Being on the wrong side of the planet sometimes has it’s advantages but one of the major disadvantages is that we are living in the wrong day entirely. It’s now bedtime on Thursday night over here but Friday morning in South Africa and Friday evening in Australia… I can’t keep up. Which is my excuse for missing the Zero Punctuation …
Woahhh! Will you look at that? It’s Thursday already! you know what that means, right? It’s time for us to post yest another Zero Punctuation! This time round, the now goatee-less Yahtzee reviews Square-Enix’s Nier – a game that’s been receiving mixed reviews just about everywhere. Zero Punctuation is no exception. It seems Nier is a game that for everything …
Capcom have a terrible habit of making slight additions and tweaks to Street Fighter games and releasing them with new, increasingly suffixed and prefixed titles. Super Street Fighter IV forgoes the usual Championship Edition and Turbo/Hyper Fighting phases proceeding directly to Super. While this iterative release obviously wont have the significant impact of its forebear – which ignited the fighting …
Over the course of a device’s lifetime it generally gets more refined, smaller and sleeker. That happened with the Nintendo DS, seeing a revised DS lite, and then the DSi, which additionally featured 2 cameras and slightly beefier specs. Tradition went out the window with the next iteration though. Bucking the trend, the DSi XL did away with any semblance …
Although I have been gaming for a very long time, I have only been exposed to proper rhythm games in the last year or so (Guitar Hero & Co don’t count). Games like Elite Beat Agents and Rhythm Heaven are really kind of insane in a good way and really made me feel like I had been missing out on …
I was at an event yesterday (that we can’t talk about), playing a game (that we can’t talk about) with one of Yahtzee’s business partners. If you don’t remember Yahtzee opened a gaming bar in Brisbane with Guy Blomberg of www.AustralianGamer.com and 2 other guys. Well Guy and I were on the same side for most of the afternoon but …
DICE themselves haven’t been shy in putting Battlefield Bad Company 2 up against that monster of a title, Modern Warfare 2. From official statements by PR people to even coding in quips against MW2 in the game it is obvious that they want to be measured against MW2. So I will. There are two distinct parts to both games, we …
When the announcement was made that Final Fantasy XIII – once exclusive to the PS3 – was going to make its way to the rival X360 platform, the gaming world was put in to a state of shock. Now that the first Final Fantasy for this generation of consoles is finally available, lets see if the game itself manages the …
Cloud gaming removed hardware barriers, but it replaced them with something less visible and …
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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