EA, you bastards! Look what you’ve done! at some point this generation, EA decided they weren’t making enough money from the sale of games, especially the sale of used games – where they make not a damned thing. They implemented “Project 10 Dollar,†an incentive of sorts to get people to purchase their games new instead of 2nd hand. New …
The Madden NFL games are one of EA’s most popular and lucrative franchises. Reason being that in the United States, Football is huge, really huge, so fans are happy to throw their money at EA every time a new version arrives. I’m a huge football fan (go Steelers), and getting Madden in South Africa has been a problem for the …
I think I’ve made my love for EA’s Dead Space apparent. It filled in the survival horror gap left by Resident Evil’s focus on action, and Silent Hill’s focus on being crap. New footage from Gamescom has me even more excited for the sequel – even if it too will be less of a horror and have a somewhat …
We have already seen a decent bit of video and details about People Can Fly, Epic Games and EA’s upcoming shooter, but when you see this new footage out of the EA GamesCom conference, you may start paying even more attention. Not only is Bulletstorm looking absolutely gorgeous, but the gameplay is looking better than ever and like a whole …
During EA’s Gamescom conference they revealed that Bioware’s beloved RPG Space Opera series will finally grace Sony’s HD console. That’s right folks, the much lauded former Xbox 360 exclusive Mass Effect 2 is headed for the PS3, and will be docking on your SpaceStation 3 in January of next year. We thought it was pretty damned fantastic, awarding it a …
Battlefield developers DICE have started hyping their Gamescom appearance, promising to reveal “something great.†“As the preparations have been set and the ball is in motion, it’s safe to say we are going to have something great for people this year,†said Battlefield community manager zh1nt0. What could it be? The developer has said there’ll be no more map packs …
The original Syndicate, for those of you too young to remember, was an isometric cyberpunk real-time tactical game from Peter Molyneux’s Bullfrog Studios, the developers behind gems like Populous, Magic Carpet, Theme Hospital and Dungeon Keeper. It was a fantastic – and violent – game, where you lead a squad of agents doing cool things like assassinations, brainwashing and blowing …
This is not going to make Nick happy. Regular readers would know that our stalwart Zimbabwean refugee Nick is pretty damned excited about the upcoming return of the NBA Jam franchise. It was originally supposed to be exclusive to Wii – but ratings boards exposed high definition versions destined for Xbox box and PS3, presumably for their download services. EA …
Film classification in the UK is designed to help audiences understand what content is …
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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