Crytek Executive Producer, Nathan Camarillo has told CVG that he feels that Crysis 2 will have to break the 90% review average to have any impact on the gaming landscape as it lies today. According to Nathan the FPS genre is so competitive at the moment that any fluffing and anything under 90% will pretty much doom your title to …

The Kinect launch happened in the US earlier this morning which means that all the embargo’s from the mega sites have been lifted. I’m not going to try report on them all and will rather just stick all the links I find into this post for you to pick and choose from. Overall the reviews are positive but not earth …

Metacritic has released their stats for the first 6 months of this year and when compared to last year the results are quite astounding. Last year the top scoring game for the first 6 months was Street Fighter IV which scored a respectable 94%… Personally I find that far to high for a simple fighting game (with a deep fighting …

The RDR review embargo appears to have been lifted this morning for the majority of sites out there and it’s good news for Rockstar and gaming fans in general with the entire planet appearing to love Red Dead Redemption. I would like to take a moment to say “I Told You So”… my hands on time with the game were …

Famitsu is one of the premier gaming print publications in Japan – and perfect scores from the magazine, once rarer than hen’s teeth, are highly sought after by game developers and publishers. It’s becoming more and more apparent though that this generation in particular, Famitsu’s reviewers seem to have sold their souls – and with them their objectivity. Last Updated: …

Rebellion’s Aliens vs Predator hasn’t been receiving all out praise in it’s early reviews with some sites giving it absolutely abysmal scores… case in point 1UP who gave it a woeful D which pretty much means avoid at all costs. However on the flip side the Official PS magazine gave it 9/10 and IGN UK gave it a respectful 85/100… …

The Aliens franchise holds a special, horrifying, place in my heart and while I was never going to be picking up this game for myself I did really hope it would be awesome. Unfortunately last weeks demo’s glitches appear to be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to failings in this latest revival of this series. GameInformer has …

Thanks to all of EA’s marketing stunts that include crazy sin-based promo items involving cheques for lots of money and expensive superbowl advertising fiascos, you have most probably already heard of Dante’s Inferno. The biggest thing that I have heard about the game through and through is that the game is a blatant, unashamed rip-off of God of War, in …