Popular PS2 emulator PCSX2 has had a major update to version 0.9.7 at the end of last month (yeah I’ve known about this a week or so). PCSX2 allows you to play your PS2 games on your PC, and if your PC is up to the task it’ll let you run them in HD with… Continue reading PCSX2 gets a 2010 revamp
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The Humble Indie Bundle
I know we haven’t updated for a while due to time constraints on all of us here but I felt that this deserved sharing. Indie game dev Wolfire has teamed up with other popular indie devs to bring you The Humble Indie Bundle, a group of five indie games, World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru… Continue reading The Humble Indie Bundle
Bit-Tech look at UK Game Industry
This week British online mag Bit-Tech are doing ‘Made in the UK Week’, a week long look at the UK game industry over the past 40 years and its various stars. It’s currently on day two (well Day three most likely now) and have 2 articles for you to catch up on.
Crysis 2 Teaser Site Stars a Countdown
‘SOS New York’ recently cropped up and sports a lovely picture of Nomad with a count down, currently at just shy of 3 days. I’m not really sure of what it’s counting down to, most likely a trailer. However the title of the site does suggest this could be the start of an ARG, which… Continue reading Crysis 2 Teaser Site Stars a Countdown
The Robust ModNation Racers Character Creator
Gaming site GamesRadar has filtered through the piles of shit to find these incredibly well done renditions of video game characters, new and old, and compile them on their site. Even if your not interested in the game itself, you should at least take a look at these, just to see what kinds of crazy… Continue reading The Robust ModNation Racers Character Creator
GoG Passes on The Holiday Cheer
In a kind holiday gesture the folks behind Good Old Games are giving away a bundle of Tex Murphy 1 and 2, in all their 256 colour glory, for the low low price of free! Can’t say I’ve ever heard of either as they were released in 1989 and 1991 respectively but according to Wikipedia you… Continue reading GoG Passes on The Holiday Cheer
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
“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
GT Academy 2010 Revs its Engines
Starting December 17th Polyphony Digital, Sony and Nissan invite GT fans to see if they have what it takes to be the best in the GT Academy 2010 Contest. The Official Facebook page says “Test your racing skills to the limit and swap your sofa for a real race car with PlayStation and Nissan in… Continue reading GT Academy 2010 Revs its Engines
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
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