When is a heavy statue not heavy? You may notice that many international gaming website have posted up Red Dead Redemptions achievements list today, the very same list that we had already posted up nearly 5 days ago. So “nyeh!” to those slow pokes, bloody agents. Here’s your other news and random stuff for the day. News The Equaliser – …

Remember how No Doubt were suing Activision because they weren’t happy with the way their digital likenesses were being used in Band Hero?  They were a little peeved to discover that their avatars could be made to perform any of the songs in the game – believing that their likenesses would only be used for their own songs. It’s just …

Some videogames, such as Super Mario Bros 3, have a pervasive sense of realism. Eating leaves totally makes you grow a raccoon tail, which in turn allows you to fly if you run fast enough. Other games are somewhat less realistic. Humour site Cracked invited its readers to envision, through crafty photoshoppery, what games would be like if they were …

The topic of games based on movies and movies based on games has come up quite a lot in our recent episodes of The Lazygamer Podcast, and that’s mostly because they are not exactly in short supply these days. The first Mortal Kombat movie was one of the only game to movie adaptations that I have any respect for, if …

While I can’t think of a single person who really yearns for the return of games made using digitised actors – old-age gems such as Pitfighter, Mortal Kombat and Naughty Dog’s godawful  MK rip-off Way of the Warrior – it seems one company wants to return to this not-quite-golden-age. Indie developer Galloping Ghost has been working on Dark Presence ; …

Transformers 2, Broken arcade games, new consoles, R-rated games and more are the order of the day as we get together once more to discuss current events, the latest gaming news and robots. Activision threatening Sony? Magic the Gathering is Borked. A new Microsoft console in 2010, really? Mortal Kombat getting naughty again Why Burnout made one of us sad …

Remember Goro, the big scary 9 foot tall bad guy with four arms and a bad haircut? Of course you do, he was the final boss in the original Mortal Kombat a formidable foe to say the least. Now as you remember, the original Mortal Kombat used digitised versions of real actors for all of the in game characters. The …

With the recent financial problems that Midway have had, many of us were wondering if another Mortal Kombat would ever see the light of day. I was a massive Mortal Kombat fan back in the day, but lost interest when the new fighting system and styles were introduced, so I never bought any of them and gave the recent DC …