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Van Helsing trailer is looking sharp as a stake

July 3, 2012

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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing’s newest trailer shows off some new weaponry and a whole pile of monsters to use it on.Dracula might be the legendary nightstalker’s main prey, but as this new look at the game shows, there are plenty of other beasties loose in the night. Big…

Review: Sonic Rivals (PSP)

July 3, 2012

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Ah, how times have changed. Sonic Heroes once encouraged us to tap into “the real super power of team work”, but Sonic Rivals says evil is so incompetent that the good guys can afford to beat each other up while saving the world. Rivals blends the classic 2D Sonic formula…

Review: Marvel Pinball 3D (3DS)

July 3, 2012

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We kinda liked the original Zen Pinball when it released last year on the then fledgling Nintendo eShop. In fact, we liked it so much we gave it the Nintendo download game of the year award. So are we up for some more pinball action from this incredibly talented studio?…

Assassin’s Creed III trailer ignites the revolution

July 2, 2012

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The new trailer for Ubisoft’s upcoming third (numbered) entry its popular Assassin’s Creed series delivers some Independence Day flavor just in time for the 4th of July. I’m honestly not sure what the “this Fourth of July, ignite the revolution” means since there’s nothing going on with the game until…

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

July 2, 2012

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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“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?…

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