Dwarf Fortress is one of the most complex and rewarding games on the PC. Problem is, it’s also ugly as sin and nigh on inaccessible to most gamers. This new game seeks to change this. It’s called Survivors of Ragnarok, and it exists solely to take the core experience of Dwarf Fortress and transplant it…
If you’re a PC gamer, and your favourite titles are a few years old, they may be starting to show signs of ageing. What you need to spruce them up, then, is the ENB Series of mods by Boris Vorontsov. Some of you may already be using them in games like Oblivion, Deus Ex and…
Included with every 3DS sold will be six cards. They may look like plain paper cards, but they’re actually “augmented reality” devices, which when detected by the 3DS’ camera come to life on the handheld’s top screen. We’ve shown you what the question block card looks like, but that’s just one card. There are five…
What you’re about to read is far from a wide-ranging concern. But it does highlight one legitimate reason Sony has for going after PS3 users installing their own custom firmware on their PlayStation 3 consoles. A report on Ars Technica, showcasing some digging at the edge’s of the PlayStation Network performed by a team of…
Telltale’s Jurassic Park game has broken cover, with this debut trailer showing that it at least has rain, electric fences and dinosaurs in it! The game will be a bit of a change for Telltale. Normally developers of straight-up adventure games, this one has more action to it, as you’d expect (and hope) from a…
You may not remember her, but Velocity Girl was one of the stars of E3 2005. Young, funky and a casual gamer, she was promised the Xbox 360 would be the console of her dreams. Sitting cross-legged on the floor during the big reveal of the Xbox 360, controller in hand as if he was…
I’m generally not very good at shoot-em-ups (Ikaruga somehow excepted). I tend to die, and die often. So playing Who’s That Flying today has been a refreshing change for me! It’s a shooter (or shmup) where you’re invincible, and like superhero games you may have played featuring this hook instead of worrying about your own…
This new trailer for id’s upcoming open-world shooter RAGE turned up in advertisements overnight. You really should watch it. I mean, the game looks great, but it’s when you see the “from the creators of Doom & Quake” bit that it hits you: these guys, who made Doom & Quake, haven’t made a new, proper…
Gunshine is an upcoming RPG that’s being worked on by a bunch of former Remedy (Max Payne) developers. It’s also being funded by the former Crown Prince of Sony Computer Entertainment, Phil Harrison. So let’s have a look at it. Supporting four-player co-op and running in a browser, Gunshine looks like Saturday Morning Syndicate, and…
Brushing your teeth, doing your hair, shaving, all BORING. What we need to liven things up is a mirror that doubles as a touch-screen display. Like this one. Designed by Alpay Kasal, it’s inspired by a similar display he’d seen which was intended to be “the bathroom of the future, complete with news and weather…
Over ten years since it was first released on the Dreamcast, Bangai-O is back, and boy, are you in for some bullets. Due out in the Spring, Bangai-O HD is a shiny update of the original, which was first released on the N64 in Japan before later turning up in Europe and North America on…
So that Final Fantasy VII album by Mega Ran and Lost Perception is out. And…it’s pretty damn great. You can get it here
Well, that was fast. Despite the handheld not being released yet, Electronic Arts has already canned one of its first games for the Nintendo 3DS. My Garden was one of the first titles ever shown off for Nintendo’s upcoming handheld, and also one of the first “proper” games for it we ever got our hands…
You’ve never seen Mario like this before. Not unless you dreamed he was in a game developed by Epic for the Xbox 360. This amazing re-interpretation of the humble little plumber is by artist Marat Ars. His humble little friend Yoshi has been replaced by a hulking mecha suit, quaint fireballs switched out with what…
My favourite video game soundtrack is not a collection of original orchestral pieces, nor tracks by famous artists. It is one performed by a band that, were it not for this game, few of you will have ever heard of. Full Throttle, an adventure title released by Lucasarts in 1995, is rightly regarded as one…
For the price of a PlayStation 3, Saitek’s new X-65F Flight Control System for the PC had damn well better be the best video game peripheral ever made. The Basics The X-65F is a fully-featured “flight control system”, meaning the pack includes a joystick, throttle control and auxiliary instrument panel. Designed to work with every…
Can’t afford the big, beautiful God of War III art book? Make do with these free internet pictures of the game, showing the concept art skills of Jung Park. For a game about anger and frowns and snarls and blood, he sure does manage to make everything look if not pretty, then at least beautiful.…
Looks like Capcom might be in big trouble with Apple over the number of complaints the App Store has received over Smurf’s Village
You’ll want to skip to around five minutes into this video, but once you do, you’ll get some tips on how to play games that sound incredibly patronising and basic…until you realise you never actually use them. This is Sean “Day[9]” Plott, a star in the world of StarCraft II who last week devoted one…
Glimpsed by Stephen T at the Toy Fair in New York over the weekend, Square Enix’s Play Arts line is about to include three more Final Fantasy figures, all of them crowd favourites. Selling for around USD$50, and going on sale in Japan in June, the three figures are all in their Dissidia forms, being…
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