By Lisa Haasbroek In the mood for 1980s nostalgia? And I don’t mean the type that involves a mullet and leg warmers. Yikes, I’m having bad fashion flashbacks. But back to the topic. The Commodore 64 ruled the market, PacMan was Atari’s hot new release, and video arcades were the place to be. Yes people, I’m talking about retro arcade …
Okay so here is how I imagine it went down… Microsoft headed on over to Japan to have a chat with Solid Snake, of Metal Gear fame, and attempted to bribe him to come on over to their console of choice. Snake was very excited about this opportunity but did ask for a large sign on fee. The Microsoft reps …
It seems that the huge surge in Xbox 360 sales in the US is having some unexpected side effects. The paid for Xbox Live service over there is starting to fail. According to a Microsoft support technician the servers are struggling to handle the weight of all these new users but the problem should be resolved by the end of …
By Doobiwan Not everyone can keep up with all the new releases, and with the catalogue of “old next gen” titles growing week by week, every so often a good deal pops up on an older title, something goes platinum, or becomes generally available in quantity for trade. This is often the best time to dig up some long forgotten …
I was reading a PS3ZA and game across an interesting post. Not sure how accurate it is but here is a list of exclusives for the PS3. There are definately a couple that would make me run out an buy a PS3. It does appear to include some of those “arcade” downloadable games but here is the list anyway. Last …
So yesterday I posted about the worldwide sales (excluding America) which had the Wii happily sitting on top of the pile with the PS3 coming second and the 360 bringing up the rear. Well there are no suprises in the US sales results this week so lets get straight to the hardware numbers 1. Wii – 740,7912. 360 – 367,3043. …
Thirteen-year-old Thousand Oaks resident Brandon Burns must have been a very bad kid. Santa brought the unlucky teen a PlayStation 3 for Christmas, but when he opened the box, he found it only contained a phonebook. Rather than call all the exciting phone numbers in the book, Burns reportedly laughed at the mix-up, but his parents did not. They’d shelled …
It seems Gabe and Tycho have decided they are no longer happy just drawing awesome cartoons and making some comments on the gaming industry, they seem to have decided to lash out against all the long standing institutions.. This week it is Mark Rein’s turn for a tongue… err keyboard lashing. After Tycho, rightfully, pointed out that the whole PS3 …
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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