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.
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
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.
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.
So another Final Fantasy game, another chart winner. It was hardly surprising, Square Enix have been pushing the game so hard it was likely to break into Fort Knox it was so strong. That said, seeing the Top 5 just being “real” games and the second place spot going to another just released title is
For months now, the gaming industry has been swamped with samey, apocalyptic third person shooters and predictable RPG sequels. Now it is time to welcome an entirely different game to the fore. The old, tired rhetoric of past games may now be cast aside by the wonder that is Catherine. The experience Catherine provides is
Some of them might be at the bottom of your garden, and their names might be “wiggly woo” but the ones that are around on the day after Valentine’s are ones that you’ll most certainly want to avoid. At least in the physical sense as their murderous tendencies are irrepressible and you might end up
In the heart of the cold snap we are experiencing across the country, EA have decided to release the latest trailer for SSX to warm us up. Unfortunately, they seem to have sent us a video depicting the harsh realities of Antartica instead of the warmer climbs of the Caribbean. Oh well, still with the
Today, CAPCOM have released a bevy of lovely screenshots and a new video for the comic-game hybrid, Ultimate Marvel Vs CAPCOM 3. These latest teaser images come straight from the PlayStation Vita version of the game and feature some very nice combatants such as Chun-Li and Tony Stark himself as Iron Man. While already available
US magazine Game Informer has published the first game-play details of PlayStation 3’s exclusive The Last of Us. Joel and Ellie will fight for survival in Naughty Dog’s new post-apocalyptic world.