Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Tarryn van der Byl
Harmonix is developing Rock Band 3! Nope, no surprises there. Confirmation came through a Facebook update last night, with the following statement ...
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Friday, 05 March 2010
Tarryn van der Byl
Industry icon Ron Gilbert (The Secret of Monkey Island) and Hothead Games have been working on action RPG Deathspank for ages now, but it looks like the project has finally secured publishing, with EA chucking cash at them for the rights ...
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Friday, 05 March 2010
Tarryn van der Byl
Earlier this week Activision fired Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella for "breaches of contract and insubordination". They sent bouncers and everything ...
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Monday, 01 March 2010
Henry Dowling
These days if you were to mention the divine comedy, the majority of youths would think of something with Will Ferrell in it. There is also an assumption that an epic poem kicks off with a line like "there once was a man from Nantucket". With that in mind, one might consider developer Visceral Games quite brave for creating this hell-fest, based on the first part of possibly the most epic of epic poems, The Divine Comedy by Italian poet Dante Alighieri. This third-person hack 'n slasher may blatantly borrow gameplay mechanics and styles from other renowned franchises, but the final result is a ghastly yet enthralling vision of one man's quest through the depths of Hell ...
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Tuesday, 09 February 2010
Henry Dowling
EA has revealed that the hugely popular life-sim, The Sims 3, is coming to consoles at the end of the year, according to the publishing giant's recent earnings report ...
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Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Terrance Brown
With games aiming to provide a more cerebral experience these days, with deeper storylines and ever more complicated gameplay systems, it's all the more harder to come across a game that is as simple at its core as Army of Two: The 40th Day. Whereas many other games give you back stories that are worthy of epic literature and characters that are well rounded and fleshed out, Army of Two gives you two stereotypical jock mercenaries fighting their way through the streets of Shanghai without even telling you who or why they're fighting until 5 minutes from the end of the game. The important thing is that it doesn't detract at all from the game's fun factor and in fact adds to its sense of cheesy, action packed atmosphere that the game is looking to evoke ...
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Tarryn van der Byl
FIFA! 2010! World Cup! South Africa! It's all happening here, of course, and it's all happening in EA's annual franchise now too, with FIFA featuring its first ever full World Cup online tournament mode. Here's the official press stuff ...
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Thursday, 21 January 2010
Henry Dowling
Electronic Arts officially revealed today that the Tiger Woods franchise will continue, with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 to be released in June this year on multiple consoles, a move which might surprise some in light of his current... domestic drama ...
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Henry Dowling
World War II is just about the most overused setting in the gaming world. I've despatched a near infinite number of Nazis in my day, rescued countless innocent villagers from the Third Reich, and been a proverbial thorn in the side of Hitler's Germany more times than I care to mention. With that in mind, it is especially surprising that The Saboteur is not just a captivating action game, but a genuinely interesting take on the subject matter ...
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Thursday, 17 December 2009
Terrance Brown
Valve must have been somewhat surprised by the success of the first Left 4 Dead game. After all, it was real short and was more a labour of love than a fully fledged retail release. A year later and the sequel, Left 4 Dead 2, is already on our shelves. So, with such a short development time, do the improvements warrant our hard earned cash once again? In short... Yes ...
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