Happy Birthday XBox

Today Microsoft celebrate the 10th birthday of the release of the XBox in Europe. As I understand the American birthday was sometime last November. This celebrates the launch of the original big black XBox on the 15th of November in North America and the 14th of March in Europe. If you head on over to […]

Mass Effect 3 – Issues and Success

The recent release of Mass Effect 3 has been met with a some success and some issues for the team at Bioware. There have been complaints about the From Ashes DLC which was released on the same day as the full game itself, there has been issues with transferring save files but despite this Bioware […]

Scrolls Finally Sorted

You may recall from a while back that Bethesda were suing Notch and Mojang over the fact that Notch was intending to call his new game “Scrolls”. Bethesda believed that the name Scrolls was too similar to their own Elder Scrolls series and were worried that us foolish plebs wouldn’t be able to tell the […]

Diablo 3 to launch with no PvP

Lead designer of upcoming Diablo 3, Jay Wilson, has officially announced, with the full might of Blizzard behind him that Diablo 3 will be releasing without it’s Player versus Player mode. He said that essentially it was not working to the standards that they had set themselves and that delaying the game purely for the […]

Salem – A response to MMO Burnout

Dear Nick, I understand that you are worried about your future relationships with MMO’s. Will they be the long-lasting and fulfilling relationship we all seek with our games. A relationship I fully intend to have with Guild Wars 2 but of which you despair of ever finding again. Well, I have here for you a […]

Tribes: Ascend release date announced

The completely free-to-play and awesome to look at Tribes: Ascend will be “ascending” from beta to full game (did you see what I did there?) on the 12th of April says the developers, Hi-Rez studios. Apparently over 400,000people played on the open beta and so it’s a fair guess that if you are reading this […]

Mass Effect 3 came out yesterday

Paradox reveal three new games

Our lovely friends at Paradox have unveiled a trio of games which they will be sending our way all of them remarkably different and interesting. The reason for the sudden revealing of three games all at once is due to the GDC (Games Developer’s Conference) where gaming news and reveals abound.

Medal of Battlefield: Modern Warfighter trailer

*Insert clever but rather jaded jokes about similarity of all first person shooter war games here* That said, the trailer for Medal of Honour: Warfighter does look pretty damn cool. It’s all dark and shadowy and suggests to me a game that will not only have it’s massive shooting and explosive sections but also tactical […]

Doom 4 Leaked Art and Rumours

Once again it seems that there were recently rumours that ID Software had cancelled Doom 4. This was coupled with the leaking of, I understand hundreds, of concept art, pictures and graphics all supposedly of Doom 4. Now you might have already heard about either one of these (the leak or the rumours) and wonder […]