Archive for June, 2011

EA Takes A Crack At A Transformers Game

Last year Activision took a swing at making a Transformers game and although War for Cybertron was not a smash hit, it was certainly a pleasant surprise and decently above [...]

L.A. Noire Dev Entangled In Its Own Investigation Of Unlawfulness

Team Bondi boss Brendan McNamara believes that it’s totally reasonable for his employees, the L.A. Noire development team, to be “killing themselves” working long hours because that’s what the business [...]

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Get A Good Look At Arkham City’s Riddler

A new promo pic for Batman: Arkham City has been released. Like all the others, it’s been done in black and white with a dash of colour. We’ve seen similar [...]

Microsoft Believes Kinect Will Grow On Hardcore Gamers

Microsoft believes that Kinect will eventually win hardcore gamers over. Many core gamers were disappointed with Microsoft’s Kinect-centric E3 2011 press conference. Speaking with Eurogamer, Xbox senior product manager David [...]

On Star Wars: The Old Republic, The EA Boss Speaks

Channelling Yoda is fun! EA Games label boss Frank Gibeau is at it again… First he picks on my beloved Dragon Age 2, and now he has set his sights [...]

DotA 2: All That We Know So Far

The majority of sentient beings who have access to the internet should be aware of the existence of DotA 2, the sequel to DotA, currently in development by Valve in [...]

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Limbo Bound For PSN

Limbo is a well known indie-developed game that although humble in its origins and mysterious in its content, has set a new standard for arcade games, over Xbox Live Arcade. [...]

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“You Ship A Game, Not An Engine” – Activision

That is Activision’s latest slating of Battlefield 3 and EA, even if they won’t resort to naming names and that’s besides the courtroom battles between the two companies. They believe [...]

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Batman: Arkham City Box Art Revealed

Earlier this month publisher Warner Bros. Interactive revealed the box art for the PC version of the highly anticipated and upcoming Batman: Arkham City. Long story short, it was pretty [...]

Uncharted Clone Unearthed

Switch out a few letters, squint slightly and a new game called Unearthed looks very much like a well-known PS3-exclusive that may or may not be pretty much exactly the [...]

Female Armour Is Apparently Inadequate For Battle

There are tons of games where you have female characters wearing armour but said armour is barely enough to actually protect the wearer in battle. Not that I’m complaining though. [...]

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Bodycount Gets A Release Date

Bodycount, a shooter created by Codemasters, has been given a release date. The game is scheduled to launch on the 30th of August in North America and the 1st of [...]

LulzSec Suspect Has Been Banned From The Internet

Ryan Cleary was recently arrested for having a relationship with LulzSec, an online group which hacked various firms over a 50-day period. Cleary was taken into custody in Essex where [...]

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Blizzard Will Let You Play World Of Warcraft For Free

Ever wanted to try World of Warcraft for longer than a month? Or perhaps you never had time during your month trial period? Well, Blizzard has announced that things have [...]

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Sony: “We Tried To Protect Our IP” And That’s Why We Were Hacked

Sony boldly claims that they were only hacked because they tried to protect their Intellectual Property. During a speech in Tokyo, Sony’s president and CEO Sir Howard Stringer stated that [...]

BioShock: Infinite Rakes In The Awards For GCA: Best Of E3

The results are in for the Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 and no surprise really but BioShock: Infinite scooped up just about every accolade it possibly could, I wouldn’t [...]

Victory! Supreme Court Rules Against The California Video Game Law

Brown vs. EMA (or Entertainment Merchants Association), which was formerly Schwarzenegger vs. EMA was a long-running case to decide the fate of the 2005 Videogame Law. The Law sought to [...]

Final Mass Effect’s Fantasy Universe Inspired By Spirits Within

BioWare‘s Mass Effect series has certainly taken its cues from a lot of other games, movies and other avenues that came before it, the more obvious perhaps being the Star [...]

It’s Under Assumption That Duke Nukem Fails?

Nobody ever expected Duke Nukem Forever to possibly live up to all those years of hype and if you did then I truly feel your pain but certainly no one [...]

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Unreal Engine Screen Shows Stunning Foliage

This is just an environmental shot, but…just look at it. Epic has put out this screen to show exactly what the Unreal Engine 3′s new foliage system can do. It [...]

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Anonymous Will Be Back

Just when you thought we’d seen the end of all this anti-sec hacking madness, think again. With everybody on high alert, members of both Anonymous and LulzSec getting arrested as [...]

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The ‘Neux Does It Again — Fable: The Journey Hyping Inside

Peter Molyneux, the grand patriarch of the hype machine as we know it, is an inspirational personality in gaming, to many. He is seen as one of the greatest storytellers [...]

Assassin’s Creed Revelations Animus Edition, Encyclopedia Details

Just as Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood had the awesome Codex Edition, Revelations will be receiving the same treatment in the form of the premium priced Animus Edition. Animnus Edition Features: -Behold [...]

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Post-West/Zampella Infinity Ward Has “Something To Prove” – Sceptics

So after Treyarch stepped up to the plate last year and filled the void left by the then gutted Inifnity Ward with a truly stellar game in CoD: Black Ops, [...]

A Fine Example Of An Advertising Fail

The image below of the billboard for Duke Nukem Forever seems to be in one of the worse possible locations it could be in. Yeah that bill board is right [...]

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Dragon Age 2, It’s Controversial

It has become a well-established mindset on eGamer that I am the inimitable BioWare fanboy amongst the wonderful writers here, and while everyone else is fully aware of the inherent flaws in BioWare games, those flaws fly right over my head in the face of my apparent bias. Or so they’d have you believe…

Forza Motorsport 4 Limited Collector’s Edition Detailed [Screens]

Forza Motorsport fans have, in recent times, replaced all other racing fans as the definitive, hardcore petrol-heads of the gaming world. Since Forza Motorsport 2 blew us all away, the [...]

Black Eyed Peas Game Will Be Ubisoft’s Dirty Bit [Video]

So the Black Eyed Peas are working with Ubisoft to release a video game, that’s right, a video game, with achievements and everything! The game will follow the Dance Dance [...]

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Crysis 2 Ultra Upgrade Explained, Screenshots And Video Inside

So yesterday the long awaited DirectX11 patch for Crysis 2 went live on the Crytek website, answering the prayers of many fans who were outraged when the game released only [...]

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Get Torn Between Factions In BioShock: Infinite [Video]

This latest developer diary for BioShock: Infinite sees BioShock creator Ken Levine explaining the socio-political situation in the sky-city if Columbia. The video explains how the city of Columbia was [...]