23 Oct, 2010

While the title rhymes, its not a very good lyric but then again if Des’Ree can rhyme Ghost and Toast I can’t see why not! Anyway if lyrics and music are your gaming thing you will be pleased to hear that Rock Band 3 will be launching with free DLC – for a limited time only. Between October 26th and November 1st you will be able to download The...

23 Oct, 2010

Time Magazine Time magazine have recently covered the WCG Ultimate Gamer competition with a focus on girl gamers. Their profile of Katherine Gunn is as insightful as you would expect a time article to be and worth checking out. Her brother and sister have both competed professionally in the past. “My mom’s probably at home playing Call of Duty right...

15 Oct, 2010

Do you think you know your horror movies ? Popular quiz-masters Scene It are posing the questions again in this quiz for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch and separate HD release for iPad). Including video clips they managed to get past the Apple censors this should test seperate the ghosts from the ghouls. Right up-to-date including questions from the (in my...

15 Oct, 2010

From the 26th October and just in-time for those Halloween parties, you can get pluck your way through the hit songs from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Time Warp might sound like it would be suited to the Kinect interface (“Just a jump to the left, and a step to the right”) but this forms part of Rocktober set of downloads from Guitar Hero:...

8 Oct, 2010

The Fight Like A Girl Tournament, or FLAG for short, is an annual Halo tournament that raises money and awareness for breast and cervical cancer research. Every year, hundreds of gamers come together one weekend in October to have fun, play some games, and donate. This cause has raised over $15,000 towards breast and cervical cancer research since they started...

8 Oct, 2010

Blizzard have announced their MMO has surpassed the 12 million subscribers mark. Getting over this massive number has been driven by the release of Wrath of the Lich King release in China at the end of August. Wrath of the Lich King was released on November 13, 2008, selling 2.8 million copies within the first 24 hours of availability. This made it the fastest...

5 Oct, 2010

Nat Marco a 26 year old game designer is featured in this brief video on the BBC newsbeat site. There isn’t really any context to this video so its hard to comment on. Given the date of their upload it looks like this could have been at the recent Eurogamer show in London where smaller studios have had an opportunity to show their wares. What do you think...

3 Oct, 2010

Over 5,00 StarCraft 2 players have been suspended or banned from Blizzards battle.net system for terms of use violation in StarCraft 2. Blizzard have said the users where cheating or using hack programs while playing. As well as just not being fair Blizzard have concerns that such programs could lead to instability issues for other users. Blizzard have said...