Travellers Tales, creator of the popular Lego games, has stated that “[Natal is] exceedingly clever, but the lag on the input and lack of physical buttons is really going to restrict the kind of games that can be done with it,”. Jon Burton went on to say “Sony’s solution will be cheap, accurate and will… Continue reading Natal Plagued by Input Lag Issues?
Author: Dean Bowes
Founder of the site. Based in Britian I'm primarily a PC gamer, looking to spread my wings to the best the games industry has to offer.
Final Fantasy XIV Beta Announced
Square Enix are looking for beta participants for the PC version of there upcoming MMORPG FFXIV. This seems to be the real deal for beta testing, not one of those ‘demo-named-beta for pre-orders’ type things you get recently. As you’ve no doubt worked out the beta would give you the chance to get a sneek peak… Continue reading Final Fantasy XIV Beta Announced
WAR!!!
As hinted ‘Friendship Ends in One Day’, and now its come down to War! Click the links to be whisked away to one of two pages each containing a heartfelt rally to war on each opposing side. Each class will be receiving the 3 new weapons. But each class has a chance to unlock a… Continue reading WAR!!!
“Videogame Minimalism”
InfinteContinues has posted a Flickr collection of well known and loved videogame characters broken down to their simple geometric shapes. If you ask me this is quiet a cool way to show which characters are truly iconic, even in a raw form you can still easily identify them. Also makes for some pretty neat avatars.… Continue reading “Videogame Minimalism”
Merry Crystmas
Just got an email in my inbox alerting me to a Crysis Wars trail period coming around. Those of you familiar with Steams weekends these work in much the same way. Sign up at MyCrysis , Then when 19th comes around you have 10 days to hop in and play Crysis Wars, the multiplayer component of Crysis,… Continue reading Merry Crystmas
Friendship Ends in One Day
Yesterdays TF2 update added some mysterious new sound bites to the Administrator. Mostly concerning friends it set the internet ablaze with speculation on what it all means. Many guessed that it was to do with Steam Friends playing on your side, with our only hint being to listen to who these sound bites are yelled at. Well the TF2blog has updated with a new… Continue reading Friendship Ends in One Day
No Tax Breaks for UK Games Industry
Today was The Budget, for our international readers that’s the day when the Treasurer pops out with a red briefcase and tells us how poor we are, how we are going to spend money we don’t have to pay of our deficit, and how he plans on raising that money(taxes!)
Umbrella Umbrella
Capcom Store is offering the very original Umbrella Corp Umbrella with the purchase of Resident Evil: Zero for the Wii. The game is set before the original Resident Evil and sees you fighting off the usual bunch of zombies and co. With the acclaim the Wii version of RE4 got this could be a solid… Continue reading Umbrella Umbrella
The Changing Face of Christmas Gaming
With vidoegames becoming a social norm is it taking over Christmas, and is this a good or bad thing? Back when I was a wee little lad the traditional thing to do after the giant Christmas feast was to roll into the lounge and get out a board game. Usually this would be one you’ve… Continue reading The Changing Face of Christmas Gaming
France court deems R4 & Co legal
In a landmark case for homebrew carts and similar hacks the French high courts today ruled in favour of flash carts. Nintendo had taken action against Divineo for supplying the carts, but the Paris courts instead called Nintendo’s actions restrictive to developers. They suggested that developers should be free to develop games for consoles, whether… Continue reading France court deems R4 & Co legal
Epic add Epic Amount of Tutorials
Last month Epic released the Unreal UDK for free. A kit that should allow budding bedroom game designers to build their own games using the massively popular Unreal middleware behind such games as Gears of War, Mass Effect and of course Unreal Tournament. Now a month later They’ve uploaded over 160 tutorial videos showing how… Continue reading Epic add Epic Amount of Tutorials
Google Zeitgeist – Video Games
The 2009 Google Zeitgeist is out. Googles list of the highest rising and most searched for terms of the past year. The Video Games section proves rather interesting. Video Games ghostbuster ufc saw bakugan batman arkham asylum twilight fifa 2010 modern warfare transformers 2 resident evil 5 I have to say, well it’s different to what I would of expected. Saw… Continue reading Google Zeitgeist – Video Games
IMFDB – IMDB for Guns
International Movie Firearms database covers guns from Films, TV, games and anime. It’s a Wiki layout, and very easy to search through categories to find what you want. Obviously we’re most interested in the guns featured in games. It has a rather large selection of games. From as far back as Doom to as recent as Modern Warfare 2. It unfortunately doesn’t cover made up weapons, so… Continue reading IMFDB – IMDB for Guns
Welcome to Press X or Die
Blog Launch! So here we are. A couple of weeks of natter and we have the launch of our blog. A day that will go down in history. Maybe. So, need to get the ball rolling, get those on board who were part of pre-launch, maybe re-jigger themes n widgets (which I must say Wordpress has some very… Continue reading Welcome to Press X or Die