We’d always thought Torchlight, the game that many have generously labelled as simply being inspired by Diablo, had been a cult hit for developers Runic. Thing is, 500,000 copies sold isn’t a cult hit. It’s a hit The developers sent word yesterday that the game had passed the half a million sales milestone, helped along…
Alex Popov has spent $500 and the past two years of his spare time making this fan film set in the Aliens vs Predator universe. It won’t win any Academy Awards, and in parts the effects are quite shonky, but for a small team (Popov had a little help with some of the computer graphics)…
The USA got the PS3 video download store in 2008. In parts of Europe, it launched in 2009. As is the way with many things video game related, it’s only this week launching in Australia. “Hundreds” of movies will be available when the service kicks off this Thursday, in both standard and high definition, with…
Halo creators Bungie may have signed a publishing deal with Activision, but let’s not forget, there’s always the possibility they can sign with rivals Electronic Arts as well. Remember: Bungie’s deal with Activision is for a single piece of intellectual property. With Bungie being a massive studio, however, there remains the distinct possibility it could…
Epic, and its series of Unreal Tournament games, used to be known as a PC-centric developer. These days, consoles come first, something that rankles PC gamers no end. If you were wondering why Epic made that switch, you only need to look to company president Mike Capps, who tells Edge magazine, “If you walked into…
Steam is now available on the Mac. Great news for people who only own a Mac, but what if you’re like me, and own both? Which is faster? Tom’s Hardware is on the scene to find out, using both a Macbook Pro and a “Hackintosh” – a non-Apple computer modified to run the Mac’s operating…
I bought my PS3 when the old backwards-compatible PAL model was taken off the market. I got one of the last ones. That’s my story. But why do other people buy PS3’s? Research firm Nielsen decided to find out. Polling 700 people aged between 7-54, all of whom were in the market for a PS3,…
It’s twenty years of video gaming, brought to you by a British man and a beat. You may have heard some of this before, but nerd rapper Dan Bull has released an extended version of his amazing track, complete with new footage and new lyrics. It’s similar to Sole’s “Video Game Song” that I played…
Don’t get bummed out, Starcraft fans! We’re not going to let the morning pass without some good news. Well, not news. It’s more a clip, of what Starcraft would look like on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Smartly, the isometric viewpoint has been dropped in favour of the NES’ speciality, side-scrolling, which though messy in parts,…
Border Break is the latest in a long line of Sega arcade games featuring mechs beating the crap out of each other. Here’s an action figure base don one of them, so you can bring the battle to your desktop/bathtub. This is the Shrike Type I, by Kotobukiya. Scheduled for release in Japan in July,…
An FCC filing submitted by Nintendo and Mitsumi, an electronics manufacturer, seems to be for the new Nintendo 3DS handheld. There’s not much to it, but what there is should give hope to fans of widescreen gaming on the go. That pic above there is most likely a testbed for the Nintendo 3DS. Since the…
We can all agree that video games are a form of entertainment, but just what about them entertains you? What are you looking for, or getting out of them, when you sit down with a controller in hand? I bring this up because over the weekend I was talking with a friend about Modern Warfare…
The first images of the recently-revealed Batman: Arkham Asylum action figures have dropped from a gargoyle and landed online, and if they’re one thing, they’re faithful to the source material. And if they’re two things, they’re faithful to the source material and a poor quality black & white photo. Sorry! But that’s what you get…
The scandal enveloping Korea’s professional Starcraft scene appears to be worse than first believed, with eleven gamers under investigation amid allegations that gambling organisations have been running a “training institute” to lure players into illegal match-fixing. As we reported last month, an investigation has uncovered widespread corruption in the upper echelons of Korea’s pro gaming…
Most, if not all of you, will at some stage of your life been read to from a Golden Book. They’re a childhood staple. But what if there were Golden Books that, uh, weren’t exactly suitable for the little ones? They’d look like these! Josh Cooley, an artist at Pixar, has been whipping these up…
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Games can be so LOUD, and also often so poorly-written, that the opportunity for moments of quiet reflection often pass us by. Time then for some gaming haiku. Haiku, the restrictive, formal Japanese art of poetry, is often able to reduce even the most complex subject matter down to its core elements. So it is…
Baker009’s custom Ethan figure, from Sony’s PS3 thriller Heavy Rain, looks great. Sounds great, too, since he never opens his damn mouth. Standing 6.4″, he’s not only a striking recreation of the in-game character – down to his slacks and crummy beard – but also includes Ethan’s important accessories, like a shoe box, camera, gun…
Evony, an online strategy game with saucy ads and, some would say, a shady past, knows you are not necessarily fans of its boob-riddled website advertisements, and is promising to mend its ways. “Moving forward – based on community feedback as well as an in-depth look at advertising effectiveness – we are employing an ad…
Jason Bradbury, host of Britain’s “The Gadget Show”, seems to know something the rest of us are only guessing at, proclaiming the launch of Sony’s PlayStation Move controller will take place this September. Posting on his Twitter account, Bradbury says, “.. another thing I was meaning to say. Sept for Playstation Move!!! I’m sure of…
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