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BioShock Infinite Announced - And it’s not set in Rapture

Friday, August 13th, 2010

 The next game in the BioShock series has been unveiled and, in something of a (Bio) shock, it’s not set in the underwater city of Rapture. Indeed, it isn’t set underwater at all, but in an entirely new location - a flying city called Columbia. Like its predecessors, Infinite is also set in a modified [...]

Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game - First Impressions

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

 

 I’ve had an hour or so with the videogame adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs The World and I’ve come away with mixed views so far. First up, on the positive side, it does keep the style of the graphic novel quite nicely and does a good job of referencing 90’s videogame history. The fonts and [...]

Scott Pilgrim vs the Omniverse (and cross-licensing)

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

 

 I’ve been kind of obsessed with Scott Pilgrim vs The World lately, but I seem to have come from it from the reverse angle. By that, I mean I only found out about the series from the movie trailers for the recent film; from there I looked up the videogame and was captivated by the [...]

DeathSpank - Review

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

 DeathSpank has been almost universally described as Monkey Island meets Diablo and that’s pretty much spot on - all the hacking, slashing and looting of a Diablo-like dungeon crawler (although mainly focussed on above ground sections rather than murky underground areas) with the humor and bizarre characters of a Ron Gilbert classic.

 Despite all the Monkey [...]

Even more BioShock 2 DLC on the way

Monday, August 9th, 2010

 Following hot on the heals of the release of The Protector Trials, BioShock 2 will be receiving a more story driven DLC experience later this year (northern Autumn) in the form of Minerva’s Den.

 According to 2K, "Minerva’s Den is a self-contained narrative experience that puts players in the role of an all-new character who has [...]

Atelier Rorona Official Site Launched

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

 

 NIS America have launched the Official Site for the upcoming English language release of Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland.

 

 The latest in the long-running Alchemy themed series, the title will launch this (Northern) Autumn.

 RPGamer’s summary page for Atelier Rorona.

 

Agarest War 2 - Dengeki Scans

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

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Etrian Odyssey III Preview Video

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Activision are just colossal arse-clowns now

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Just the latest in a long line of nonsensical crap from the world’s largest videogame publisher, but enough is enough - seriously.

Kotick claims that 60 percent of Xbox Live users are there “principally because of Call of Duty,” and that Activision doesn’t see a fair share of the money from it.

Kotick described closed console networks [...]

BioShock 2 Single-Player DLC Dated

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Oh, hell yes! 2K Games has announced that the next DLC made available for BioShock 2 will be a single-player set of maps entitled The Protector Trials and designed by 2K Marin. I was beginning to give up hope that we’d see anything other than multi-player DLC and, given that I’m on my fourth play-through [...]

The Silver Lining back on track

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

 In welcome news, Activision have dropped their C&D against the fan made King’s Quest game The Silver Lining.

 The game has had to bounce back from a similar setback in the past, the current situation caused by the colossal Vivendi/Sierra/Activision/Blizzard/Whoever merger, which resulted in essentially a new company being in control of the King’s Quest rights, [...]

Bioshock Level Arcadia Demade for Doom 2

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

Even though it’s been out for a while now, I just wanted to give a mention to the Arcadia Demade WAD for Doom2. Made by JP LeBreton, who worked on Bioshock, the map is a "demake" of the Arcadia and Farmer’s Market areas from that wonderful game. He’s done an impressive job too, especially considering [...]