By Werner Dohse  If you don’t know what Command & Conquer is, then I don’t know under what rock you’ve been living the last 13 years. As I’m sure most of you know the first C&C was released in 1995, and following that, a total of eight C&C sequels (excluding the Red Alert spin-offs). For most of that time C&C …
By Brett Cocking Its not very often, the chance comes along to play the side of evil, to see the world from their point of view. In overlord you get this chance by taking control of a very Sauron-esque overlord who, instead of searching for little people with furry feet and a ring, takes control of his minions and uses them …
He’s back, after last weeks ramble about web comics Yahtzee is back in full force in the gaming world again and this week he sets his sights on Lego: Indiana Jones. To be honest I haven’t ever gotten into the Lego series but if Yahtzee gives it a thumb up then I have no choice but to go out and …
By Philip Dunkley So the time has come for us to release the next competition (yes another one), so here goes. Ster Kinekor has once again sponsored Blu-Ray discs to us, but this time it’s a bit different. Instead of releasing a review for a specific movie, I’m just going to go ahead and give away 5 Blu-Ray Titles, as …
PSBeyond has been given a preview of the upcoming game Mirrors Edge and it sounds absolutely fantastic. First off it’s being made by the company who developed the awesome Battlefield Bad Company, DICE… Basically the game is about free running and while there are some guns in the game they are sometimes more of a hindrance than a help …
It looks like Ken Lobb from Microsoft Game Studios has accidentally confirmed the known existence of the 360 motion controller. During an interview he is chatting about the upcoming Banjo-Kazooie and goes on to say you basically grab with the wrench, and then you twist the controller around and it will move different things in the game Now the last …
Is there a new Xbox 360 about to be announced? The latest unsubstantiated rumour is that we are going to be seeing a Xbox 360 slim, with a 1TB HDD, Blu-Ray drive and a combined GPU/CPU… Would a Wii sized Xbox 360 be of interest to anyone really? One of the things I don’t like about the Wii is it’s …
By Philip Dunkley Now it’s no secret that I, Philip Dunkley, have a serious addiction to Guitar Hero. Let’s rephrase that. Guitar Hero II and III, as I never got the privilege of playing number 1, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is this. I would estimate that Guitar Hero has probably taken away a good 1000 hours of my …
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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