Smaller platforms like Xbox Live Arcade have made great inroads introducing small or independently produced games to a larger audience. PC games used to be the only market where such games could see the light of day, but a small game house from the Isle of Wight in the English Channel has had great success [...]
Archive for January, 2011
26 Jan
Midweek feature – Bugs, Patches And Pachter
We remember arguing, sometime circa 2001, that the presence of a hard drive in the original Xbox would immediately lead to publishers and developers releasing PC style patches for console game. This, we were confidently told by our argumentative friend (well, acquaintance – actually enemy now we think of it), was nonsense and would never [...]
26 Jan
Dead Space 2, Mario Sports Mix, Yogi Bear: Out this week
2011 is off to a great start, thanks to a handful of big game releases. So far this month we’ve had DC Universe Online for the PS3 and PC as well as LittleBigPlanet 2. This Friday in the UK (today for you lucky US lot) sees the release of an eagerly anticipated blockbuster sequel from [...]
26 Jan
Duke Nukem Forever release date confirmed for May 2011
Duke Nukem will return to consoles after nine years in a new title, Duke Nukem Forever, due for release in May. The foul mouthed hero will try to save the world from aliens once again, with the new title available on PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. Duke first appeared in PC games in 1991, [...]
17 Jan
The Best Sound 2010 The PC Games Readers favor massive sounds
A sound is a good video game, Such as The salt in the soup. What background music in the form of synchronization, composition and sound effects found last year in the ears of most PC games community appeal, please click here. The developers recognized in recent years the importance of a good sound for a [...]
17 Jan
Best Of Indie Games: Shark Attack in Bat Country
[Every week, IndieGames.com: The Weblog co-editor Tim W. will be summing up some of the top free-to-download and commercial indie games from the last seven days on his sister 'state of indie' weblog.] This week on ‘Best Of Indie Games’, we take a look at some of the top independent PC Flash/downloadable titles released over [...]
14 Jan
Review – LG E2260V
With the E2260V (there is also a E2360V but is not yet in Italian shops), LG tries to give a refreshed design than the previous lines. Compared to most of the monitors on the market, this does not present the usual excess of roundness and, conversely, every part is very boxy, linear, trying to squeeze [...]
14 Jan
Killzone 3 will have 18-rating and 70 minutes of cut scenes
Killzone 3 earned its 18 rating for its ‘strong bloody violence and strong language’, according to the details published by the BBFC – but they also reveal that the game passed with no cuts being required. But the classification also revealed that the game’s ‘linear elements’ (i.e. the cut scenes) run to a total of [...]
11 Jan
FIFA 11 stays top of the UK game chart
EA has remained on top of the UK all-format game chart for the start of 2011, with footballing franchise FIFA. According to Chart Track, FIFA 11′s sales might have halved since last week, but it did enough to avoid being dislodged. It has now spent four weeks at number one in total (two weeks in [...]
8 Jan
Amnesia Sales Top 200,000, Dev Sees Bright Future Ahead for PC
The game has now sold twice as many copies as its creators originally projected, and has proven such a success on the desktop that Frictional is now re-assessing whether porting the game to consoles would be worthwhile. Let’s start with what I guess people are most interested in – sales. When counting all online sales [...]
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