The Dark Knight, he is everywhere. Watching. Waiting. Ensuring the innocent are able to go about their business free from fear, and danger. He does it in Gotham City and he does it in…Cologne, Germany. This Batman statue stands guard at Warner Bros.’ Gamescom booth. He is of course there for Batman Arkham City, which…
Chances are, if you’re reading this, you won’t be at this year’s Gamescom. Never mind! We’re taking videos so you can pretend you’re here. All that’s missing is the smell of sweat mixed with juice, the cacophony of European accents and the over-abundance of swag bags sponsored by PC hardware companies. You’ll have to take…
Of all the games we’ve seen so far destined for the new PlayStation Vita, none epitomise the gulf between Sony’s last handheld and its next one like Resistance When the original PSP first launched, it promised to bring home console gaming to the palm of your hands. With less power under the hood and one…
Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson has found himself in the middle of an unexpected legal battle with Bethesda, publishers of the Elder Scrolls series. Rather than fight it out in court, though, he has a better idea. Persson has challenged Bethesda to a game of Quake III. 3v3, two maps (one chosen by each side),…
When DMC: Devil May Cry was first unveiled, all people could see (and react to, and shriek in horror at) was the lithe, sad-panda appearance of the series’ protagonist, Dante. And they haven’t reacted to much since. Perhaps it’s because we’re simply used to it now, but checking out DMC at Gamescom earlier today, I…
Every new console or handheld needs that one game. That one title that you show first to friends, family and co-workers. The one that makes them go “ohhh, that’s neat”, and makes you feel better about spending all that money you’re already slightly regretting. LittleBigPlanet is that game for the PlayStation Vita. Why? Because it…
The upcoming Star Wars The Old Republic isn’t all happy Jedi and sunflowers and rainbows and Rancor puppies. There are bad guys. And one of them is at Gamescom. This is a lovely big statue of Darth Malgus, one of the villains of the PC MMO. He looks like he could do with a nap.…
While a few companies held press conferences and showcase events yesterday, today we’re off to the Koelnmesse for the first day of the actual show. We’re leaving, oh, around now, so for the next 12 hours we’ll be playing games, looking at games, talking to people who make games and then writing all about, it…
While it looked pretty amazing when first released, time has not been kind to certain visual aspects of Oblivion, the last game in the Elder Scrolls series. Especially its plastic-faced, potato-headed characters. With the fifth Elder Scrolls game, Skyrim, due later this year, people might be curious to see just how many of the world’s…
Malaysian student Ashraf Haziq made world headlines last week when he was the victim of not one but two sickening attacks during the London riots, one which broke his jaw and one which saw his PSP stolen by a man supposedly “helping” him While there was initially some good news for Haziq, with Sony pledging…
I just got to spend the last two weeks writing, browsing the web and playing all kinds of video games on this. The Alienware M18x. I have never had more fun with a laptop computer in my life. I know Alienware has a certain reputation amongst PC gamers. That for the most part their flashy…
Gamescom 2011 – The world’s biggest public games show kicks off next week. It’s so big even Luke is going. Right now, in fact. Bye Luke! Is Valve Releasing a New Counter-Strike Game? Out of nowhere, there’s rumours flying around tonight that Valve is on the cusp of revealing a new game. It’s not Episode…
Eugen Systems’ last game, RUSE, had a neat gimmick that in the end fell a little flat. Their next title, Wargame, doesn’t look like a gimmick at all. It looks exactly the sort of thing we’re looking for in a PC strategy game. Its full name is Wargame: European Escalation, and is set in the…
Some of the world’s greatest paintings collide with some of the world’s greatest adventure games in this collection by Aled Lewis The Indiana Jones/Dali is great, but the Last Supper one is amazing. If only Jesus had Sonny Bonds on his side, he might have avoided that whole crucifixion mess all together! As with everything…
Jeff Fletcher, an IT guy from Halo creators Bungie, pulled into the parking lot of a US Bank branch in Skyway, Seattle last week. He then saw two guys start shooting each other. What happens next is awesome. A former security guard whose father used to be a Seattle cop, Fletcher saw a fight between…
Some video game movies are…OK. Most are terrible. Why is that? Allow a guy who makes video game movies for a living (try and) explain. Paul W.S. Anderson has been involved with every Resident Evil movie since the first one all the way back in 2002, and thinks the reason most game adaptations suck is…
I love video game trailers, but I love them for the same reason I love concept work: I see them as entirely separate art forms from an actual video game. I enjoy them and appreciate them for what they are, not what they’re trying to represent. And that generally leaves me a pretty happy guy!…
Out of nowhere, there’s rumours flying around tonight that Valve is on the cusp of revealing a new game. It’s not Episode 3, but for many, it will be the next best thing: a new Counter-Strike game. Most of the chit-chat so far is based around testers (and eSports commentators) having very recently got some…
After a range of teeny little downloadable content packs, Creative Assembly’s Total War: Shogun 2 will next month be getting its first serious expansion, called Rise of the Samurai. It sends the game back in time (well, further back in time), and kicks off 400 years before the events of Shogun 2. As such, while…
Put aside the platform pissing match between EA and Valve over Battlefield 3 for a moment, PC fans, and let’s all enjoy a nice custom PC casemod based on DICE’s upcoming shooter. Marketing team SeeBark Media built this wonderful custom PC in honour of Battlefield 3, emblazoning the side with labels honouring the game’s engine…
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