Nov 19, 2010

It’s now official: there will be no new NBA Elite, what was NBA Live, this year. In an almost unprecedented move, EA have turned a self imposed delay into a full-blown cancellation, removing an annual staple and a guaranteed earner from their release schedule . Their failure to churn out a competent reboot for their flagging basketball sim has already...

Nov 18, 2010

Labour MP Keith Vaz is at it again, with another very calm, collected and certainly not unreasonable jab at videogames being responsible for murder. This time Mr Vaz has claimed that Valve’s ever popular online first-person shooter Counter-Strike is “associated” with the recent shootings in Malmo, Sweden, which caused one death and up to 15 attempted...

Nov 17, 2010

As we all know, videogames get a lot of undeserved criticism from various ignorant corners. It’s always nice to see some support for a change, but what we really need is somebody respected and admired in intellectual circles, perhaps. Somebody revered in such quarters who will casually and unashamedly defend our hobby. How about Knighted, Booker Prize...

Nov 16, 2010

Format: Wii Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: Nordic Games Developer: Le Cortex Players: 1-4 Site:http://www.wesinggame.com/ Squeals of delight echoed throughout CG towers when We Sing Robbie Williams arrived. At last – a game that rewards us for humming along to the Mork & Mindy theme tune! We even had hopes that a deal had been struck with Disney,...

Nov 16, 2010

Have you carried out your duty and bought CoD: Black Ops? I ask as it seems that as gamers, and as consumers, we are now expected by everyone, from Activision Blizzard to the world’s media, to go and automatically purchase the latest game. So I ask again, have you gone, taken out a pre-order or filed into your local supermarket and bought it on impulse...