Month: January 2012

Max Payne 3 has slipped from it’s original release date of March back to May, Rockstar games have confirmed. Owing this to extra development time to make sure the game will live up to the memories of the first two installments. After all it has been 10 years coming, what’s another 2 months?

Mass Effect, those two words alone are enough to send many gamers into a frenzy of futuristic, spaceage insanity. Yet, that’s just what EA are planning for with Mass Effect 3, and to make sure that it’s at the forefront of all gamers minds the impending demo has been given a release date. A date…

Continuum, it’s a word of many meanings. To move from one language to another in various iterations, it can be used in mechanics, maths and many other things. Yet today, we’re using it for one of the latest games to come from a joint venture between Arc Systems Works EUroe and PQube: BlazBlue Continuum Shift…

Breaking things is fun, well, when it’s other people’s things. Smashing up virtual cars in a safe and calm environment, with no fear or death or pain is even more fun. This is something that’s seen every now and again and Version 2 Games have now announced that they’re about to make it a bit…

Party games, they are the scourge of this generation of gaming and they don’t seem to be slowing down. With the success of them on the Wii, they’ve spread across to all of the other consoles and even mobile phone games now. However, one game can raise it’s head above the rest and claim to…

Finalé, they tend to be somewhat sad as it’s the last in a series of things. The very last ever Zelda game will be soul destroying, for millions Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows signified the end of their childhoods and even the last episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender is sad enough.

So another Monday brings another round of updates for the various platforms that Nintendo currently has on the market. Of course, actual videogames developed by this AAA developer would be more welcome; however, the ability to fall back in time and see games of yesteryear is always a welcome distraction from Skyrim.

Oceans and graveyards, neither are things that combine all that well. After all, dead bodies floating around everywhere isn’t a particularly appealing concept. Yet, it’s just this concept that’s one of the driving themes behind SquareEnix’s latest game, Heroes of Ruin. Today SquareEnix released a number of new screenshots of this up and coming Nintendo…

Little extras are really what turns a purchase from something that you’re begrudgingly spending your hard earned cash on, into something that’s pretty awesome. It would appear that many in the videogame world are understanding that fans like free things, that and limited edition sets.