Archive for June, 2009

Sega Megadrive Handheld goes up against Nintendo DS

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Play.com have been selling their Sega Megadrive Handheld Console for a while now. At only £27.99 this device has been quite a hit, but the downfall is that it doesn’t support any additional games to the 20 it comes with.
This has sparked the launch of the Retro-gen (from Innex), which [...]

Druid Forms In Action

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I finally managed to get on to the PTR late last week, it was plagued with bugs directed at battle.net accounts that could not login to the PTR servers.
This video shows off the new night elf druid forms and all their different skins, as mentioned in a previous post the different colour skins are selected [...]

Midsummer Fire Festival Broken

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It’s that great time of year folks! The Bulmers cider adverts are in full flow, the BBQ’s are on and the evenings just seem to be endless. It’s Midsummer and with it comes the in-game world event called the Midsummer Fire Festival.
My memories of the festival from last year are fond ones, I really enjoyed [...]

Grand Slam Tennis Review

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Game: Grand Slam Tennis (with Wii MotionPlus)
Developer: EA Canada
Publisher: EA Sports
Available on: Wii
GAMEPLAY: It might not seem like it but this is a rather big release for EA and Nintendo as this is the first game to use the new Wii MotionPlus attachment. The attachment comes bundled with the game and, to be honest, it [...]

PEGI ratings to become standard in UK

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Today the UK government has announced that the PEGI ratings system is to become the standard form of classification for computer games. The Video Standards Council (VSC) will oversee the implementation of the system for all titles released in the region. The BBFC, who had control of the previous ratings system, will no longer be [...]

Red Faction: Extreme Marketing!

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It’s very much the norm to see a publisher promoting their new game but yesterday THQ took it to the extreme, literally. To promote the release of Red Faction: Guerrilla in London, the marketing folks at THQ got a car, filled it up with a 100 copies of the game and chained a sledgehammer to [...]

The Last Guardian screenshots

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Last week at E3 we were given the first “official” look at Team Ico and Fumito Ueda’s new game called The Last Guardian. Earlier today a few new screenshots of the game were released and they look really impressive. The trailer shown at E3 gave us all a taste of what to expect gameplay wise [...]

Red Faction: Guerrilla Review

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Game: Red Faction: Guerrilla
Developer: Volition Inc

Publisher: THQ
Available on: Xbox 360 and PS3 (Reviewed on PS3)
STORY: Red Faction: Guerrilla takes place on Mars in the year 2128, where an organisation called the Earth Defense Force (EDF) are the bad guys. They have started taking people against their own will and forcing them to work in mining [...]

New Druid Forms Full Preview

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Blizzard has released the final pictures of the new druid bear and cat models for both Horde and Alliance. I have to say the new models look really nice and are a great way for druids to further customise themselves. The new forms will be part of the 3.2 major content patch. Even though the [...]

Infamous Review

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Game: Infamous
Developer: Sucker Punch
Publisher: Sony
Available on: PS3 only
STORY: Infamous tells the story of Cole McGrath, a messenger who while on his way to deliver a package gets caught in the middle of a massive explosion. When he awakens he come to the realisation that he has mysteriously ended up with super powers, which are all [...]