If you like old things repackaged as shiny new things, then Nintendo loves you in your private game bits. High on the success of their plan to release ancient Gamecube titles as new Wii games by slapping the phrase NEW PLAY CONTROL! on the front of the box, those clever sprockets have… done the same thing [...]
Assassin’s Creed. Sigh.
It really could have been a great game. Really. The idea of being a trained assassin in the Holy Land circa 12th Century practically hypes itself. I even liked the silly science fiction madness that framed the whole thing.
Unfortunately the game is best described as a flawed diamond. Or a very pretty piece [...]
Tetris has reached its mid-twenties. Recently the innocuous little puzzler reached its quarter-century anniversary to a level of fanfare appropriate to a block stacking exercise.
It was, of course, the introduction to gaming for a lot of people, and spawned a endless load of copies, rip-offs, pointless sequels, cosplay and a gameshow craze. Not bad for [...]
Recently, on the topic of second-hand video game sales and the apparently epic danger they pose to the future of the industry, talking to Venture Beat, Nintendo America boss-man Reggie Fils-Aime noted that the company does not believe used games are “in the best interest of the consumer”. I’m sure what he meant to say was the [...]
OnLive is apparently “THE FUTURE OF VIDEOGAMES”, or so its website tells us. Sadly, there is no Nobel Prize for hyperbole.
OnLive is, in reality, a device which streams video games directly to you, similar to what YouTube does with videos. In theory (motif) it means that the console is obsolete, as you can just buy [...]
Jonanthan Knight is either a consumate professional or an idiot.
He’s the executive producer (and creative director) of a game you may have heard buzz about by the name of Dante’s Inferno. More likely you have heard of the poetic version (I hear it isn’t very faithful to the game). The game is a reimagining of [...]
You have to wonder how far Nintendo can push gamers.
The Wii Motion Plus accessory (for the Wii, obviously) is being released soon. June 11th is the official release date for the doodad, which improves the motion-sensing capabilities of the Wiimote via the use of sexy objects like gyroscopes. Footage of the device in action has [...]
Something must be in the air. Game-related controversies had been at an all time low until recently, probably owing a lot to the absence of everyone’s favourite mouth-frothing conservative lunatic, Jack Thompson, who was silenced (mostly) after being caught doing lines of coke off the back of a dead hooker*. But just recently there has [...]
Duke Nukem Forever is finally dead. Probably forever. Maybe.
In 1997, 3D Realms announced a sequel to Duke Nukem 3D - a game which artfully combined shooting alien pigs with throwing money at sexy bitches. What followed was a ridiculous sequence of bugger all, with the game subjected to endless delays and constant mumblings from the [...]