God of War and God of War II remastered in 720p HD with anti-aliased graphics running at 60 frames per second with Trophy support, all on a single Blu-ray Disc So, before God of War III hits next years in March, this is the perfect reason to revisit Hades and all of its cheerful neighboring [...]

Welcome to the Weekend Distraction™, where we provide you with only the highest in quality time-wasting flash games, videos, and interesting links. With us, your Life™ can have Meaning™ again! FORWARD! Do you remember an old game called Tube from Bullfrog? Well, Run is a little like it, but not entirely.  The idea is simple [...]

The long-awaited continuation of American super-agent William “B.J.” Blazkowicz’s foray deep into enemy territory has finally arrived, and it’s dripping with old-school throwbacks and occult investigations. Can it stand its ground in the heavily entrenched frontlines of first person shooters? Let’s have a look… It’s 1943; the fictional German town of Isenstadt is under SS [...]

“The Agility EX offers consumers the most cost effective SLC solid state storage solution on the market, and when customers take all the benefits of SLC into consideration, the total cost of ownership of these drives truly shines through.” It is with this statement, that OCZ announce the release of their new Solid State Disk [...]

Apogee Software (known for Duke Nukem before he went senile) founder Scott Miller was recently interviewed by Gamasutra. In the lengthy article detailing the twenty-odd years of his career, Miller reveals that Apogee, along with one of their hit games of yesteryear, Rise of the Triad: Dark War, are being revived. “There’s actually another company [...]

Recent weeks have been particularly chock-full of interesting and easy ways to kick-start your game development career. But there’s something of a trump card that hasn’t yet been revealed: the humble board game. “But sir!” I hear you cry, “I’m here to make videogames! What’s with this analog nonsense all of a sudden?” Slappity slap, [...]

The September issue of NAG will be on shelves tomorrow (the 27th of August), and it’s packed with tantalising previews as we move closer to the Q4 rush, as well as a chunk of reviews to keep you going until Modern Warfare 2 arrives. There are two Q&As – Halo ODST and Assassin’s Creed II, [...]

Earlier this week we reported that the classic game series Commados would be making a comeback. According to the Spanish sister-site of Eurogamer, who contacted Pyro, they’re not working on a sequel. Well dang, that sucks. Who’s to blame? Gamer.nl, who made the whole thing up.

Did you know that the main performance bottleneck in your PC is your hard drive? The hard drive is the one component that hasn’t seen any fundamental changes since it was first introduced in 1956 by IBM, and is long overdue for a replacement. Enter the Solid State Disk (SSD). Providing sub-1ms access times, it [...]

Remember Commandos, the series of PC games from the late 90s where you controlled several commandos, utilizing their unique abilities to avoid detection and blow stuff up? No? You missed out, actually. It was tough, no doubt about it – enemies had a ‘sight cone’ that if you strayed into, you were dead – but [...]

You kept asking us when the next STALKER will arrive, and now we can tell you (see, it’s not that hard to be patient). During its GamesCom conference in Germany today, Namco Bandai has unveiled that it will be handling publishing for GSC Game World and their latest offering, STALKER: Call of Prypiat. It’s set [...]

There seems to be a lot of COMS and CONS going on at the moment, because while GDC/GAMESCOM winds down this weekend, BLIZZCON is kicking into high gear. With BLIZZCON 09 currently belching news into the gaming ether of the internet, one can expect some long-awaited updates on their upcoming games. For instance, they’ve just [...]

Welcome to the Weekend Distraction™, where we offer up the best in Flash games or videos or funny links or whatever, to help you while away the hours while waiting for that horrible time-waste called a weekend to be over. Everyone hates weekends, right? Two days of nothing but rest and relaxation, who needs it. [...]

I’ll admit, cellphones are not on top of most gamers’ minds. After all, a phone must just be capable of calling people, MMSing, and loggin onto Mxit, right? Wrong. Today, the modern cellphone has either taken over, or completely assimilated markets that used to belong to MP3 players, portable movie players, and PDAs. This boom [...]

We’re not making this up. It’d be cool if we were, but we’re just totally stoked that our favorite catchphrase-spewing Mohawk-strutting muscleman with a heart of gold (and ’80s action hero) is finally getting the game he deserves. Coming to PC, PS3 and 360 and based on the range of graphic novels about Mr. T, [...]

Those of you who follow competitive overclocking on the site HWBot, will know that Overclocking Legend K|ngp|n from the USA has led the pack for many months now, managing to stay miles ahead of his closest rivals, hipro5 and SF3D. Back in early June of this year, two Taiwanese overclockers, AndreYang and the ever controversial [...]

Look at that: more PlayStation news just sloshed out of a beer tankard in Germany. It seems Sony is into all things tiny at this year’s GDC/GAMESCON as they’ve elaborated on their concept of PSP Minis. From 01 October PSN users will have access to a new section on the store for PSP Minis, which [...]

The sign of a great character design is that, no matter how it’s rendered, it remains a recognizable icon. If you’re a fan of either Super Mario Bros or The Legend of Zelda, or just like looking at pretty artworks, here are two links you won’t want to miss. First up is a collection of [...]

The rumours have been flying around the Internet for a couple of months now, and over the last few weeks those rumours have been gaining momentum with various retailers in the USA, Europe, and UK leaking stock lists or photos indicating the existence of the PlayStation 3 Slim. Kaz Hirai (you know who he is, [...]