OK,  I know I said I’d try to lay off the Top 10 X posts, but it’s Friday and I’m in a good mood, so when I saw this, I thought back fondly to one of the things that has made gaming so much fun over the years: developers with a sense of humour. Finding [...]

As much as we all love our PS3s, I’m sure almost all of us feel somewhat annoyed every time we’re prompted to download a new firmware update which doesn’t tell us anything about what it does. It seems that Sony will supply a features list if they feel like it, and if they don’t… who [...]

As usual, I decided to hop onto the PlayStation Network last night to see if anything new or interesting had been made available. After all, I’ve got my uncapped connection now, it would be nice if I could get some use out of it. I was expecting the usual barrage of Minis, trailers, themes and [...]

It’s one of those inevitable incidents, like the next rainstorm or power-outage, and it’s something we’ve just come to accept as part of gaming culture: the next FPS game. Since the phenomenon was set in motion roughly 15 years ago by Doom, we’ve had to endure FPS releases almost on a monthly basis. Thankfully, most [...]

I find stuff like this very amusing. Apparently a Mortal Kombat fan was so stoked by the news of the new game returning to its roots and going a bit more old school that he made and entire animated video of the fatalities from the first game out of construction paper. It’s quite impressive, actually, [...]

Man, it seems like Capcom is really milking this Street Fighter thing, aren’t they? It seems they’ve realised how much the world loves the game – even some gamers who aren’t all that into 2D fighters – and they’ve decided to sell us as much Street Fighter merchandise as they can manage. And I’m such [...]

Two more characters have been added to the lineup in Capcom’s upcoming Marvel vs Capcom 3. The first in on the Marvel side, and it’s none other than the Norse god, Thor. Yep, I guess we can expect a lot of hammer bashing and lightning bolts being thrown around in some crazy combos. The second [...]

Recently, a writer over at Bitmob directs readers to a website containing a lot of in-game screenshots that were taken so skillfully that they could stand as legitimate photography in their own right. He then asks the question: can videogame screenshots serve as art? I found myself thinking the same thing when I played with [...]

In an event organised and coordinated by Vogel’s, the creators of the PS3 Twistdock charger, a team of six Dutch enthusiasts logged a 50 hour multiplayer session of Red Dead Redemption. I’m pretty sure they had small breaks for eating and other necessary acts, but apart from that it was beginning to end – 50 [...]

In a recent interview with Kotaku, new Activision publishing CEO, Eric Hirshberg, mentioned that his first order of business is to change the “evil empire” stigma the company has been branded with over the last few years. This probably came about as a result of their squeezing successful franchises for every last drop of blood [...]

Apparently, Microsoft has recently unveiled some impressive new technology to go along with its Kinect project. A virtual human, Milo,  that responds to the player and grows according to their inputs. So basically it means that each user can have a virtual friend with a different personality. It was developed using some AI technology from [...]

We really have to thank Capcom for giving us match-ups we never could have dreamed of with their trademark “versus” series of fighting games, which let us experience battles between characters from different videogames and beyond. Well, that time has come again, and this time Capcom has decided to pluck a crew of characters from [...]

It seems that Sony is becoming slightly concerned about the possible effects of the emerging 3D TV technology, which is still largely untested on a mass market for a long period of time. Of course, the only thing they really had to do was issue the right warnings, which they have started including with every [...]

It seems that a crew of ex-Call of Duty developers from Infinity Ward have partnered with EA to start a new company, Respawn Entertainment, and that their first venture will be a sci-fi space shooter designed to conquer Halo. Respawn Entertainment was founded by Jason West and Vince Zampella, who were later joined by more [...]

I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is and say that there was probably nobody in the country more excited about the news of The King of Fighters XII coming to PAL PS3. I also liked the game despite its shortcomings. To me, the lack of characters bothered me a whole lot less [...]

If I can ever find a scientific study proving the healing/therapeutic/academic qualities of videogames to throw in the faces of the anti-videogame crusaders, you can be sure it will be my first pick. In this case, another study conducted by the Texas A&M International University claims that violent videogames can actually have a stress-relieving effect. [...]