The global economic downturn is a phrase that’s been slung around a lot lately – and for good reason. The global economy is pretty much in the toilet (although it is starting to look a little more rosy), and everyone has been feeling its effects. Companies have been closing, stories of retrenchments abound and all the while prices have been …

One of the hottest topics on the Internet at the moment is how violent video games have become and what sort of effect this is having on our young. Well to put it into perspective lets think back to the 8Bit days when we used to innocently smash mushroom men, devour ghosts and explode little innocent diggers. Just because our …

This is one of those strange videos that only ever crawl out of the cracks in the internet on Fridays. Basically, a bunch of really strange people who sounds like they are humming in Spanish (yes, humming is possible in different languages, ok!) got together to take a zillion photos so that they could recreate the first level of Mario …

Have you ever wondered what Sonic would look like if he was placed in Braids world? How about Donald Duck or Megaman… Well then your truly warped wonderings have been realised and you will be happy to know that Sony, Donald, Mr Mega and pretty much everyone else would look awesome when stylised in a surreal world. Abe over the …

I just love it when artists create works like this. Deviant Art member Orioto has created some of the most jaw-dropping artworks that are freely available for you to use as a wallpaper on you PC. What makes the images so special is that he has created images of classic games, but in a remade-HD-PSN/XBLA sort of way, pretty much …

Gamerlimit.com has put together their list of the top 5 gaming icons of our time, while we obviously won’t be complaining about how won I do think that they have missed some important ones out. Their list is as follows 5.  NES Controller 4.  Space Invader 3. T-Shaped Tetris piece 2.  Mario  1. Pac Man Pac-Man and Mario I have …

Well, sort of. With the new Avatar system being integrated into the new Xbox 360 dashboard, some people have been hard at work (read: bored) creating avatar versions of some of their favorite characters and people including Super Mario, Kratos, Chuck Norris and more. Game characters, movie stars and political figures are in the line-up and heck even some really bad creations are in there too. I have posted a couple after the jump but you can check out the rest of them by following the link at the bottom of the article. source: Check out the whole bunch created by the guys at GamesRadar by clicking here.

With the huge success of the Lego franchise and more importantly Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones, it was inevitable that the gamers would want to see more mature Lego games. What would be the next game after Lego Batman? Gamesradar have put together a compilation of the ten games they would like to see in block form. The …