THQ has announced that it is bringing 4 brand new original titles to the Xbox Live Arcade. These titles are SpongeBob (originality debatable), Screwjumper, Elements of Desctruction and Rocket Riot. The only one that THQ gave us information about was Screwjumper. destroying mining equipment in a freefall environment so that leaves us all in the dark but we know it has …
One of my regular readers, Andre Odendaal (Mailowl), emailed me this article that he wrote which I completely agree with. Take a look and let Andre know what you think. I believe game reviewers and critics are not being objective (and even subjective) enough in reviewing today’s games and they are just giving every new game that comes along their highest …
As you know I love competitions and I saw another great one today being offered by Kalahari.net. They are currently offering you the chance to win 8 new PS3 games. Obviously there is a catch and the only way to enter is to buy one of the 8 games. But if you were looking at any of the following you …
The latest in the Unreal Tournament marketing drive is out, it’s a very nice trailer giving a bit of the story away and showing us some great visuals… Seriously though how did Marcus Fenix get into this game, you think they would have used a different model for the main hero… again. The cut scenes look very much like Gears …
In one of the best marketing moves of the year Gran Turismo 5 will feature the track from the popular TV series Top Gear in it. If you are a fan of the show then you know all about “The Stig” and you can’t honestly tell me that you wouldn’t want to have a go at beating his times around …
I think it is about time that whoever is in charge of PS3 development at Midway starts looking for a new job. Yet another story has hit the internet today claiming that Blacksite on the PS3 is still being plagued with development troubles. Midway are blaming it on the Unreal Engine, which is the same excuse they used for Stranglehold and …
It’s Thursday (well nearly) and after the terrible PS3 news day we had yesterday I am glad to be starting today off with something completely un-PS3 related. Hopefully the Nintendo fans will be insulting me today instead of the PS3 fans, I have always liked change 😉 Seriously though once again we have Yahtzee giving us his strange but generally …
The latest sales data is in for the US and not much has changed since last week. Hardware Xbox 360 – 126,589Wii – 117,671PS3 – 23,405 SoftwareXbox 360 – 747,570Wii – 442,185PS3 – 172,486 I am sure all the PS3 fans are hoping the latest price cuts will make a difference to these figures next week, but at least they still …
Gamespot has had the opportunity to review Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Desctruction and has some mixed feelings about the game. Getting straight to the point the good parts of the game are Shooting and platforming is always fun Lots of useful and different weapons Beautiful and colourful visuals Tight Controls The bad parts would be Uninteresting story Bad ending Game …
Sony Corp said on Thursday that it had agreed to sell its production facilities for the powerful computer chip at the heart of its struggling Playstation 3 game console to rival Toshiba Corp. The deal, reportedly worth over $1-billion, is part of Sony’s efforts to refocus on its core electronics business and staunch losses from the PS3 in the face …
I just received another press release from Microsoft and they have finally confirmed the arrival of the Xbox 360 Arcade in South Africa. This should be available to buy from this Friday and is basically the core model with a wireless controller, 256Mb memory card and 5 Arcade games bundled in. The games are PAC-MAN Championship Edition,? (NAMCO BANDAI Games), ?Uno,? ?Luxor …
I don’t understand how Rockstar has managed to do this with a straight face. The company that continues to bring us Grand Theft Auto and all of the parodies contained within has complained legally to EA about the Simpsons parody of GTA called Grand Theft Scratchy. When I first heard it I thought it was going to be another lawyer jumping …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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