Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten Review
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011Disgaea 4 delivers everything you could ask for, but is the series style still relevant?
2 CommentsFallout: New Vegas – Lonesome Road Review
Monday, September 26th, 2011Is this road worth taking?
3 Comments‘Uncharted’ Inspired Towards Realism By “Gritty Shooters”
Monday, September 26th, 2011Turns out gray-and-brown fragfests are good for something after all. In a recent interview with NowGamer, Don Poole, former environment designer at Naughty Dog, explained how the first Uncharted was originally designed under a more fantasy-based motif before Sony made the executive decision to bend more towards the emerging trend of more “gritty shooters”.
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Monday, September 26th, 2011The studio that once took up the Guitar Hero mantle now appears to be in development on a first person shooter. Eurogamer has reported (via Gamerzines) several job listings – ranging from level designers to platform lead engineers – over at the studio’s website asking for talent to work on their “new FPS”. The Tony [...]
Comments OffTrain Simulator 2012 Video Review
Friday, September 23rd, 2011A whole different kind of escapism.
2 CommentsRed Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad Review
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011World War II done right
2 CommentsElder-Geek Game Club #7 – Ikaruga
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011This time on the Game Club we played Ikaruga, were our opinions Black and White or varying shades of Grey? Only one way to find out…
8 CommentsVita Works Ad-Hoc With PSP, Sony Considering UMD Conversion
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011Looks like Vita owners won’t have to suffer too much for being first adopters. Siliconera discovered a publication on the Japanese Playstation website announcing local multiplayer functionality between the Playstation Vita and Portable. Ad-Hoc multiplayer, will not a big hit in the West, is a defining feature in Japan, where Monster Hunter regularly rules the [...]
5 CommentsViacom Brings Ex-Harmonix Shareholders to Court for Refund
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011Over $150 million hangs in the balance in the aftermath of MTV’s selling off of Harmonix earlier this year. MTV’s parent company Viacom has taken the former shareholders of the Rock Band studio to court over a refund of the bonus payments given out at Harmonix’s initial acquisition. Viacom is asking for $131,827,980 of the [...]
1 Comment‘Angry Birds’ Dev Begins Indie Publishing Department
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011$70 million could publish a lot of independent game projects. That’s the kind of money Angry Birds developer Rovio Mobile has to throw around, and they have apparently been approaching other studios with indie mobile projects in need of funding. The report by Develop was circumvented by Rovio’s spokesman when asked, but the representative did [...]
Comments Off‘Homefront 2′ In Development at Crytek UK
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011THQ recently announced that the sequel to Kaos Studios’ pulp shooter Homefront is currently in production at Crytek UK. Formerly known as Free Radical, the home of Timesplitters and Second Sight is using the Cry Engine 3 to bring a new chapter to the franchise sometime in THQ’s 2014 fiscal year. Crytek UK took the [...]
1 Comment‘Deus Ex: Human Revolution’ Boss Fights Designed Outside of Eidos
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9YbSkOW7sU[/youtube] One of the chief complaints held against Square Enix’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution was its boss fights, the consensus being the segments forced a specific style of play in a game boasting a variety of balanced gameplay tactics. Turns out, they felt out of place for a reason, as some footage from the game’s [...]
1 CommentSonic To Run the 2011 Rebel Sport Challenge
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011Sega has announced that Sonic the Hedgehog will be a participant in the upcoming Rebel Sport Run4Fun charity event, a benefit for the Sydney Children’s Foundation. The goal is to raise $5,000 (AUD) for the charity, which is the main funding block for the Sydney Children’s Hospital in Randwick, in time for the event. At [...]
Comments OffRosewill RK-9000 Mechanical Keyboard Review
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011For our first of hopefully many hardware reviews, we put Rosewill’s RK-9000 through the gauntlet.
6 CommentsFootage of Cancelled ‘Avengers’ Game Surfaces
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011Turns out, THQ had to cancel more than just Red Faction to make up for a bad quarter. Some footage of a first-person action game set in the “Avengers” movie universe, once under production at THQ Australia, leaked over the weekend. The trailer – since removed from its original perch on Youtube – can be [...]
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