Archive for category: News

/ February 22, 2012 2:24 pm

PS Vita launches today

It’s Vita launch day in Europe and America and the moment of truth for the handheld which has so far failed to impress in its native Japan. It boasts an impressive array of launch titles that seem to be skewing towards franchises that are popular in the West like Uncharted, Wipeout, Motorstorm, FIFA and Rayman. An Assassin’s Creed, Call of [...]

/ February 22, 2012 2:00 pm

Borderlands 2 trailer does my job for me.

Most game trailers these day are CG taken from the games story or pieces of gameplay that don’t really offer you an idea of what to expect from the game. Gearbox appear to have noticed this and have made their new Borderlands 2 trailer a bullet point list of new features interspersed with dubstep and shooting. While the first game [...]

/ February 22, 2012 12:53 pm

Game admits that it can no longer stock all titles

Embattled retailer Game have finally admitted that they are unable to stock all new games. After a few weeks of speculation that the chain would not be able to secure credit insurance anymore, Game have said that they are not currently able to stock Tekken: 3D Prime Edition and all of Ubisoft’s Vita launch title. Game has said that they [...]

/ February 21, 2012 11:04 pm

Mass Effect 3 DLC briefly leaks onto Xbox marketplace

Egg on face time for someone. The Mass Effect 3 DLC that we alreadythought was called “From Dust” was available for a short time on the Xbox Marketplace earlier on tonigh under the new moniker “From Ashes”.  It was going for 800 points but unfortunately showed a picture of something about the DLC that was pretty spoiler-ish. DO NOT SEEK [...]

/ February 21, 2012 8:43 pm

Spec Ops: The Line finally gets dated

Nothing says “quality narrative that raises difficult questions and is based on Heart of Darkness” more than multiplayer pre-order bonuses! Especially when you announce the date your often delayed game is coming out on. This is precisely what 2k have done by revealing that Spec-Ops: The Line will be coming out on the twenty-ninth of June. That puts the game [...]

/ February 21, 2012 4:15 pm

That Mass Effect 3 CG trailer in full

So that Mass Effect 3 trailer from Sunday night was pretty gorgeous right? It was also obviously cut from something larger than the T.V. friendly one and a half minute version and now we have our hands on the bigger version which clocks in at just over three. In short it shows Earth getting decimated by the Reapers, including some [...]

/ February 21, 2012 1:40 pm

Shootmania: Storm details finally out in the open

Announced way back in 2009 alongside Trackmania 2, Shootmania was pitched as Nadeo applying their “customise anything” approach to gaming to the arena-shooter genre. Since then there has been complete silence but Nadeo have finally loosened up and let us see what exactly is going on with this bizarre game. First off, Nadeo seem to have targeted the burgeoning E-sports [...]

/ February 21, 2012 12:46 pm

Day One studios continue the Mech resurgence

With Mech Warrior Online, Mech Warrior Tactics, Hawken, and Armoured Core V all on the way, the mech genre has gone from basically non-existent to springing back into life. Now the last developer to actually make a game set in the Battletech universe, Day 1 Studios, are throwing their hat back into the ring with Reign of Thunder. Like Mech [...]

/ February 21, 2012 12:25 pm

SSX demo on Xbox today, PS3 tomorrow

An SSX demo has just gone up on the Xbox 360 and will be available tomorrow on the SEN/PSN. It will allow you to race in the California Rockies while a trick course set in New Zealand will also be on offer. The demo is fully online enabled but you do need to have an Origin account (or your old [...]

/ February 20, 2012 2:02 pm

Play as an even younger Rory McIlroy in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13

At twenty-two Rory McIlroy has won the US Open, represented Europe at the Ryder Cup, and came agonisingly close to winning the U.S. Masters at Augusta last year. Suffice to say, I am pretty jealous because at twenty-two I was working on a golf course rather than playing on one. I also wasn’t going out with Caroline Wozniaki so there’s [...]