Archive for May, 2010

Thumbs Up To Blizzard, Who Says “Focus On Cool Features Not DRM”

Frank Pearce, co-founder of Blizzard, believes that DRM is “a losing battle”, and that piracy should instead be fought with “cool features” that make players actually want to connect to [...]

Gaming Is The New Cocaine

That’s what British counselor and therapist, Steve Pope, claims. Pope claims that two-hours of gaming is effectively equivalent to doing a line of cocaine with regard to the high that [...]

Arkham Asylum 2 Could Be Joker’s Last Laugh

In a recent interview with IGN, Joker voice-actor, Mark Hamill, hinted at Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 being Joker’s “last hurrah.” He told the website that this would most probably be [...]

Natal Getting A New Name And Large Price-Tag

We all knew this day was coming but have somehow forgotten in the few months that Microsoft’s Project Natal has been around. Many forgot about the ‘project’ bit altogether and [...]

Never Underestimate Stupid People In Large Numbers

Richard is a weekly columnist and he’ll be around every Thursday. You’ll be able to read all his work at this link. — Ed Links to read ANCYL to ‘vandalise’ [...]

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Completely Destructable Environments – Pros & Cons

Breach’s new Hydrogen physics engine establishes completely destructible environments, from blowing up the concrete block that someone has made his home to razing an entire building to the ground because [...]

These Marvel VS Capcom 3 Screens Will Invoke Rage

A bunch of new screenshots for Marvel VS Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds has been released, and looking at them, in all of their awesomeness, just makes me want [...]

Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X 2 Screens Out!

Ubisoft has released brand new screenshots for Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X 2, which is due to release in the third quarter of the year on PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox360 and Wii. [...]

Test Drive Unlimited 2 Launching In September

Atari and Eden Games’ Test Drive Unlimited 2 has gotten itself a September 21 release date in North America and is scheduled for PC, PS3 and Xbox360. A European and [...]

Namco: Ubisoft’s DRM Is “A Good Strategy” – Nandato!?

Ok, that isn’t the full story, but it’s just as brain fudgingly annoying. Namco Bandai Partners VP, Olivier Comte said that Ubisoft’s universally hated DRM system is a “a good [...]

City of Heroes – Going Rogue: Details & Screens

Going Rogue, the first City of Heroes expansion since the launch of City of Villains looks to give gamers what they have always wanted – freedom! Behind the immaculate surroundings [...]

New Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 Trailer!

A completely new trailer for CyberConnect2 and Namco Bandai’s upcoming Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 has been released onto the interwebs, and you’ll be doing yourself a great favour [...]

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Sony: Disc media “Is Still What Consumer Wants”

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss Andrew House says that while digital distribution is an “increasingly attractive” business proposition, it won’t replace physical media content, because ultimately consumers still want to [...]

Sony Going To ‘Lead Way’ In 3D

Andrew House (Family of Dr House perhaps?), SCEE president, believes that videogames will ‘lead the way’ in popularising stereoscopic 3D technology. “3D is a very exciting technology that has the [...]

We Want More Games Like Heavy Rain, Says Square Enix

Well i have mentioned before that Heavy Rain is but an example of what the gaming industry is capable of and will be talked about for a long time. Well [...]

Microsoft: Natal Will Jumpstart The 360

Microsoft’s Robbie Bach reckons that the XBox’s Natal motion control system will revitalise the platform without the need for a new model to be brought out. He claims that he [...]

Us Navy Gets Fit, Wii Fit

The US Navy is planning to implement the use of motion control fitness games in their new recruit training program. This sounds pretty strange considering that the Navy is usually [...]

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Assassins Of Persia, Now With Added Ezio

Those brave enough to have used Ubisoft’s new UPlay system with Assassins Creed 2 would have found that it was possible to purchase an Altair skin and run around Italy [...]

Wii Lets You Flap Arms, No Seriously

What is the stupidest peripheral that the Wii has ever had? No, you’re wrong. This is. It’s called the the Wii Wings and has been made for the game Bird’s-Eye [...]

Clan Review: Ventus Gaming South Africa

Ventus Gaming. The newest and most successful Multi Gaming Organisation in South Africa. Yesterday we had the opportunity to catch up with Pieter ‘Cyrus’ Venter, the founder. Ventus has a [...]

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A New Little Game Shop In Cape Town — Games Xetra Does It All

I found a cool shop in Durbanville, Cape Town for games, xetra. On the way to post a few review copies to Taahir, I — just happened to have — [...]

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Poll: Your Most Anticipated Game For June?

Every month we do a feature which includes the games for that month along with a short preview of what they are about. You can find the archive here. Now, [...]

Sony’s Responds To Insomniac’s Multiplatform Move

Sony has issued their official response to Insomniac Games’ partnership with Electronic Arts to develop multiplatform games. Despite the move to multiplatform, in which Insomniac Games are currently working on [...]

Insomniac Has Been Fancying The Xbox “For many years”

The word is that Insomniac Games has been considering a move to multiplatform, or more specifically an Xbox360 movement, “for many years”, even before the official announcement with EA to [...]

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Insomniac Going Multiplatform With EA Agreement

Insomniac Games, for the past 16 years, have been developing super awesome games exclusively for the PlayStation, but now times are changing. EA has announced that they have signed a [...]

Ubisoft Toronto Making New Splinter Cell

Ubisoft Toronto is the publishers latest studio headed by none other than Jade Raymond (the hot chick who developed Assassins Creed 1). The studio is even partially funded by the [...]

Wentworth Miller Is Chris Redfield In Upcoming Resident Evil Movie

If you don’t know who Wentworth Miller is, get a TV. Seriously, his face is so infamous that you’d swear he was actually public enemy number 1. Anyway, the Prison [...]

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Not All Kids Love Mario

Most kids love Mario for some unknown inherent reason but this kid seems to have the right idea. I mean, why should little kids like a fat Italian plumber who [...]

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Avalanche: DRM Punishes Legal Gamers

Just Cause 2 developer, Avalanche Studios, claims that DRM systems such as the one currently implemented by Ubisoft are actually punishing those few people who pay money for their PC [...]

Studio Picks Director For Hitman 2 Movie

20th Century Fox has selected Daniel Benmayor to direct Hitman 2 the movie spin-off, of the Hitman Gaming Series. Benmayor made his feature debut with Spanish film “Paintball”, but mainly [...]