Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game
Scott Pilgrim is dating Ramona Flowers – but before he can claim her as his true love, he must fight his way past Ramona’s 7 Evil Exes! Based on the cult hit comic book series and out just in time for the blockbuster movie adaptation, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is a 2D sidescroller jam packed with retro gaming throwbacks, from River City Ransom to Mega Man. Is this retro homage gaming glory or a worthless tie in?
Doctor Who Adventure Games Episode 3 announced
The BBC have revealed details for the third entry in its Doctor Who Adventure Game series, which will allow players to pilot the controls of The Doctor’s legendary timeship for the very first time.
Gamescom hands-on – Kinect
Right down the south entrance of the Cologne Exhibition Centre, Hall 8 featured many of the big names of the gaming industry. Wasting no time before the masses arrived, I visited the first area that crossed my line of sight, the Microsoft Kinect booth. I should say booths, actually – the company’s area included several wide-open stands, but also included some dozen half-closed booths. My interest was on Kinect Sports, but not wanting to waste any time, I went with the next free booth, which just so happened to be [...]
Final Fantasy XI Players Get Perks in Final Fantasy XIV [update]
Making a sequel to an MMO is always hard, even harder is migrating your old player base to the new game. Square-Enix are attempting to make the choice to move on a smooth one for current players of Final Fantasy XI by introducing a few deals and offers exclusive to them.
Why Do Video Game Movies Get Made?
If you’ve ever wondered why hollywood carries on creating massacres of your favourite video games, this chart explains it in pretty easy to understand bar charts. Bare bones is they may be bad, they may be critically panned, but the important thing is, they make money. Uwe Boll is the odd one out but you can find out more on why he continues to makes films here. Original @ Flickr
Minecraft Alpha Impressions
Minecraft is a curious PC game developed by the lone developer ‘Notch’. At it’s core it’s a game of building, mining and crafting. It escapes definition for any particular genre other than ‘open world’ and is very much a game of what you make of it, literally. And as I recently took the plunge in buying myself into the current alpha I thought I’d take the plunge with a little write up on it.
Football Manager 2011 Announced: Volley of New Features Added
Sports Interactive yesterday unveiled and announced Football Manager, the next yearly installment of their hugely successful franchise. Initially to be launched on PC, Mac and PSP, Studio Director Miles Jacobson was on YouTube to give us a quick rundown of a few new features and tweaks we con come to expect from the game, all of which you can read or watch after the jump.
You jumped into a sword: The Case for Difficulty.
This is partly a response to Brent Powell’s article “The Illusion of Challenge” and partly a open letter of sorts to anyone who is willing to listen. There is a trend in the gaming media of bashing games with any kind of learning curve. If a game requires the player to try and fail a few times before they understand the mechanics, the gaming media will most often label it as “too hard” for the average gamer. One of the common arguments for this kind of behaviour is that games [...]
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light hits Steam and PS3 September 28th, DLC planned
Just a few weeks before the ‘Exclusive’ Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light hits the Xbox Live Marketplace, Crystal Dynamics have announced that the co-op shooter will also be making its way to PS3 and Steam next month.
Review: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Twelve years ago Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft took the then-fledgling real time strategy genre by storm with it’s fast and highly tactical combat. It was the first real-time strategy game to feature three completely different races with unique gameplay styles. Though initially horribly unbalanced, copious patching and a great expansion eventually helped it evolve into the longstanding benchmark for traditional real-time strategy games as well as the definitive e-sport rts. With StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Blizzard is attempting to not only create a sequel for the StarCraft multiplayer fanatics, but [...]
Friday Freeloader: Dragon Age Journeys
Before Dragon Age: Origins there was Dragon Age: Journeys. A highly polished 2D flash game from a new addition to the EA family; EA2D. Made as both an introduction to the Dragon Age lore and as a marketing tool Dragon Age: Journeys is a flash game well worth giving a shot. It has a lovely bonus in giving you items for use in Dragon Ag: Origins too.
Elemental: War of Magic Gameplay Videos Pop up
Elemental: War of Magic is an ambitious RPG/TBS game from Stardock due 24th August. Elemental draws upon Stardocks past experience of 4X titles, like it’s cult hit Sins of a Solar Empire, and combines them with an RPG flair all hinged down with their new Impulse Reactor multiplayer service. Elemental looks to provide a very polished and unique experience this summer.
Paradox CEO: Lead and Gold XBLA port canned
Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox Interactive, has confirmed that the Xbox LIVE Arcade port of the team based western shooter Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West has been cancelled.
Friday Freeloader: Warsow
Warsow is the star of this weeks Friday Freeloader. It’s a simple twitch-based online FPS with all your standard multi-player FPS game modes with a nice variety of weapons and a great visual style. If you’re burned out on your Modern Warfare’s and Battlefields and want something to spice up your shooter routine then Warsow is the game for you.
New Multiplayer Characters for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
Ubisoft have revealed two more characters in the lineup for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood’s multiplayer component: The Soldier and The Blacksmith.
