So as you may already know, The Develop Awards took place last night. What you probably don’t know is that both UK Rockstar studios received wards. Rockstar North was hailed as Best In-house Studio while Rockstar Leeds won the Best Handheld Studio prize. Leeds’ GTA: Chinatown Wars for DS is still rated by Metacritic as the top handheld game whilst …

Earlier today we posted up the ongoing drama involving the Ghostbusters video game and its woes on the Playstation 3. Now, when it comes to ranting and flamewars, people love to discuss this sort of thing. The thing is that we can’t forget why we are all here and it’s because we love playing games. So then, the question really …

Electronic Entertainment Design and Research has teamed up with Edge magazine to do some research into the gaming market and the trends that follow it. First up is a nice and simple chart showing how good the average Xbox 360 game is… so if your better half is planning on surprising you for your birthday you may want to plant …

Thank goodness that the local Capcom distribution is finally sorted because if through some cruel twist of fate, us South African didn’t get Street Fighter IV (and indeed Resident Evil 5), a lot of us would be really sad pandas. The first reviews are in and the game is looking pretty damn amazing. Metacritic averages are sitting on 95 and …

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe confirmed today that the demo for highly touted and much anticipated Killzone 2 will appear on the PSN store this Thursday, February 5th. The demo will contain the first two sections of “Corinth River” as well as the tutorial present in the retail version. Killzone 2, in the unlikely case you need to be reminded, is …

So it’s been a weekend now since the European NDA’s were lifted so I decided to take a swing past Metacritic to see which of the big guys have decided to get the extra attention by ripping off what is possibly the best game to come to the PlayStation 3. And you won’t believe which of the big names has …

In the past few days there have been a lot of articles talking about who has been making the most money and which games has sold the most. The fact is that whichever company ends up with the biggest pot of cash wins, those are the simple rules of running a corporate empire. However to us as gamers the most …

Shacknews is reporting that in an effort to keep Tomb  Raider Underworld High on the rankings on Metacritic, Eidos has a PR firm tasked with trying to convince publications and websites to hold off on their reviews if the scores are below a certain score. A story on 1up refers to the story first being broken when GameSpot U.K. journalist …