If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set [...]
Rockstar has announced that LA Noire: The Complete Edition will be arriving on the PS3 and Xbox next month. It was already announced for the PC back in September, arriving on November 11th. The Complete Edition will emerge on consoles a week later on the 18th. The complete version includes the original game, of course, [...]
Take two discs into the shower? Well that’d just be silly, but you’ll need two discs when it comes to playing Battlefield 3 on the Xbox, no bones about it. At least if you want to play multiplayer, anyway. EA has today confirmed that when it comes to Microsoft’s console, the game will be split [...]
Whatever your shooter poison is – from Dead Space through Gears of War, Crysis or Call of Duty – more fanatical players might find this controller add-on interesting. The Avenger from Gaming Zap (spotted by Games Radar) is a device which sits on top of your Xbox controller to make it easier to play the [...]
Microsoft’s doing its round of summer games promotions on Xbox Live again, and the first title to be part of 2011′s hot weather (ahem) gaming marathon is Bastion. Exclusively available on Live Arcade (but also planned for the PC later), Bastion is an action role-player published by Warner Bros. Selling points include wild and imaginative [...]
Batman: Arkham City, the sequel to the massively acclaimed Arkham Asylum, is coming this autumn. And boy are many folks stoked about the return of this stealthy action-adventure with dollops of good old fashion “kapow” style combat. If you’re really hyped, then you’ll likely be keen to hear what the Collector’s Edition of the game [...]
Those of you who have picked up Kinect may not have been overly impressed with the games line-up so far, as it’s predominantly casual by nature. That’s set to change though, with Child of Eden just released (a quality futuristic psychedelic shoot-em-up) and games such as Ryse (from Crytek), Rise of Nightmares (a Sega horror [...]
Zombies… you can’t live with them, and you can’t die with them either, on account of the fact that when you’re infected you become undead. And the idea of the latest game from Digital Reality and Candygun Games is to live through the zombie apocalypse. Dead Block has just been unleashed onto Xbox Live Arcade [...]
The latest trailer for Gears of War 3 has hatched out, and you can see it at the official site here (or on YouTube if you prefer). Microsoft boasts that it offers a peek at the “epic-scale” campaign in which Marcus Fenix and his brothers-in-arms attempt to save humanity from the Locust and Lambent menace. [...]
Hydravision Entertainment has announced that the board game Dungeon Twister will be making the leap onto Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network (dare we mention the latter at the moment…). It’s a turn-based strategy game which is kind of a cross between chess and D&D, with two parties of adventurers facing off, both trapped in [...]
Child of Eden is a colourful and psychedelic Kinect-powered shooter due next month (and on PS3 Move later in the summer). Ubisoft has just published a trailer on YouTube which shows the tutorial for the Xbox Kinect version, illustrating exactly how you’ll blast your way through a horde of alien ships using just a flick [...]
Namco Bandai has announced an action RPG, Dark Souls, which should be out at some point this year. It’s the follow-up to the acclaimed and innovative Demon’s Souls. Coming on both Xbox 360 and PS3 formats, the game promises a “rich, dark fantasy universe”. Very dark by all accounts, the world of Dark Souls being [...]
Child of Eden is a “multi-sensory shooter” and spiritual successor to Rez, which is coming to the Xbox in a Kinect-powered version (although it can also be played with normal controllers, and is set for the PS3, too). It was thought the game might be released next month, at the close of the first quarter, [...]
If you’ve come across the original Yoostar, you’ll be familiar with the premise: It’s a game which allows you to insert yourself into your favourite movie. The sequel to Yoostar is due on March 11th, and uses the Xbox Kinect or PlayStation Eye to allow players to become movie stars on the small screen – [...]
Bulletstorm is the new shooter from Epic Games, the architects of Gears of War and Unreal, and if you’ve been waiting to try it, the demo is out now on Xbox Live (and PSN tomorrow). Bulletstorm is designed as an intense and over-the-top shooter, with huge guns, lead spraying everywhere, and doubtless body parts too. [...]
There’s some role-playing goodness coming to the Xbox in the form of indie dungeon delver Torchlight. Torchlight started life as a PC RPG, and was ported onto the Mac in August of last year. It will be arriving on XBLA at some time in February or March, as part of Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade House [...]
Atari has announced a new game based on the famous ghost-busting films for Xbox Live, PSN and Windows PC. Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime is a four player co-op action adventure in which New York city must be saved from the menace of sliming spirits, using your wits and proton packs (taking great care not to [...]
If you’ve not encountered Enslaved yet, it’s a polished modern video game retelling of the classic tale of Monkey. Yes, the outlandish TV series with the mad Monkey and his cloud (which in itself was based on a classic Chinese novel). One of the best characters was Pigsy, a lecherous fool who was always getting [...]
At the Comic-Con in New York last weekend, Marvel revealed that Konami is to bring the retro classic coin-op X-Men, the side-scrolling beat-’em-up, to the Xbox and PS3. It will be available to download on Xbox Live and PSN, Kotaku reports, and as with the arcade cabinet will allow up to six players to take [...]
A demo for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II will be released next week. The demo will be out on Xbox Live on Tuesday, and PSN the following day, ahead of the release of the game on October 29th. A launch trailer has also been unveiled which you can have a peek at now, check [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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