Archive for March, 2012

Borderlands 2 PC Won’t Make You Rage

A lot of people really, really liked the first Borderlands but took issue with the PC version which didn’t quite stack up to its console counterparts. However, Gearbox, or at [...]

Tody’s Take: Have Gamers’ Standards Lowered, Or Are We More Casual?

There we go, strike three of my headline controversy. That rhymed, it was unintentional. So, this time around I’m not focusing on any particular game, like I did with my [...]

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Vita Review: Rayman Origins

Last year was very good to gamers. With titles such as Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Batman: Arkham City, Portal 2 and more, gamers were really spoiled for choice when it [...]

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F1 2012 Will Release In September

Codemasters has announced the release date for F1 2012, the Formula One racing game which will be available on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The 2012 version of the [...]

Medal Of Honor Dev Would Like To Avoid The Call Of Duty Fight

Greg Goodrich, the executive producer for Medal of Honor: Warfighter wants to avoid negative publicity. Goodrich noted that he’d like to refrain from the usual fight between Call of Duty [...]

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One And One Story: The Indie Game That Was Stolen

A horrible truth has been revealed: people steal games. And I don’t mean theft of a hard copy game. I mean, people steal the actual code for the game where [...]

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An Indie Royale “St.Patrick’s Day Bundle”

As you’re no doubt aware by now, we at eGamer like to notify you when certain Indie groups are offering indie bundle specials. We know you love indie games, cheap [...]

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Competition Winners: FIFA Street

This past week we ran a competition where you could win FIFA Street on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. All you needed to do was fill in a simple little [...]

GSC Confirms That S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Is Still In Development, But There’s No Date Yet

GSC Game World has once again reassured fans that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is still in development. But, there’s no release date yet, and GSC can’t tell us when it will be [...]

Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition Revealed

The mysterious countdown on the Baldur’s Gate teaser website finally came to an end yesterday, revealing something that fans weren’t quite expecting, but welcomed none the less. Introducing Baldur’s Gate: [...]

Max Payne 3: Move From Cutscene To Gunplay

Cinematics and gameplay in a game. Obvious? No, not like you think. Max Payne 3 will combine itself with cinematics in such a way that you’ll need to be ready, [...]

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Review: The House Of The Dead III

I was asked to review The House Of The Dead III and with fond memories I remembered the days of old school light gun games on the PS2 like Time [...]

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Match The Song To A Game — Learning How To Steal Ice-Cream

Lately, games in general have fallen in love with Dub-Step. It’s literally everywhere nowadays, from the awesome soundtrack for Syndicate, to Assassin’s Creed trailers. One person who isn’t a stranger [...]

Dead Or Alive 5 Trailer Shows Off… Exactly What You’d Expect

Team Ninja have released a new trailer for Dead or Alive 5 that pits Ayane and Hitomi against each other. That’s not entirely important, though. What is important, at least [...]

A Gamer’s Perspective — Third Dimension African Politics

Given that you’re reading this column via the internet, I feel relatively safe in assuming you’ve heard a thing or two about either Joseph Kony, Kony 2012 or Invisible Children, [...]

Could We Be Getting An Elder Scrolls MMO?

Following the massive success that was The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (despite its many glaring faults), could Bethesda’s next project be more on the multiplayer side of things? Maybe, Massive [...]

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There Actually Was A Mass Effect FPS

Well look what we have here. It’s been let out into the open that BioWare’s Montreal studio was working on a spin-off first person shooter set in the Mass Effect [...]

Ratchet & Clank Trilogy HD Collection Confirmed

There have been plenty of rumours about this, but now Sony has finally confirmed that there is actually an HD collection on the way featuring the Ratchet & Clank Trilogy. [...]

Skyrim Patch 1.5 Introduces Kill Cams And More

Get ready, everyone who’s still playing Skyrim. All four of you. Bethesda has just detailed their next major update — salute — for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. This one’s [...]

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Indie Review: I Am Alive

Originally planned for a full retail release until it was decided that a shorter, smaller, downloadable game would be more appropriate; I Am Alive finally arrives for download. So was [...]

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Diablo 3 Release Date Announced!

Blizzard Entertainment has announced the release date for Diablo 3. For real. It’s finally here! The game which has been delayed, and in development for years, will finally reach us. [...]

Four New Max Payne 3 Screens Out

Rockstar has sent out four new screenshots for the upcoming Max Payne 3, each showing the title character curiously looking different, but still shooting stuff. I’m still skeptical about this [...]

PlayStation and iPhone Hacker Arrested For Drug Possession

George Hotz, the man who was sued by Sony for hacking the Playstation 3 and the first person to hack the iPhone, has finally been caught by the long arm [...]

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Watch All The Endings For Mass Effect 3 [Spoilers!]

There has been tremendous fuss regarding Mass Effect 3 and the various endings. If you’re like me and don’t care about the ending, or what happens, then these videos are [...]

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Hands-On: Diablo III

As the title of this particular piece of literature might suggest this is a hands on preview for Diablo 3. Since this is possibly one of the most anticipated games… [...]

DiRT Showdown Looks Destructively Productive

If there’s one thing that Americans love more than NASCAR, country ‘n western, guns, dead terrorists, McDonald’s, their siblings and belittling the rest of the world it’s demolition derby’s – [...]

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Sega Shakes Hands With The Devil Origin

Bit of a sensationalist headline but who cares because aliens! Right? Just kidding EA, I still love you. Sega has joined a whole list of others in allying themselves with [...]

Playing With The Past

The controller balances on my knee. The familiar rolling action across the arrow keys powers up. The timing is right. A punch from at least 10 years ago lands perfectly. [...]

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Baldur’s Gate Announcement Gets A Countdown

It wasn’t long ago that a website teasing the return of Baldur’s Gate was discovered, leading to many hoping that the RPG that spawned Dragon Age was finally going to [...]

Anyone Up 4 More Killzone?

No, you’re not in New Zealand where the above kind of language is acceptable (even in an exam) although if you are, my condolences. If you don’t grow giddy at [...]

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