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Sony acquires Gaikai – I was right (more or less)

July 2, 2012

I was so freaking close. Having predicted not a few months ago that one of the hardware titans – Sony or Microsoft – would go and acquire Onlive, Sony goes and announces that it’s going to acquire rival Cloud provider, Gaikai, for $380 million. You know what? It’s close enough.…

Review: Modern Combat 3 (iPad)

July 2, 2012

FPS/Gameloft/iPad/Modern Combat/Reviews

As much as I try, sometimes it’s impossible to avoid Gameloft. As a rule of thumb I don’t like what Gameloft produces as it tends to be technically competent, but soulless and cynical copies of better games, but sometimes Gameloft hits the big time with its franchises. Modern Combat is…

Activision Blizzard is up for sale: anyone still think the games industry is not about to crash?

July 1, 2012

Activision/Financial results/Opinion/Vivendi

An interesting story hit Bloomberg recently: Vivendi, the media conglomerate, is looking to offload its massive stake in Activision Blizzard. Vivendi has a $US8.1 billion stake in the company, and it’s going to get rid of that 61 per cent stake in the company one way or another: if no…

Review: Gravity Rush (Vita)

July 1, 2012

Gravity Rush/open world game/platformer/PlayStation Vita/Reviews

I’m still not sure Gravity Rush knows what it wanted to be when in development, the obvious gameplay gimmick aside. The open world, cute cel-shaded graphics, platformer- inspired puzzle sequences, RPG-style music and combat that might have been borrowed from an early Kingdom Hearts game never quite mesh together comfortably.…

Lord of the Rings goes to the arena

June 30, 2012

Gandalf/Guardians of Middleearth/Sauron/The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings/Tolkien

Arena combat isn’t something that fans of Tolkien’s master work think of when they hear the name ‘Middle-earth’, and yet that’s exactly what the WB is showing off in the new trailer for Guardians of Middle-earth. Technically a tie-in with the forthcoming ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ LotR prequel film,…

The weekend discussion: “What do you look for in a game?”

June 29, 2012

weekly chat

“Fun.” That’s the obvious answer to this week’s discussion, but there are many different ways a game can be fun. My question to all our lovely readers is: “what makes a game fun for you?” Is it a tightly-written narrative, flat-out humour, innovative gameplay, quality multiplayer…. or something entirely different?…

Death Rally revs it up again on PC

June 29, 2012

Death Rally/iOS/PC/Remedy/Steam

Classic car combat title Death Rally is set to assault PC’s one more time this August. Remedy first released DR back in 1996 on the Personal Computer platform. Now the top down racer has been totally rebuilt with both a new graphics engine and brand new art style. The game…

dead-trigger-shoots-up-ios

June 29, 2012

Dead Trigger/iOS/iPad/iPhone/madfinger

A very impressive little FPS hit the iOS App Store today from developer Madfinger. Dead Trigger might be one of the best looking shooters on the platform. To say that DT’s visuals are ‘console quality’ isn’t all that much of a stretch. I mean, yes it is another zombie game,…

007 Legends brings on Lazenby

June 29, 2012

007 legends/Activision/Blofeld/George Lazenby/James Bond/Moonraker/On Her Majestys Secret Service

Okay, not really Lazenby per say, but On Her Majesty’s Secret Service will very much be one of the featured Bond adventures in Activision’s upcoming shooter. Actually, though a lot of Bond fans don’t exactly hold George Lazenby in the highest of regard (he’s probably the least liked actor to…

Sony, Nintendo, EA: will one of these be Apple’s first big gaming acquisition?

June 29, 2012

acquisition/Apple/EA/Nintendo/Sony

I know I’ve written on similar topics in the past, but I think this is a topic worth revisiting, as the signs are there that now is the time for it to happen. What am I talking about? Who Apple will acquire in the gaming space. I would argue it’s…

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