The Wii nearly claimed another life in the post-christmas Wii break-in period (defined by dividing the time the console was removed from its box by the time since it started gathering dust on a shelf). Joystiq is carrying the story of a woman from Michigan who, whilst playing Wii-Bowling (why won’t people learn and stop […]
Relic have released a new video for Dawn of War 2 that shows a battle between 3 chapters of Space Marines (DoW stalwarts the Blood Ravens, Ultramarines & the Space Wolves for the fans) and a massed Orc horde. Narrated by the Ravens Force Commander, the video further highlights the move from base-oriented gameplay to […]
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Left 4 Dead Rescued!
After the admission they slacked off earlier in the week over patched L4D, Valve have pushed out the latest update to their zombie population management sim over Steam. Alongside a raft of much-demanded tweaks and fixes, major changes include the buffing of the Hunter’s pounce move, general improvements to the Smoker class to make it […]
Capcom sent word that the highly anticipated demo of Resident Evil 5 (which has been out on the Japanese Marketplace for god knows how long now) will finally hit XBL worldwide on January 26th. It will be exclusive to the 360 for one Week at which point PS3 owners will be able to get in […]
Microsoft really are doing their damnedness to shift their Evil Megolamanic Empire image. First they release a Beta for one of their Operating Systems that is both a) relatively bug free and b) actually quite damn good. Now they’re pioneering another gaming initiative. Granted, Microsoft’s initiatives are often like Sony’s proprietary format grabs – fraught […]
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LOTR: Conquest Ships
Gameinfowire.com are carrying the story that The Lord of the Rings: Battlefront Conquest has been released for the Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo DS & PC. Developed by Pandemic Studios (they of SW: Battlefront & Mercenaries fame), the game transplants the Battlefront gameplay into the high fantasy universe created by J. R. R. Tolkien and features […]
After a bit of whinging from their respective communities (not without warrant mind you), two of the biggest games of the last few months get some patch news worth talking about. First up, Blues News are carrying news of an announcement on the Bethesda Forum that the first proper patch for Fallout 3 (cunningly carrying […]
I tend to avoid MMOs like the plague, but it’s hard to miss the hoo-hah surrounding Age of Conan. It was heralded for its entire development as being the first MMO to be built for DirectX 10, packed full of hardcore adult content including nudity, violence and mature themes, coupled with a combat system more […]
Warner Bros have released the PC System Requirements for F.E.A.R 2: Minimal specification: – CPU: P4 2.8GHz (3.2GHz Vista)/Athlon 64 3000+ (3200+ Vista) – GPU: Fully DX9-compliant graphics card with 256MB (SM 2.0b). NVidia 6800 or ATI X700. – Memory: 1GB (1.5GB Vista) – HDD: 12GB – OS: Windows XP SP2/Vista SP1 – DirectX: 9.0c […]
You know there’s something not quite right with an industry when a product can sell (not just ship, mind you) 1.5 million individual copies across 6 major platforms and it’s performance is deemed ‘unsatisfactory’… Unfortunately, such a fate has befallen the latest Tomb Raider game, Underworld. Despite receiving above average reviews (in spite of some […]