Nov 15, 2010

Earlier this year, I mused aloud in an article about the point of Twitter and some of the effects it has had on the gaming community (which can be read here). It ended with a proposition from my editor to actually try the site for myself rather than question it from a distance and I accepted that challenge. Now a few months later what, if anything, have I...

Nov 15, 2010

Format: PS3 (version reviewed), 360, PC, Wii, DS Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: Activision Developer: Treyarch Players: 1-4 (offline), 2-18 (online, including splitscreen) Site: http://www.callofduty.com/hub World at War was a bit of a mess. Offline, grenade spamming; online, the unwise inclusion of tanks and a few unpopular maps – all wrapped up in an...

Nov 15, 2010

Format: XBLA Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: PopCap Developer: PopCap Players: 1-2 Site: http://www.popcap.com/games/xbla/pvz Zombies are in. Let’s face it, you can’t go far in the world of videogames without bumping into someone who has died but still has an axe to grind. Heck, even serious shooter Call of Duty has a zombie mode. However, in...

Nov 13, 2010

Quickly, panic stations people! Everybody strip naked and writhe around in your garden in an effort to soak up sunlight. Failing that, get to high ground in a low cut, sleeveless top and the skimpiest bikini bottoms you can find. The bastion of medical health studies has just informed us that our children are getting rickets from playing games indoors. We must...

Nov 12, 2010

After what seems like decades of waiting, Sony has finally announced the UK release date for PS3 racing sim, Gran Turismo 5… again. We can all hope to be speeding around racetracks rendered in high definition, driving some legendary cars from Wednesday, November 24. “Gran Turismo 5 is an ambitious project, with challenges and complexities which have made it...