Category: News

  • Gamer dies in Internet Cafe, Not noticed for 9 hours

    On Tuesday, Chen Rong-yu of Taiwan died of a heart attack in a New Taipei internet cafe after playing League of Legends for 23 hours.

  • The Last of Us will feature Online Component

    Post-apocalyptic adventure The Last of Us will feature online capabilities, developer Naughty Dog has confirmed. “We’re going to have some sort of online component”, the game’s director Bruce Straley revealed in the latest Game Informer. But, for now, further details on The Last of Us’ online offering remain under-wraps.

  • Street Fighter X Tekken Leaks

    A new leak has confirmed the addition of M. Bison, Akuma, Jin and Ogre to Street Fighter x Tekken’s bulging roster of playable characters.

  • Yakuza: Dead Souls screenshots released

    Whilst the Yakuza in Japan are a notorious collection of Mafia types that control a whole host of things, some of which no one can confirm, they appear to the rest of the world to be something that can be made into videogames. Not a whole lot different to how Hollywood thinks it can turn…

  • Final Fantasy X HD remake to be a remaster for PS3 and Vita

    The Final Fantasy X HD remake for Vita and PlayStation 3 is in fact a remaster, Square Enix has confirmed but will look better, or so they claim.

  • Sony Entertainment Network to Launch on Wednesday

    Sony will be renaming all PSN accounts as Sony Entertainment Network accounts this Wednesday, alongside a system update for PS3 and Vita. No action is necessary from users, and the change will not affect accounts viewed via the PSP.

  • Games Addiction could save Education?

    Dr Paul Howard-Jones knows he’s courting controversy by arguing that video games stimulate the brain in addictive ways; nothing so riles hardcore gamers as the suggestion that they’ve got a problem. But Howard-Jones has turned this compulsion into a positive spin; he argues games could save education.

  • Nintendo’s eShop and Virtual Console Update

    Whilst Monday might be a painful day of the week to many, sometimes so painful that you just can’t roll out of bed, Nintendo are making us all happy this Monday. So for those of you who fell over in the snow today, or who’s cars wouldn’t start, or even broken windscreens, Nintendo’s update of…

  • Smash ‘n’ Survive dated, trailer and screenshots

    Smashing into things is always fun and when you’ve not got any expenses, human damage or broken lives to worry about. This is where Version 2 Games have managed to tap into the market for games like Carmagedon in the modern world and are going to shortly be releasing Smash ‘n’ Survive.

  • Latest Skullgirls Trailer

    Skullgirls, a new 2D fighter coming to PlayStation 3 & Xbox 360 has finally had the lid lifted on the story mode. The trailer provides a glimpse of the seven announced playable characters and elements of how they fit into the game’s backstory, Autumn Games have confirmed today.