So once again the media around a 360 announcement got way ahead of themselves. The two biggest rumours over the last week was that either Microsoft were going to announce a new Xbox 360 Ultimate (which included everything) or that they were going to licence their gaming technologies out to third parties. The media and fanboys got themselves ready for …
There is a very interesting rumour doing the rounds this morning. A small Czech gaming site (www.hrej.cz) has been speaking to a 2K games insider and apparently Bioshock 2 is going to be a prequel. The insider is anonymous and the source page is in Czech (?) so I have no idea how authentic this is, but the moment I …
Once again www.Take2.co.za has come to the party and very kindly released its software sales percentages from the beginning of November to the end of December 2007. Unfortunately all our retailers seem to be under some embargo which doesn’t allow them to release sales numbers and our distributors don’t seem to want to either. However I have it under good …
Microsoft has released the list of the most played games on the Xbox 360 over the past year. Obviously they can only count games played on a Live connected Xbox 360, but the list looks fair enough. 1) Halo 32) Gears of War3) Call of Duty 44) Rainbow Six Vegas5) Call of Duty 36) Crackdown7) Oblivion8) Guitar Hero II9) Forza …
Warner Bros announced late last night that as off the first of May 2008 they are going to be going Blu-Ray exclusive. According to their press release. We believe that exclusively distributing in Blu-ray will further the potential for mass market success and ultimately benefit retailers, producers, and most importantly, consumers Warner Bros has always been Hollywood’s biggest seller of …
Back in October I posted an article about LA Noire being to big to come to the Xbox 360 as it won’t fit on a DVD. This was thrown around by PS3 fans as justification for including the Blu-Ray player in their console. However now it seems that may not have been the entire truth, the company behind the game …
Eurogamer regularly writes up a feature where they compare cross platform games and choose a winner. We are now at round 7 and so far the Xbox 360 has won the previous 6 rounds. So how did it fair this time? 1. Kane & Lynch = Tie2. Timeshift = Xbox 3603. GRAW 2 = Xbox 3604. Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground …
Floating into my inbox this afternoon is a press release from Ubisoft confirming what many had already suspected. Far Cry 2 is on its way to both the PS3 and Xbox 360 in the 2008-2009 Fiscal year. With the highly anticipated PC version landing in March this year I suspect it is only the dedicated console gamers who are going …
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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