Bioware are taking aim at a new audience with their latest work, Mass Effect 2. While still assuredly an RPG, it appears the game’s trying to covet fans of a different genre, shooters. Mass Effect 2 project director Casey Hudson has told Kotaku that the game’s shooting mechanics have been tweaked to appeal to the sort of gamer who plays …
Operation Flashpoint hits the scene as the sequel to an old favourite to those who actually played it and a new experience to fans of military shooters that are looking for a different change in pace. While games like the Call of Duty series usually floats just about anyones boat, Operation Flashpoint sets out to bring you a fully realistic …
If you listened to this weeks episode of The Lazygamer Podcast, you would know that we had a discussion about Indie Games replacing Xbox Live Community Games. We also spoke about how our support to Indie games and developers helps talented, new developers rise up and create great new games for us (Portal, Castle Crashers etc.). Well we want to …
 F.E.A.R. 2 P.O. ‘Story Behind The Scenes’ HD Monolith give us a good idea of what exactly to expect from F.E.A.R 2 project origin. The first game is one of the best shooters I’ve played and this iteration looks like it will more than live up to it’s predecessor. Last Updated: November 14, 2008
Gears of War 'Last Breath Machinima' You don’t have to look very hard these days to find a bad machinima, however the good ones are very few and far between, “the Last Breath” is the first in a series by TheDuoGroup and follows Colonel Victor Hoffman’s most well known exploits and the team he pulled together to make it happen. …
Red Faction: Guerrilla 'Multiplayer Beta' HD No one can say that those explosions don’t look amazing! No, not amazing, beyond amazing, if as, as this video hints, everything is completely destructible it’s going to be an absolute explosion-fest playing this game, and that’s a good thing. It’s hard to tell from the video whether the frame rate will hold up …
1UP Show: Gears of War 2 Single Player Preview the 1up show had a huge Gears of War 2 Single player preview, above is the video, I must warn you, although there don’t seem to be any big spoilers, they do go into a lot of details about the first level and if you want a surprise when you first …
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
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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