Playing Dead is no game, but The Walking Dead is

Posted by AJ on February 15, 2012
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Telltale games, developers behind the Back to the Future, Jurrasic Park and Sam and Max episodic adventure games, have announced Playing Dead, a new 9 part behind the scenes series counting down to the first episode for their The Walking Dead game.

The videos are hosted by AJ LoCascio, the voice of Marty McFly in Back to the Future: The Game, and will offer an insight into the development of the game.  Fans will be able to see interviews with special guests including The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and Gary Whitta, screenwriter for The Book of Eli, writer for Gears of War and story consultant for their game.  As well as exclusive interviews and development information, fans can expect to have their questions answered in a Q&A segment exclusive to the game’s official site. Continue Reading

Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 New Screens

Posted by Kieffer Wilson on February 15, 2012
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New screens for the downloadable Sequel in the Sonic series is starting to look more and more like the Genesis sequel.

 This time around we are seeing purple sonics, Tail’s and his plane and even dual abilities? There seems to be a couple of similarities with this game and the sequel to the original Sonic, we even get that fun 3D mini games for the chaos emeralds! You can check out the gallery over at destructoid.

Blizzard Takes A Spin On Some Classic Games

Posted by Kieffer Wilson on February 14, 2012
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Board games have had just about every theme you can think of these days, Nintendo, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, basically if it has a fan base there is most likely someone trying to cash in on it and what better way to do that than with Monopoly! Well it seems that Blizzard has jumped into the dice filled ocean too.

USAopoly has anounced that there will be two new board games revolving around two of Blizzards biggest franchises. The first being Monopoly: World of Warcraft where players will try to be the richest creature in Azeroth. The other game will be Starcraft: Risk which will apparently consist of 290 custom designed pieces and three different game modes.

Both games will be appearing this summer for a price tag of 40-50 dollars.

Max Payne shoots stuff in 3 new screenshots

Posted by AJ on February 13, 2012
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3 new screenshots for Max Payne 3 have been released showing  Max shooting guns with a range of states of hair.  These have obviously been taken from different sections in the game and they all have one thing in common: Guns, explosions and awesomeness.  It’s looking explosive and you’ll be able to play it when it comes out in May 2012, for now though check out the screenshots below. Continue Reading

Thief II: The Metal Age – Retro

Posted by Jonathan Hill on February 12, 2012
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Unlike my previous retro gaming posts on Doom and Re-Volt, Thief II: The Metal Age is not one I have played when it first came out, we can be sure therefore, that my opinions on it are not tinted with rose coloured spectacles.

Thief II the Metal Age has just been re-released on Good Old Games.com, along with the first in the series “The Dark Project” I thought now was as good a time as any to give it a go. GOG do ensure that any games they sell will work on a modern computer and operating system before they sell them, even if it means shipping them with DOSBox, we can however do better as both games have received fan patches that mean they don’t just run, but run in resolutions suitable for a modern monitor without letterboxing and upscaling. The GOG forums have all the information you need, for the first game you need to go here and for the second have a look at this. Note that for the first one there is an additional step to get the briefing videos to work which can be found in the second post of the thread.
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TuneUp Utilities 2012

Posted by John Mahoney on February 9, 2012
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TuneUp Utilities Automatic Maintenance

It doesn’t matter how much time, money or effort you put into building a colossal gaming rig when you don’t do your due diligence in your housekeeping in terms of registry, defrags, broken shortcuts, temporary files and general optimisation your system. This can be a lot of work, especially if you are not what one would call a ‘computer person’ then you can find software that does it all for you. One of the options in this market is TuneUp Utilities 2012.

TuneUp Utilities is designed to help you manage and optimise your system and has been around for several years now; the 2012-version is compatible with Windows XP or later and is available now for £24.99. Software like TuneUp Utilities is nothing new, but the latest version of TuneUp was released December last year and, not only is it a upgrade on the previous editions, but it can seriously help to speed up your computer, whether you want your computer to run faster for high-end gaming, or just to be a little bit smoother when exploring Windows, chances are your whole system can benefit from changing just a few options. Continue Reading

Final Fantasy XIII-2 Review

Posted by Kieffer Wilson on February 5, 2012
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By this point in time you have probably heard the mountains of fan boy hate about how Final Fantasy XIII is possibly the worst game in the entire series and how the franchise is going down the whole. While the last entry in the series wasn’t an awful game many of the statements given were correct about it, the number one statement being that it didn’t feel like a Final Fantasy Game. With Final Fantasy XIII the developers decided to change everything about the series to try and keep up with the current generation of games, only to realize that it wasn’t what the audience wanted from them. While a lot of games today have become very fast paced and combat oriented Final Fantasy is a series that needed to stay with a lot of the things that made it great.

Old Friends Return in This Entry

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Rhythm Heaven Fever

Posted by Kieffer Wilson on January 29, 2012
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It’s starting to become a stretch for the Wii in these last couple years it is running. Nintendo is planning for the Wii U in hopes of it becoming bigger than the Wii and the 3DS is even becoming bigger and bigger by the week it seems. But Nintendo still has a trick up it’s sleeve to make me buy more games for my dusty Wii. Soon to be released this coming month is Rhythm Heaven Fever, a game full of miniature Wario Ware-esque games all revolving around rhythm. For those of you that bought a Wii just for Skyward Sword this may be a game to fill up your Wii library, it’s not the most hardcore game but that doesn’t seem to be an issue with Rhythm Heaven. You can play alone or with a friend and have a great time playing badminton in an airplane, or become the ultimate wrestler in an interview. This game is also a must for anyone who loves games such as Katamari Damacy and Wario Ware Inc. just because of the noticeable Japanese feeling to the game. If you haven’t seen the english trailer yet, check it out below!

Steam mobile announced for iOS and Android

Posted by AJ on January 27, 2012
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Yesterday Valve announced their first mobile application, Steam mobile, for iOS and Android devices.

Steam users will be able to log into the application, currently in an invite only Closed Beta, and chat to their friends on the go, browse community groups and user profiles, view screenshots and other generated content for their favourite games, read the latest gaming news, view Steam deals and more.  Hopefully this means no more missing out on Steam deals whilst away from the PC. Continue Reading

PS3 Gets Awesome Exclusives For Street Fighter X Tekken

Posted by Kieffer Wilson on January 27, 2012
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Looks like the PS3 and the PS Vita are getting a good bit of characters that the Xbox 360 isn’t getting. The Sony versions of the game will include Pacman, Cole (from Infamous 2), Toro and Kuro and the original Megaman from NES, and no we don’t mean the pixelated one. Check out the new promo video below!