May 15, 2013

Today is the day that the EU PlayStation Store finally carries Terraria. You may well be tempted to rush to your TV to buy it, especially as we told you what a good game it is in our review. But wait just a brick bustin’ minute! How would you like to get the game for free? We can help! We have an EU PSN code to give away to one lucky reader. All you have...

Apr 30, 2013

UPDATE: The EU PSN release date has been announced as 15th May. Original article follows. Terraria has landed on PSN and XBLA today, and so it now of course has a launch trailer. It’s that bit of video up there. Click and watch it; it has literally everything. Okay, perhaps it’s a little disingenuous to say ‘literally everything’....

Apr 26, 2013

The first of the two promised major 2013 updates is now live for the Wii U. It’s worrying that one of the biggest releases for Nintendo’s console in the first half of the year is a system update, certainly; but it makes some important changes. You may well have already downloaded it. But what the devil has it done? Most importantly – from the...

Apr 24, 2013

In what is surely the most exciting news of the month, Microsoft has announced that it will be making an announcement. Surprising absolutely nobody at all, the existence of a “new generation” of Xbox has been confirmed. Major Nelson revealed nothing but a tedious countdown timer on his blog, using PRspeak. Thus: On Tuesday May 21st, we’ll mark the...

Apr 23, 2013

During a court case that was mostly ignored by the games press while ongoing, Activison (UK) brought fraud charges against two videogame PR representatives. One was their own head of internal PR, Kathryn Kirton; the other was Jamie Kaye, consultant for Frank PR – one of the best-known companies to games journalists in terms of press releases and review...

Apr 8, 2013

Editor Update: Commentators confirmed At the end of March three living, breathing, and very much real cricket commentators were confirmed for Ashes Cricket 2013. David “Bumble” Lloyd – England coach for the 1997 Ashes, now a Sky Sports commentator – Michael “Slats” Slater, commentator on Australia’s Channel 9 (with experience as a player in 74...