Archive for category: Posts

/ 30th Apr, 2012 1:21 pm

What’s On This Week? 30th April – 4th May

Happy Monday, everyone. Here’s the round-up of events happening this week. See more on our shiny gaming events calendar. For creators and developers: Mobile Monday, Birmingham – A meetup for mobile and handheld game developers. Games: Playtesting, Playing, Making, London – A monthly meetup for game creators in all media to try out prototypes and get feedback. Sandpits 2012, London [...]

/ 30th Apr, 2012 11:08 am

Project Codename Zwei: ‘Striving for pure survival horror’

Bethesda Softworks and Tango Gameworks last week released promo artwork for their new title, currently named Zwei. Zwei will be a new survival horror title, currently scheduled to surface sometime next year. First impression? It looks damn awesome, as good a survival horror vision anyone could hope for. But does it remind you of anything? My first thought was the [...]

/ 26th Apr, 2012 1:45 pm

DiRT: Showdown Hands-on Preview

Allow me to be blunt: I love breaking stuff. I love throwing stuff into a skip to see if I can smash it upon impact, recycling bottles just to hear the mighty shattering sound echo inside the bin, and even that God awful Limp Bizkit song holds a small place in my heart (which was sadly overlooked in Showdown’s soundtrack). [...]

/ 25th Apr, 2012 11:40 pm

A Game of Dwarves Preview

Of all the games that I’ve seen recently, my favourite is an unassuming little management game called A Game of Dwarves. Inspired by Dungeon Keeper and the like, this game puts you in charge of a dwarf tribe digging out their halls of stone. The best part is, it’s a fully 3D map. You’ll start with a dwarf king and [...]

/ 25th Apr, 2012 3:02 pm

The Witcher 2 Live Launch Event

Earlier in the week I posted a video of Geralt’s terrible seduction skills that somehow still managed to get a young elf woman into bed. That was nothing compared to a lad I met the other day who attempted to win me by arm-wrestling a fellow journalist. He was rather less successful. To celebrate the launch of The Witcher 2 [...]

/ 24th Apr, 2012 11:40 pm

Crysis 3 Preview

Frankfurt-based developers Crytek walked a group of games journalists through a live preview of Crysis 3 last week. You may have already heard from the announcement that Crysis 3 is set 20 years after the events of Crysis 2 and you’ll be playing as Prophet, our protagonist from Crysis 2. The action we saw covered a team-mate named Psycho talking [...]

/ 24th Apr, 2012 10:45 am

The Witcher – Geralt’s Amazing Elf Seduction

I haven’t played much of The Witcher 2 yet, despite Brett telling us that the enhanced edition is incredible. Nope, I’ve been trying to finish the original Witcher game on the PC first, which is absolutely massive. Five full chapters, plus a prologue and epilogue. I’m most of the way through chapter 5 now and came across the most impressive [...]

/ 23rd Apr, 2012 2:30 pm

What’s On This Week: GameHack, GameCity Nights and more

Following on from our recently-launched events calendar, here’s a quick summary of what events are happening this week. Tuesday: BAFTA are holding a Ghost Recon Alpha screening and Future Soldier Q&A from the game’s developers. (London) Thursday: GameCity Nights. (Nottingham) Friday: Tekken 6 with Lionz Den! (Kingston-upon-Thames) Saturday/Sunday: Game Hack. (London) Check the calendar to find out what other events [...]

/ 22nd Apr, 2012 8:41 pm

Guild Wars 2 Beta – Dynamic Events Hands-on

ArenaNet have announced the date for their first Guild Wars 2 public beta weekend – 27th to 29th April. This will be available to everyone who has pre-ordered pre-purchased the game as well as those who already have beta access. With the Guild Wars series, ArenaNet are known for producing games that function even on low spec machines. The minimum [...]

/ 22nd Apr, 2012 1:44 pm

Grimlock! Transformers: Fall of Cyberton Video

Grimlock, the T-Rex Dinobot leader was always my favourite Transformer. Where the other Autobots were all “Yes, Optimus Prime”, “Protect the humans, Optimus Prime”, and “Autobots, roll out!”, Grimlock was pure goofball. I’m a sucker for anyone who can make me laugh. Bonus points if you can cause earthquakes and breathe fire. Here’s a great playlist from YouTube user NathanMSTL [...]

/ 17th Apr, 2012 2:43 pm

SoulCalibur V: Tips from a Pro

At a recent SoulCalibur V event, I got the chance to speak with one of the UK’s best professional gamers, Duncan Cartner, aka Hyrul, and he was kind enough to share some tips for players. If I was you, I’d take notes, as this guy worked on the game’s official guide book. We also got the chance to talk about [...]

/ 12th Apr, 2012 5:21 pm

Digital Shoreditch 2012 Gaming Talks

Digital Shoreditch is a yearly festival to celebrate creative technology and digital enterprise. This year it will run from 21st May to 2nd June. Also, it’s in Shoreditch. Sessions are proposed and voted upon by whichever members of the public happen to car enough to click the vote box. Games are represented well with fourteen different sessions currently up for [...]

Social links powered by Ecreative Internet Marketing