Well, I’ve been checking out the Prologue for King Arthur II by Paradox Interactive & Neocore Games, so now I think I have some idea. In short, the game is very much a Total War style of game, with lots of storytelling and decision-making elements thrown in for good measure. I must admit, I’m not the most ardent fan of [...]
Now that we’ve all had time to get used to the new Xbox Dashboard, Microsoft are running another survey to find out what you think of Xbox Live and the new features. One lucky entrant will win £200 worth of Amazon.co.uk vouchers. Worth a punt, I reckon. Here’s the Xbox survey. Complete it by 5th Feb to be entered into [...]
ArenaNet shared an update on the 2012 release of Guild Wars 2, promising to “usher out old thinking – the tired old quest model, stiff repetitive combat, and monthly fees – and usher in the new.” I’m excited at the prospect of innovation in quest models but who’ll collect ten bits of generic animal for random strangers now? March / April [...]
Following on the heels of Pippa’s annoyance at Order Up!! and its shameless in-app purchasing model, I’ve read a very interesting post from Spry Fox LLC’s game designer Daniel Cook on Google+. In it he explains why they’ve decided not to go with the traditional 99¢ sales model and instead are pursuing the free-to-play route. “There’s a specific revenue graph [...]
Video game records. Do you care? Are they interesting? I genuinely want to know. The Gamers’ Edition of the Guinness Book of World Records launched in 2008 and is now on its fifth edition. Have you bought one? I did. I picked up the 2008 edition for a fiver, flipped through it twice and haven’t thought about it since. See, [...]
New multiplayer maps for Gears 3: This week’s release of Fenix Rising includes five new multiplayer maps (Academy, Anvil, Depths, Escalation, Slab) and four character skins (Recruit Clayton, Thrashball Cole, Savage Marauder and Savage Kantus). It also introduces an ability which looks an awful lot like Call of Duty’s Prestige mode to my untrained eye, only without a sensible name. [...]
Dead Island DLC: Deep Silver have announced a new downloadable story pack for Dead Island. This one lets you play as the antagonist Ryder White, and see the island from his perspective. More weapons, more blueprints and more story. It’ll be out on 1st Feb for 800 MSP and £7.99 on PSN. Account hacking everywhere. Or not: There seem to [...]
Kerry Dyer is an animator and a fricking amazing model maker. Mike Bithell pointed out her incredible work in my Twitter stream today. She’s been crafting a set of Turians from Mass Effect, based on the art of Sophie Powell. Dyer has documented the full process on her blog. It’s fascinating to see the development process from original concept art [...]
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning/Mass Effect 3 – EA have announced unlockable cross-overs between these two games. Play the demo of Reckoning from 17th Jan to unlock special armour and a “chakram launcher” in Mass Effect 3. Play the Mass Effect 3 demo (not yet dated) to unlock omniblade-stlye daggers for your Reckoning character. Asura’s Wrath: The demo for this game [...]
Now, I am really excited by Binary Domain. I thoroughly enjoyed the sections I played at the Eurogamer Expo and I’m still intrigued by the flexibility of the voice commands. Still, when I saw the final packshot today… hahahahahaaaaaa! Now I have nothing wrong with a good bromance among team-mates under tough warfare conditions. But look at the injured right [...]
Diablo 3 on consoles: As reported by Eurogamer, Diablo 3 is definitely being developed for the console market. This was confirmed in a tweet from Blizzard’s community manager Micah Whiple this morning. Xbox Phishing: Last week an unhappy Xbox owner fell victim to a phishing attack and lost hundreds of dollars even after Microsoft assured her that the account was [...]
TV and film-streaming service Netflix launched in the UK and Ireland today. You can now stream programs on demand through your Xbox 360, PS3 or Wii as well as on other machines. I had a chat with the team from Netflix this afternoon to find out everything you need to know about the service – price, bandwidth requirements and more. [...]
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