Browsing all articles from April, 2010.
Getting out of the game.
It’s that time of year again. The time when I leave gaming and the family behind for the weekend and head off to the green slopes of a small mountain boarding centre near Hereford. The event? The annual 22nd Global Gaming Clan meet part IV: The Search for Carlsberg!
I first became serious (or perhaps I [...]
Serious Sam HD: The best game trailer ever?
Regardless of whether you have any interest in the game itself, you really must watch this new trailer for the game. This is probably the best game trailer I’ve ever seen, it’s like totally Digital Awesome!
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Concept Art: Left 4 Dead 2.
Kotaku have posted up some great Left 4 Dead 2 concept artwork they have acquired from Valve.
There are 11 images in total; 5 covering the new characters and 6 covering the proposed locations from the game (these are definitely the pick of the bunch).
If you hit the full size option, you’ll be treated to the [...]
Gaming Art: Orioto.
Orioto is a gaming enthusiast artist I accidentally discovered whilst randomly surfing some time ago and he remains one of the best (in fact he probably is the best!) authors of gaming art that I have ever come across.
Make you sure you pay a visit to his gaming artwork gallery hosted over at deviantART; there [...]
Whitehall blunder means it’s legal to sell adult games to kids.
By strange coincidence given my post topic earlier today, it has just come to light via The Times that the Act governing the sale and classification of video games in the UK (as well as DVD’s and videos) was never enacted!
This effectively means that the authorities are unable to legally stop anybody from selling 18 [...]
Electronic Arts condemns German ‘censorship’.
Gerhard Florin (Electronic Arts executive VP) has publically requested that Germany ditch it’s current USK rating system and adopt the more widely used European standard PEGI.
“What we’re doing here is censorship,” stated Florin. “And nobody complains. When we talk about games here it’s about violence or their alleged addictiveness, and not about their cultural status. [...]
Digital distribution to kill future classics?
Digitally downloading your games is a convenient and often cheaper method of building your games collection. The games are usually automatically patched, the ’stores’ never close and they can deliver your chosen game (more or less) there and then.
The lack of packaging probably helps the environment and certainly saves on shelf space; if my house [...]
Gaming Art: Advance Wars.
As many of my friends will know I’m a great fan of the Advance Wars series of games and a keen follower of fan made gaming art. So imagine my delight when I found some great Advance Wars artwork over at Deviant Art!
The author’s profile/galley page is here and is well worth checking out.
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Review: Shadow Complex (XBLA).
Unless you missed the multitude of adverts on Live, you may very well be aware that Shadow Complex (the collaboration between Epic Games and Chair Entertainment) was released on XBLA yesterday.
Shadow Complex has been billed by Microsoft as the “height of old-school side-scrolling design combined with modern, cutting-edge gameplay” and early previews have all suggested [...]
Plants Vs Zombies coming to XBLA.
Popcap have announced that they are bringing their rather excellent tower defence style game Plants Vs Zombies to Xbox Live Arcade! An iPhone version has also been reported as in the works.
No release date has been confirmed yet but this is great news for 360 owners. Here’s hoping they also sort out a PSN release [...]
