a whole is proving to be quite interesting. I can’t wait to see more of this. Last Updated: …

I just saw the Star Wars: Force Unleashed demo land on the Xbox Live marketplace. At over 900mb it’s going to hurt a bit but hopefully it’s worth it. Mine is busy downloading right now. Apparently it is available on PSN as well but I was hoping someone can confirm that quickly? Last Updated: August 21, 2008

Remember Grand Theft Auto 4? It’s the one where you play that odd Eastern European bloke that runs amok in Liberty City. Of course you remember it, although you don’t hear it’s name as often as you used to. That’s because most of you have either gotten tired of babysitting your in-game friends or have finished the entire game and …

There is a lot of hype on both sides of the fence for this game with some people saying it is going to kill the Wii while others ecstatic that the Wii is getting a decent hardcore game. I personally am not impressed yet, I just can’t see it working well in the flesh, but I guess only time will …

Meet the PS3 keypad which is blatantly in the wrong place. I understand they didn’t want to be called out for copying the 360 but really this is pretty much impossible to use while gaming… Anyway apart from the horrific design decision the keypad is actually pretty fantastic. It has a touchpad built in, do you see it? Sony have …

This may not be E3, but that doesn’t mean that Leipzig is not going to produce some really good news, today being the first day has already proved that and has left most anticipating more. While the usual hands on previews have all been released there has still been a lot of announcements being made but many of the big …

As cool as this weeks Zero Punctuation is nothing prepares you for the absurdity that follows it. Okay well I just prepared you but that isn’t the point, the point is… Let’s start again. Click play, enjoy Yahtzee ripping into Soul Calibur and then boogie on down the Escapists staff working at E3 Last Updated: August 21, 2008