With Microsoft’s Xbox 360, Nintendo’s Wii and Sony’s PlayStation 3 duking it out for dominance of the video game console market, can there possibly be any room for yet another machine? Steve Perlman, a well-known Silicon Valley inventor and entrepreneur, thinks there is. His strategy is to make a game system without game discs. His [...]
Archive for November, 2010
29 Nov
Gran Turismo 5 – review
Five years in the making – racing fans have had a long wait for Gran Turismo 5. At the game’s launch in Madrid on Wednesday its creator, Kazunori Yamauchi, explained to the Observer the connection between the long gestation and the rationale that drives him: “There is quite a gap between just completing something and [...]
26 Nov
Focus on Consoles Holding Back PC Games According to Crytek CEO
The divide between console and PC gaming grows slimmer with each passing generation. With their 3D, HDMI and Blu Ray, console gamers are hardly starved for quality, but it is a level that could well and truly be surpassed on PC if studios stopping building games with the limitations of consoles in mind. At least [...]
26 Nov
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Even though they’re wheeled out every year alongside their console cousin, n-Space’s Call of Duty games on DS never cease to surprise. From making first-person gameplay work well on the unconventional handheld to pushing horsepower limits, each entry seems to have something new to prove. This year, Call of Duty: Black Ops pushes the DS [...]
25 Nov
Need For Speed Hot Pursuit PC patch coming next week
Need For Speed Hot Pursuit’s PC owners have been dealing with a few bugs since the driving game was released last week. Today the game’s official message boards got an update from Matt Webster of developer Criterion Games with word that a PC patch is on its way and should be available to download sometime [...]
25 Nov
PS3 owners petition Activision for Black Ops refund
According to the disgruntled gamers, the PS3 “can equal and/or outperform the Xbox 360 on many levels”, yet Black Ops on Sony’s console features “sub-par graphics, buggy software and less features” than the 360 edition. The petition references Digital Foundry’s recent analysis of the game’s visuals, in which it was claimed that Black Ops is [...]
23 Nov
UK: Black Ops Loses 85% Sales: Still Beats All-Comers
The news this morning that Call of Duty: Black Ops has maintained its UK all formats Chart Number 1 spot, beating off Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is all the more impressive given the stats. According to Chart-Track, which compiles the charts based on UK retail returns, “Activision Blizzard’s Call of [...]
23 Nov
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
2010 has been an excellent year for racing games and the hits just keep on coming. With Split/Second and Blur holding down the front end of the year, Sony has alleged that Gran Turismo 5 actually exists in a completed form (I won’t believe it until I actually hold the game in my hands, though). [...]
20 Nov
Potter flick doesn’t give a fright
Not all, but at least some feel that the latest Harry Potter movie is still scary. Even before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released, many parents speculated that the scenes in the movie could be scary for their little ones. Movie review websites had pointed out that the movie should have been given [...]
20 Nov
Reviews – Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
I’ve never been a fan of Need for Speed. Until now! I’ve played, I think, every one of the games in the series, right from the first one on 3DO. That first release was hyped for its technical excellence, and I have no reason to doubt that it deserved the hype – technically. But the [...]
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