After weeks of voting with a record-breaking 2.06 million votes cast, the 29th Golden Joystick Awards are finally upon us. I’ll be covering the event today so follow The Average Gamer on Twitter to find out what’s happening. One of the awards has already been announced – this year sees the first outing of the Outstanding Contribution Award, which will [...]
Microsoft held their press event today. Sadly, we at The Average Gamer were not invited but it was quite fun streaming it through the desolate E3 Expo newsroom and watching real-time reactions of gamers on Twitter. My personal Microsoft presser highlight: Dance Central 2 will feature side-by-side competitive multiplayer. No more of that one-after-the-other bollocks, which is never a good [...]
Yup, there’s a helluva lot of news coming out this week. Not surprising given that E3 conferences start on Monday. Here are our picks of today. CD Projekt RED announced in their Summer Conference that The Witcher 2 will be released on Xbox 360 before the end of 2011 and that patch 1.2 for the PC is available today.This will [...]
This month’s gamer banter is an unusually specific question: Has a character redesign ruined how you feel about a character? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! I was a big fan of Lara Croft as a teenager. In a world saturated with male action stars, male scientists and, of course, male archaeologists, Lara was a welcome sight. Here was a [...]
Short and sweet background to the upcoming Tomb Raider Underworld. No sign of the ominous QTEs yet :)
Ever wanted to see Lara in a bikini? Well now you can....
BEWARE – SMALL SPOILERS – skip the italicised text if you don’t want to know! Age rating: 12+ What is it? Adventure, action, but not really enough puzzles. Is it fun? Yes, for the most part. Is it worth the money? £29.99 (from Play.com) Yes, but the game is a little short (…I am seeing a theme recurring here) Why? [...]
Eidos have announced that the latest instalment of the Tomb Raider franchise will be available from the 7th April 2006 (USA – 11th April). This is a fairly crucial release for Eidos as the previous Tomb Raider games have been pretty poor in quality and lacking in gameplay innovation having stuck to the tried and tested formula of the original. [...]
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