Archive for May, 2011

This Is The Dead Island Cover Image

Pack shots are usually boring, but not this time. Dead Island’s cover is pretty dead, mainly because it includes a zombie hanging from a tree for the “I” in the [...]

Dragon Age II Lead Designer Comments On Fan Complaints

When Dragon Age II was released it was followed with a lot of criticism and controversy. Some loved it, some hated it and some were indifferent. Complaints about the game [...]

Blizzard DotA Should Launch Alongside StarCraft 2: Heart Of The Swarm

StarCraft II’s lead producer, Chris Sigaty, has said that Blizzard DotA is still in development and it will be ready once Heart of the Swarm launches in 2012. Blizzard DotA [...]

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Review: Mortal Kombat

The fighting game genre is a very tricky genre to create games for. On the one hand you want to please hardcore fans of the franchise by including hard and [...]

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PSN Fully Restored By The End Of The Week, More Hacker Threats: “The End For Sony”

Sony has announced that by the end of this week, the Sony PlayStation Network and Store will be fully restored. The news means that players will be able to use [...]

Poland Gives Obama Collector’s Edition of The Witcher 2

So, you’ve got an important dignitary coming over to visit your country and possibly strengthen political ties but you’ve forgotten to get him a gift (which is customary in such [...]

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Devil’s Third Dev Diary Is Completely Insane [Video]

THQ has released a psychotically bizarre pre-E3 development diary for its upcoming Devil’s Third. The video is a perfect blend of the world’s most excited Asian entering Valhalla Studios and [...]

Mortal Kombat DLC Is Imminent

Warner has released a video showcasing the new DLC pack for Mortal Kombat. The pack contains skins for the seven characters which were initially a pre-order bonus. The pack includes [...]

Call Of Duty Elite: Form Groups, Compete Online — Set To “Change The Way We Play Multiplayer”

Call of Duty Elite, a digital platform development by Activision and Beachhead is scheduled to compliment Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 when it’s release later this year. CoD: Elite [...]

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Hitman: Absoultion To Be “More Accessible”

Io Interactive as some rather ambitious plans of making Hitman: Absolution more accessible to a wider audience than previous games while still remaining true to the core and holding onto [...]

The FIFA 12 Player Impact Engine Is Quite Special [Video Included]

The Player Impact Engine for Electronic Arts latest soccer title, FIFA 12, is the engine which handles and controls the collisions between players. It’s a system built to add realism [...]

Life, The Universe, And Gaming — The Real Rapture [Column]

Foreword: Exams fuck life up. Which is ironic because passing them — constantly — is what sets life up for you later on… Right? I sure hope so. In any [...]

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Sony’s NGP Gets Named!

As is the case with any upcoming release of something with a codename, there will be a whole host of names postulated and guessed at, before the eventual ‘actual’ name [...]

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Dead Island Gameplay Trailer Releases

If you’re an avid follower of our site, you would remember Dead Island making our Trailer Of The Week for the last week in February, with a cinematic trailer that [...]

StarCraft II: Heart Of The Swarm Trailer Leaks

Another day, another leak. This time, Blizzard Entertainment are the victims of a leaked forty-five-second cinematic trailer involving the next of their episodic releases in the trilogy of StarCraft II [...]

Gears Of War 3 World Premiere Trailer Debuts

As was previously teased, Epic Games have released the full World Premiere Trailer for the Gears of War 3 campaign. Featured are the usual stars of Marcus, Dom, Anya and [...]

Inside The Driver San Francisco Collectors Edition

Are you a hoarder? Or do you just like Collectors Editions? Actually, who cares. You can be whatever you like. Even a pilot. Ubisoft has revealed the Collectors Edition and [...]

Disney Universe Announced [Video]

Disney has announced a new multiplayer action-adventure game titled Disney Universe which is set to release on PS3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC. In Disney Universe, players suit up as [...]

Forza 4 Will Award You With New Cars If You Import Your Forza 3 Profile

If you played Forza 3 for hours where you bought almost every car you could ever afford, you’ll be very glad to know that in the upcoming Turn 10 title, [...]

Contractions Multiplayer Trailer: Don’t Think Birth, Think F.E.A.R. 3

The mode revealed below is called Contractions and it’s related to F.E.A.R. 3. The mode leaves players stuck in an increasingly smaller arena where thick fog progressively swallows the battleground. [...]

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Alice: Madness Returns — Screenshots Of Hysteria! Black, White And Blood

Remember the previous Alice: Madness Returns screenshots and how great they were? Unicorn head-on-a-stick, funny-but-scary teapot, small-girl-big-knife? Well, we have more of that, only this time it’s black and white [...]

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Review: Motorstorm: Apocalypse

As you may notice this review is late. Very late. First it is due to my PS3 dying (Yellow light of  Death) and then getting fixed and then the Japanese [...]

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Friday Game: Mario Bros

A very long time there was pong. And then there were other games. And then on the 1st June 1983, a chap (Chinese Jap), Shigeru Miyamoto sat pondering in his [...]

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Ubisoft Wants Next-Gen Now

I think we’re all eagerly anticipating some solid news on when Sony and Microsoft plan on releasing their next-gen consoles, and Ubisoft UK boss Rob Cooper has gone on record [...]

BioWare Releases New Dragon Age Artwork

Anxious for some news from BioWare about the Dragon Age series? I certainly am. And BioWare to the rescue! (Squeeeeeeeeee!) Last night, three pictures were released on the Dragon Age [...]

Dungeon Siege III Demos — The Dates Are Weird

Why do you play a demo? Me, I play because I want to get a feel for the game before I play it. I don’t play a demo unless I’m [...]

Entry-Level Sony NGP Not So Good Anymore

Rumour has it that the entry level NGP, or PSP 2, from Sony will have half the RAM previously suggested. An article from 01net hints at Sony dropping half the [...]

Gaze Upon The First 52 Inch Glasses-Free 3D TV

Yes, they said it was impossible but here it finally is; glasses-free 3D on a large resolution screen. Last year, Toshiba brought glasses-free 3D TV’s to the masses of Japan [...]

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FIFA 12 Screenshots Emerge

Here’s a baker’s dozen of FIFA 12 screenshots straight out of the oven. Besides the usual shots of football players playing football is a singular screenshots of the new menu [...]

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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Screenshots Have Landed

A set of images relating to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has landed. Have a look, let us know what you think. Other Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 [...]

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