18 May, 2011

As the eager fan community gears up for the fourth The Sims 3 expansion pack, Generations, Electronic Arts have today released a video interview with the production crew, teasing us with little snippets of what we can expect from the expansion when it’s released next month. Generations is designed to flesh out the individual life phases of your Sims with a...

17 May, 2011

European developer Techland are lining up one of my most anticipated games of 2011 – a sentiment shared by many of my fellow horror nuts here at GGS – and this morning’s mailbox packed this superb trailer, the first to showcase Dead Island’s incredible in-game graphics. Considering the sheer amount of blood, baps and bikinis on show, the...

16 May, 2011

Brand new and long-awaited first-person shooter, Brink, has taken the gold in this week’s race to the top of the UK all-format gaming chart, a monumental achievement for independent British developer, Splash Damage. To director Paul Wedgewood and the rest of the team, from all of us at GGS Gamer, a hearty congratulations to you all! Nevertheless, Brink has...

12 May, 2011

Our mailbox this morning brought glad tidings that this week SEGA’s futuristic third-person shoot ‘em up, Vanquish, joins DiRT 2 and Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising on Microsoft’s Games on Demand service. Developed by PlatinumGames – the collective genius behind Bayonetta’s… behind – Vanquish stars DARPA researcher,...

11 May, 2011

A week ahead of the release of Honest Hearts, the second downloadable content package for post-apocalyptic first-person adventure, Fallout: New Vegas, Bethesda Softworks have furnished us with several tasty new screens and an official trailer, as well as teasing us with tidbits of info regarding the storyline. “An expedition into the unspoiled wilderness...

10 May, 2011

The moment S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team medic, Rebecca Chambers, cropped up in Resident Evil 5, summing up the storyline of RE0 in a three-second sound byte (“I’m Rebecca!… Oh noooo!”) I knew she was back for good. Sure enough, here she is, once again laying the smack-down in spray form in Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D – coming soon to...

10 May, 2011

The all-format top 10 does a well-choreographed waltz this week; Zumba Fitness reclaims the #1 spot, shunting Portal 2 into second place, while Homefront departs the top 10 rather spectacularly, dropping 8 places to #17. A recent arrival on PlayStation 3 has reignited enough interest in City Interactive’s critically-panned FPS, Sniper: Ghost Warrior, to...

9 May, 2011

Following a discussion on their topical breakfast show, The Wright Stuff, Channel 5 have found themselves staring down the barrel of the Gamers’ Voice weapon of justice, after the group took issue with the show’s ‘Do shoot ‘em up games lead to real violence?’ item shown last month. The complaint referenced the misinformed and biased...