Major Nelson (from the Microsoft Xbox team) has announced that Microsoft will be increasing the price of it’s Xbox Live Gold subscription in some of the countries around the world. From the 1st November 2010 the following price increases will come into effect. For those of you who have your credit card details on Xbox
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NCSoft have released quite a bit of information about the new Necromancer class that will appear in Guild Wars II. Check out the videos below to see some of the Necromancer’s spells in action. Personally, I love a good minion spell. It’s great seeing them go off to beat the crap out of an enemy
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You can now play the classic shoot-em-up R-Type on your iPhone or iPod Touch thanks to EA Mobile. It costs £1.19 and is available now from the iTunes store. This version of R-Type includes all 8 levels from the arcade version and 3 different control methods: Touch (self explanatory really, control your ship with your
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Hydorah is a gem of a game that has come out of nowhere made by someone called Locomalito. It is a real old school shoot-em-up (or shmup), i.e. it’s side scrolling and its bloody hard. I’m talking R-Type hard here, which coincidentally was one of the games Locomalito was really good at when he was
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Here is a much longer demo by the NCsoft guys at Gamescom showing off Guild Wars 2 (thanks for the link to the video Brinstar. In you get to see many of the new features that NCsoft have added, like casting whilst running, huge boss fights very early on in the game. One of the
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I’ve just added 8bitstange.com to the list of my webcomic/gaming sites. It now sits proudly alongside Order of the Stick, xkcd and Penny Arcade to name but a few. Why have I done this? Well, 8 bit strange is a new site set up by an animator called Greg Kaperski which currently contains 2 episodes
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The latest Patapon game is nearly ready for release, so Sony has been showing it off in this latest trailer. Patapon 3 features 4-player co-op and even 4 x 4 player co-op as well as new skills and weapons. It all looks really cool. Patapon 3 is due for release on the 29th Oct 2010
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The Imperial War Museum at Duxford is about to host what I think is the UK’s first flight simulator exhibition on the 4-5th September 2010. The Flight Sim 2010 show will take place in a spacious indoor exhibition hall within AirSpace, which will give visitors the perfect chance to hop next door to the Aircraft
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Fancy seeing how cool it can be to have your own assassin’s guild in Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood? Well, have a look at this video, complete with commentary from one of the developers at Ubisoft, to see just how cool. A simple hand signal can spell doom for your enemies. Awesome. My only worry is that
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Following on from the nail’d trailer I posted last week, some screenshots have been released showing off some seriously steep hills. Eeek! From the looks of it nail’d is shaping up to be a more mountainous version of Motorstorm. Excellent. Screenshots: