UPDATE: Sony has contacted us with the following statement: “Please note, this was an online store listing error. This has been fixed immediately and the classification mark for the title is R18+.” In yet another example of the breathtaking stupidity of Australia’s new R18+ age classification, the first game to score…
Read MoreHong Kong-based eastasiasoft has really exploded onto the development scene. It kicked business off just a few years ago (2007), and has already found itself in possession of a very valuable cult-hit franchise in Rainbow Moon and the upcoming Rainbow Skies. It’s an interesting time to be a start-up games publisher…
Read MoreThe Fowl Tempered pack has landed on Xbox Live and the PSN with new levels and a new bird in tow. Say ‘hi’ to Stella, the pink bird, and 135 new levels for the Xbox and PlayStation editions of Angry Birds Trilogy from Activision. When activated, Stella traps enemies and…
Read MoreReady for your very own portal to hell? Nordic Games is about to unleash the mod-kit and Steam Workshop for their old school action shooter Painkiller: Hell & Damnation. The development tools used by (Painkiller devs) The Farm 51 are set for release this April and should make those inclined…
Read MoreThe Metal Slug series continues its all out assault on mobile devices with the announcement of Metal Slug X for iOS and Android. MSX is actually the third game in the popular side-scrolling series from SNK/Playmore and it’s the fourth Slug to arrive on mobiles as it joins the first…
Read MoreGoichi Suda’s funky flight combat game, Liberation Maiden, has hit the iOS app store in Australia and New Zealand courtesy of Level-5. The A/NZ app store is increasingly used as a test run for iOS releases. We had Real Racing 3 a couple of weeks ahead of the rest of…
Read MoreI still don’t quite understand where the R18+ rating for Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus came from. This is a game that features violence, but even with the PlayStation Vita enhancements the violence is aging quite badly. It’s more amusing like when an anvil lands on Wile E Coyote’s head…
Read MoreThe latest Metal Gear title hits the PlayStation online store for your downloading pleasure. Metal Gear Rising Revengeance has launched to some pretty positive word of mouth. The more action-oriented Metal Gear title features cyber-ninja Raiden as he strikes out for revenge and cuts some very big holes in anything…
Read MoreTelltale’s amazing reinvention of the ‘point and click’ adventure game is now available for zombie-smashers in Australia and New Zealand. I honestly cannot believe this masterpiece of the modern adventure game has been kept from global release till now. It’s stunning, but ‘season 1’ of The Walking Dead is only…
Read MoreSony is really working hard for its fans. PlayStation Plus is without a doubt a high-value service, turning hundreds of dollars of games into a single, small, subscription cost. There’s more though. Sony’s answer to the PlayStation Network hack of some years ago was to give away games. Last year…
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