Jul 25, 2010

Your weapons? They seem to be but a musty tome and quill, but know that their power is far stronger than the armies of the Scourge, far craftier than the zerg Swarm, and far mightier than the Burning Hells. Ready your tools, scribe, and prepare for combat with the inky beast called fiction! That’s the introduction to Blizzard’s 2010 Global Writing...

Jul 24, 2010

Irrational Games, those dark and devious developers behind Bioshock and System Shock seem to be brewing up a media event. While there are no swathing gaps in their release schedule it seems they want all and sundry to be on their toes for the 11th August. We will provide a followup to their announcement. While you are waiting, why not check out their fantastic...

Jul 24, 2010

There are some quality newspaper publications in the UK. The Daily Star isn’t one of them. And thanks to the claims they made last week about game publisher Rockstar producing a new Grand Theft Auto game based upon the Raoul Moat manhunt, what little credibility they did had is now in doubt. Well – when it comes to gamers, anyway. Today the Star...

Jul 14, 2010

Eurogamer have today confirmed Sony’s line-up for the Expo, taking place in Earl’s Court in October. Attendees of the event will get to play Gran Turismo 5, inFamous 2, Killzone 3, LittleBigPlanet 2, MotorStorm Apocalypse and SOCOM: Special Forces. And if you’re still unconvinced, they will also have the Playstation Move, along with some of...

Jun 16, 2010

Despite a butt load of technological problems, and a wait that was just the teeniest bit too long to be kind, we finally got to see the teaser trailer for Silent Hill 6 at the Konami Press Conference at E3. So what do we have? Well, not much. A prisoner. Escaped. In the woods. A female cop. Some blurry bad guys. The Welcome to Silent Hill sign. A creepy kid and...

Jun 16, 2010

Destructoid have shared with us the box, ahem, “art” for the up and coming Playstation Move PAL release and yes, it is just as awesome as one would expect for what is essentially a plastic ball on the end of a stick. (Click here to see the image in it’s full glory.) We also now have an entry retail price. Due to go on sale from mid-September,...

Jun 16, 2010

Over the last couple of days Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, EA and Capcom have all shown what they’ve got in store for us budding gamers in the press conferences. There have been high points of sheer surprise and joy, and low points of disappointment and shame. So here are MY personal highlights so, let’s break it down… It’s very hard for me...

Jun 14, 2010

It’s been about a year since we first saw the weird little black box appear in the Microsoft press conference in 2009. So a year later we expect to see a whole host of changes to Project Natal, the first of which seems to be a rename. Yes, Project Natal has been newly labelled Kinect (pronounced ‘connect‘). This comes just in time for...