Archive for July, 2011
Review: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 is a shallow, boring and really bad game. eGamer Rating: Addictive: No, it’s a real chore to play through. Worth The [...]
Review: R.U.S.E.
Okay so it’s a bit late, but here is your review of R.U.S.E., a real time strategy from Ubisoft with the catch-phrase “Don’t believe what you see”. Strong contender or just something to pass up? Click to find out more…
Readers Digress – Fry Day Funzies!
Readers Digress is a daily feature where the writers and the readers all get a chance to talk about anything they want, gaming or otherwise. Anyone and everyone has a voice in this feature. Even you!
Heroes Of Newerth Now Free-To-Play
Today, S2 games announced that their only game, Heroes of Newerth, has gone free-to-play. Starting right now, anyone can download and play the competitive multiplayer, DotA-inspired game for absolutely free. [...]
Upcoming Duke Nukem Forever Patch Will Increase Weapon Slots
The highly controversial Duke Nukem Forever has received tons of flak from critics and gamers alike, but one of the more common annoyances with the game was the questionable two-weapon [...]
EA Boss Says 3D In Gaming Hasn’t Had “A Big Uptake”
According to the CEO of EA, John Riccitiello, 3D gaming hasn’t yet caught on as the publishing giants once expected it to. Due to this, EA plans to refocus its [...]
Ubisoft Calls DRM “A Success”
Ubisoft still seems to be fully backing its anti-piracy DRM methods, despite how unpopular they are and the repeated breaking down of them by discontented hackers. The studio’s DRM system [...]
Rage Enemies Have Some Personality, Until You Kill Them
This latest behind-the-scenes look at Rage shows us how the developers worked hard to create enemies that had different lifelike personalities, just so you could go and blow them up [...]
Kick Ass With Lugaru, The Martial Arts Rabbit
If any of you are familiar with the unique and appealing combat adventure game Lugaru, by small indie company Wolfire games, then I need not continue. If however, you’re stuck [...]
A Gamer’s Perspective — Does Gaming Have Benefits? [Column]
Reader! I have something truly ridiculous to tell you! This column isn’t going to be talking about Call of Duty! Believe it, for it is the truth! In what is [...]
Metro: Last Light Gameplay Clip, Now With Nazi-Like Meetings
The second gameplay trailer for Metro: Last Light has landed, and it’s pretty cool. In fact, I enjoyed watching it. My heart started beating a little faster as the characters [...]
Comic-Con 2011: Mass Effect 3 Interview With Casey Hudson [Video]
Mass Effect series creator Casey Hudson was at Comic-Con this past week giving interviews and talking about Mass Effect 3. Here is an interview, courtesy of Destructoid, where he speaks [...]
Has The PSP Vita Been Scaled Down?
By now, you should know what the Vita is, Sony’s new and upcoming handheld console. What you might not know about is how cheap they are being marketed at, namely [...]
Dragon Age II Disappears From Steam — Legacy DLC To Blame?
Dragon Age 2′s latest downloadable content entitled “Legacy” released just this week. Look out for a review on it in the Readers Digress. Coinciding with its release, however, was the [...]
FIFA 12 Box Art Features Manchester United And Arsenal [Updated]
The UK version of FIFA 12 will boast the following cover. According to the picture, Arsenal and England’s midfielder, Jack Wilshere, will grace the cover alongside Manchester United and England’s [...]
Developers Should Be Making Their Games For Xbox 360 — Tekken Dev
Speaking on the Tekken series expanding onto the Xbox 360 with their previously released Tekken 6, series producer Katsuhiro Harada has said that all developers should be making their games [...]
In The Land Of Darksiders 2, Technical Difficulties Means No Multiplayer
Multiplayer isn’t always as easy as plug-in cable; ???; profit. Instead, it takes hours and hours of development from companies to make games support this function, and sometimes alongside those [...]
The Dark Knight Rises CG-ified
By now you must have seen the teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, the final episode in Christoper Nolan’s Batman trilogy. It is arguably the most anticipated movie of [...]
Behold, An iPad Made With T-Rex Bones
For many people, a R8000.00 price tag on the newly released iPad 2 is extremely hard to justify. Though, if you thought that price was high, you won’t believe what [...]
Portal 2 Causes 42% Sales Revenue Increase For Steam
Valve does not like to release financial figures. They aren’t interested in competing, and they don’t want you to know how much money they make. While that’s all fair, it [...]
DICE: Battlefield 3 Frame Rate Issue Is “Out Of Proportion”
DICE boss, Karl Magnus Troedsson, commented on the Battlefield 3 frame rate “issues”. According to fans all around the world, the mere 30-frames per second on console is simply not [...]
Review: Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
Games with robots, laser cannons, rocket launchers, vehicular warfare and destruction everywhere should in theory be fun. Why then do the Transformers games suck so hard? Does this one suck just as much? Click to find out…
Indie Review: Altitude
Altitude, a flying game with a more-than-average gameplay. Join Tian as he explains another indie game and what it’s all about.
Need For Speed: The Run Gameplay Trailer Released [Video]
Here’s an interesting game, if only for the fact that it has been wholly criticised pretty much since it was announced. I for one have been on the sympathising side [...]
Worms: Ultimate Mayhem Announced
Team17 is back with yet another Worms game. The developer has finally officially announced Worms: Ultimate Mayhem after the game was outed by the Australian Classification Board in May. Ultimate [...]
Red Faction Gets Sucked Into A Black Hole
Not too long ago, Red Faction: Armageddon was released, which put a third-person shooter type twist in the age old franchise. Needless to say, the game did not sell well, [...]
Batman: Arkham City: Strange Happenings Afoot In These Audio Tapes
Apparently, there were 3 audio tapes for Batman: Arkham City hidden at E3 this year. They comprise of interviews between Prof. Hugo Strange and Joker, Riddler and Penguin respectively. They [...]
DRM Is Back With A Vengeance
It seemed that Ubisoft had taken a hint and realised that their always-on DRM system, which required a constant internet connection for PC versions of their games, was doing more [...]
Epic Games Wants More Memory In Next Gen Consoles
Epic Games, the creators of many really awesome things such as the Unreal Tournament series, the Gears of War series, Shadow Complex, Bulletstorm, and everyone’s favourite proprietary software, Unreal Engine [...]




