Another E3 has drawn to a close, the journalists have all packed up and gone home. We return to regularly scheduled viewing from tomorrow. Of course there’s going to be a lot of discussion in the press and in the forums about who ‘won’ E3 2012, and there were a…
Read MoreThe Nintendo Direct conference featured several newsworthy announcements prior to the actual E3 event. Easily the chief among these though, was “Miiverse”. If you didn’t catch the live stream or our coverage earlier, we’ll let you in on a few details about it. The second you turn on the Wii…
Read MoreAs many would have noticed, Nintendo has run its own pre-E3 show to show off a couple of neat things before the main event starts tomorrow. There’s some really great stuff in there – the Miiverse, especially, looks like a great take on a gaming social network and precisely what…
Read MoreSo I got my copy of Atelier Meruru today. I love the game, it’s pure, unadulterated fun, and you’ll be able to see my review on Otaku Gaming shortly. The point of this piece is not to discuss the game, though. It’s to point out how absolutely inconsistent the Australian…
Read MoreOne of the more intriguing pre-E3 rumours has been that one about Sony forming a Cloud partnership with, well, someone. Personally, I’m rather hoping it is OnLive so I can say “I called it,” but pettiness aside, this is possibly the best thing to happen to Sony in a long…
Read MoreE3 is typically the most exciting time of year for the games industry. The fact that is manages to create a vacuum where very little interesting stuff (as in, news releases or game launches) happens for a couple of weeks before, and a couple of weeks after the event is…
Read MoreWhat happens when you take a genre that console gamers don’t usually get to enjoy, work hard to make it look good and play well and then release it? Encouragement to never do it again. That’s precisely what happened to one of Ubisoft’s most interesting games in recent times, R.U.S.E.…
Read MoreSo, Square Enix, it looks like you’re doing the whole PS2 classics thing after all. Deus Ex was a nice touch, and easily the best PS2 game available on the PSN so far. Fingers crossed they don’t stop there. Especially with Eidos, Square Enix has an incredible PS2 library. While…
Read MoreJust a quick note to point out something that is, frankly, utterly embarrassing for the gaming community: Diablo III’s Metacritic score (user ratings) is sitting at 3.5/10.Before I go on, I do want to clarify: there are some good, genuine complaints raised by some of those user reviews. And nor,…
Read MoreWe’ll start seeing more information about Dragon Age III shortly, no doubt. Bioware’s fantasy RPG series has sold well in the past, and the original was a massive critical success to boot. Dragon Age II was brutalised, however, which might taint people’s expectations for the sequel. So in anticipation of…
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