4 Jul, 2011

The search is on to find 2 UK female spokesmodels to represent Need for Speed! They’re looking for females with ‘boundless energy, outgoing personality and an edgy style fused with a passion for cars and gaming’. The lucky winners will each win a home entertainment package worth £1500 and a place in the European spokesmodel final! The winners...

2 Jul, 2011

Though this may in fact be old news, I’ve never seen them. A post from the website glitterberri.com was recently linked on the /gaming sub-reddit. It’s a collection of screenshots from Shadow of the Colossus, with examples of the colossi that didn’t make the final cut for the finished game. Notably a phoenix, a boar and a Dune-esque sandworm....

29 Jun, 2011

As some have already been saying, will somebody please pick up the rights to this movie and make it already? And it better be done well, otherwise some heads will roll. With the advent of chasing zombies in pure rage thanks to fright-fest 28 Days Later, the shuffling zombies of ye olde days of yore on the silver screen have become a comedy cliche. While we might...

28 Jun, 2011

Music. In a world inundated with iPods, MP3 players, and digital downloads, we might have forgotten that sometimes music is simply a powerful tool. Whether it’s creating the right setting when you’re out and about, when you’re trying to cheer up, or making the correct setting work in a videogame, music is often times the cherry on top that...

28 Jun, 2011

As if we didn’t see this coming, the winners at this year’s E3 2011 have been announced by Game Critics’ Aawards. Not surprisingly, BioShock Infinite, our favorite zip-line plasmid-wielding unassuming Pinkerton agent title, took home Best of Show, Best Original Game, and some other Best Awards. Another big winner was, not surprisingly (or maybe...

26 Jun, 2011

Every day, GraphJam provide us with a selection of amazing, crazy and fantastic graphs and charts for our amusement. And each week, we cherry-pick our favourite game-based offering just for you. Because we’re lovely like that. Who’d have thought that stuffy old graphs could be fun,...

25 Jun, 2011

First things first: from the bottom of our hearts, we wish Bungie the happiest of returns for their 20th anniversary on the 7th of July. For me, they’re one of the best developers in the business, not to mention being lucky enough to have one of the best communities I’ve ever had the joy of being a part of. Here’s to the next 20 years. Bungie...

23 Jun, 2011

Those rather funny folks over at Hothead Games are giving us a peek at their upcoming title, The Baconing. The screens show off the intriguing city of Spanktopia, the Fires of Bacon and the ominous Antispank! The story is as follows: Unaware of the myth of The Baconing, the hero DeathSpank, on a boring day in Spanktopia, decided to try on all of the...