As you may have noticed from the flood of coverage online this week, Sony have unveiled the PlayStation 4. Or haven’t, in that we didn’t get to see the box itself. But we could argue over semantics all day. (We won’t.) They did show the new DualShock 4 controller, so let’s focus on that. I …
By quite some margin, this week is the best week of the year so far for new releases. Let’s not waste any time cracking on. Metal Gear Rising: Revengence and Crysis 3 are going head-to-head for your hard earned cash. We were a little apprehensive about Metal Gear Rising: Revengence given its troubled development, but …
Tonight at 11pm GMT Sony is holding a conference in New York, where everyone is expecting the unveiling of the PlayStation 4. The live video stream of the event followed by our live blog is below. Update: They did in fact announce the PlayStation 4, due for release this Christmas, as well as a bunch …
Most web-based mini-games are designed with one goal in mind: to promote full price titles. A lot of them are terrible, but there are a few exceptions perfectly suited for a quick play during a lunch break. Here’s a quick recap of the freebies found on Sony’s and Microsoft’s websites for all the office-bound bods …
If there’s one thing we pride ourselves on, it’s finishing a game before we review it. There have been a few exceptions over the years, such as 50+ hour RPGs like Dragon’s Dogma and Dark Souls, but in general we don’t write our reviews until we’ve seen the ending credits roll. If things went to …
Even with a universal mauling – expect for EGM’s rather suspicious 9.0 review – Aliens: Colonial Marines has become the UK’s new number one. Not only that, but it’s also the biggest release of the year so far. That means that it had a better launch than EA’s Dead Space 3 and Capcom’s DmC. We’re …
Usually when a format is on its last legs the release lists for it are full of licensed tat aimed at younger gamers and half-baked budget games. With this in mind it was a bit of a surprise when Sega announced Aliens: Infestation back in 2011. With WayForward at the helm, who were also working …
According to a poll in one of the red top newspapers, videogames are high on the list of things that women choose to buy for their partner on valentine’s day. Seeing as Aliens: Colonial Marines is the only retail release this week, we wouldn’t be surprised if a fair few loved up gamers are going …
Just in case you’ve been in cryogenic sleep since 1992, Alien 3 is the one where there was only one Xenomorph and not a great deal happened. The movie had a very difficult production and at one point was even being filmed without a finished script. This ultimately led it to it receiving very mixed …
If we were asked to name the movie series which has had the greatest influence over videogames as a whole, we wouldn’t hesitate to answer with the original Star Wars trilogy. Probe us a bit more and ask what film has had the greatest influence over the FPS genre, and that answer would be 1986’s …
Before Dead Space 3 launched last week EA seemed confident that it’s going to perform better than Dead Space 2, claiming that the demo has been downloaded over 2m times. Although it may do in the long run, it hasn’t broken Dead Space 2’s launch record with Chart Track claiming that sales are down 26.6%. …
Has there ever been a movie license more perfectly suited to a videogame adaptation than Aliens? The movie series has influenced countless games over the years, from its entire arsenal of sci-fi weaponry to the design of H.R. Giger’s Xenomorphs. Heck, a few games are even guilty of copying Aliens’ marine banter word for word. …
It’s ironic, really. Just as Microsoft announces that they’re ditching support for XNA, which pretty much puts another nail in the coffin for Xbox Live Indie Games, Canadian developer Firebase Industries goes and releases the ‘80s arcade management sim Arcadecraft. It’s a game that single-handedly demonstrates what Xbox Live Indie Games should be all about …
Last weekend news broke that the new issue of Game Informer magazine contains the first ever review of Dead Space 3, where it was awarded a 7.75. This turned out to be a massive filthy lie – they did in fact give it 9.75 and claimed it to be one of the best games of …
When Sega released Sonic the Hedgehog back in 1991, there’s no doubt that they knew they had a huge hit on their hands. Even though the ‘hog then arguably went on to to star in more bad games than good, the fan base has remained loyal and more than willing to spend vast sums on …
