The ultimate game of ultimate Greek mythology being made ultimate, the third, has the ultimate Ultimate Edition. God of War III Ultimate Edition (or as it’s known here, the “I really want that box” Edition), comes in a box, Pandora’s Box, to be exact. It also has a bunch of other goodies, as is shown in the [...]

It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything along these lines, some fool committing some kind of atrocity and blaming it on a videogame. Scandalous stories like these were rampant during the ‘90s when videogames were just starting to push the envelope as far as violence goes. And while this story isn’t quite as shocking [...]

If you’re a PS3 owner and you haven’t at least played Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, then shame on you. If you have, well then you know what all the hype and high scores are about. If you’ve already blazed through it and collected almost all of the treasures, you’re probably already left wanting more. Well, [...]

In light of the recent announcement by Activision that they are going to mark up their retail price for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, a lot of gamers, both local and abroad, are wondering whether this will set a precedent for all other AAA PC titles released in the future, finally bringing the prices [...]

According to smarty-pants, thinking-type analyst-type people, upcoming music game like Guitar Hero but with a turntable instead, DJ Hero, may not do as well as its publishers hope. There are a lot of factors involved here: DJ Hero is much more of a niche title than say, Guitar Hero. The simple appeal of playing rock [...]

Our November issue will soon be on the shelves, and this time, we’re going all out to bring you the hottest coverage this side of awesome. This month, we are running a double-cover edition! Both of our major gaming feaures were just too fantastic to push aside, so we elected to put both Borderlands and [...]

Traditionally, game development is focused on building up a system, releasing one or two demos for feedback, and eventually coming out with a complete project. In this case, “eventually” usually means months or years down the line. But what if that could be different? What if a developer decides to generate the complete product first, [...]

A little while ago, Infinity Ward and its publisher, Activision Blizzard, announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for PC would not have any Dedicated Server support. This made a lot of (PC) people very angry, it made some (non-PC) people confused, and others generally didn’t care because they’re going to buy the Xbox [...]

It seems that the only other country that compete with Germany for the “harshest censorship laws” prize is Australia. According to their Review Board, the game is simply too violent to be accommodated in their MA15+ age-rating slot in its current form. The level of violence is apparently impactful, prolonged and realistic. In addition, the [...]

As most of you should know, nVidia doesn’t just manufacture video cards. It also has a motherboard chipset division, and produces mobile chipsets like Tegra, which is found in the Zune HD.  While ATI has been taking all the headlines with RV870 and DirectX11, and most of the nVidia partners are set to discontinue their [...]

If there’s one line that game developers seem to be unwilling to cross, it’s the whole violence against children issue. Think about it, in games like Dead Rising and Resident Evil, where odd viral outbreaks occur to transform the population of entire towns into mindless killing machines, you never seen any child zombies. Why is [...]

Eddie Riggs is a roadie, and a pretty luckless one at that. He spends most of his time smoking cheap cigarettes and lugging heavy things around for the worst metal band on the planet. What serendipitous fate, then, that the whole not-but-actually-really-Linkin Park dies totally gruesomely right at the start of the game when Eddie [...]

I used to think that the concept of a simple, straightforward game was rather icky. Things like classic sidescrolling shooters or run-and-jump platformers were, at best, mere paving stones on a path leading to the “good stuff”. Oh, how naïve I was! The truth of the matter is that many good games out there are [...]

A short while ago, the Hokuto no Ken, better known to us as Fist of the North Star, was announced as a game for the PS3 and the Xbox 360 from developer Koei. If you’re familiar with Koei’s previous works, then you’ll be unsurprised to hear that it will play very much like their Dynasty [...]

At its heart, Axel & Pixel is a slimmed down point-and-click puzzle game: you won’t be stuffing an ever-expanding inventory with all sorts of items; you won’t have to have conversations with characters (in fact, there is no understandable dialogue at all, just Sim-like gibberish); and you won’t be wandering backwards and forwards between new [...]

Even here in SA, the fan following for Final Fantasy is quite extensive, and there are plenty of gamers out there whose sole reason for buying a PS3/360 is probably to play Final Fantasy XIII… and any other Square Enix titles featuring Tetsuya Nomura’s lavishly accessorised, spiky-haired, disturbingly effeminate protagonists. Well, if this is you, [...]

It’s competition time again! This time, we’ll give you a little longer than 24 hours to enter (although some unobservant people didn’t seem to pick up on that with the last comp ). Courtesy of Blowfish Entertainment, we’re giving away two starter sets for the World of Warcraft Miniatures game. First prize is the WoW [...]

For those among us who still whine about playing FPS games on consoles because of the lack of a keyboard and mouse, this might be for you. It seems that peripheral developer SplitFish has just unveiled a new version of its highly-praised SplitFish FPS controller for the PS3 and PC. Dubbed the Dual SFX Frag [...]

There are a few King of Fighters fans here in SA, and a few who I know will buy every KoF title as it is released – and the sad thing is, I probably know half of them personally. Let’s be honest, 2D fighters haven’t really had a huge market here since the days of [...]