6 Jun, 2011

Spryo’s latest adventure really is magical, it’s going to do something never done by any game before. Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure will enable you to create a Skylander on one platform and use it on any other. Which means, for the first time ever, you can create a character on the Xbox 360, then use it on a Playstation 3, then a 3DS, a mobile...

6 Jun, 2011

Need some further weight behind those Mass Effect 3/Kinect rumours? Bioware are now confirmed to be taking part in the Microsoft E3 Press Conference, later today! Through his Twitter feed, David Silverman, the director of marketing at Bioware, had this to say … ‘Patiently sitting in the green room with a bunch of other companies waiting for our #msft...

6 Jun, 2011

Is all this talk of COD graphs, stats and free map packs making you gooey with glee? Then you’ll be pleased to learn that Activision have confirmed that the COD Elite Open Beta will begin on July 14th. The Open Beta will not be indicative of the full COD Elite experience, we’ll need to wait for Modern Warfare 3 for that, but it will give users an...

18 May, 2011

Title Gatling Gears Platform XBLA/ PSN/ Microsoft Windows (reviewed on XBLA) Developer Vanguard Entertainment Publisher Electronic Arts TWOL: Ten Words or Less Loud and frenetic steampunk dual stick arcade shooter Family Friendly? Click here to skip the detail and see if this game is right for your family! My first thought when playing Gatling Gears for the...

17 May, 2011

Members of the Xbox Community Network (XCN) were recently invited to grill the team behind XBLA’s latest shooter, Gatling Gears. Game Designer Nikki Kuppens was charged with trawling through the community’s questions. Q. What was your inspiration for Gatling Gears? A. People tell me all the time how Gatling Gears reminds them of this and that classic...

6 May, 2011

If you already intend to invest this weekend getting to know BLOPs’ latest DLC pack, Escalation, then you’re in for a treat. Not only can you spend some time acclimatising to the five new maps – including a battle on the roof of a luxury Cuban hotel, a fight in an abandoned zoo, close-quarters combat in an ambushed military convoy and a secret...

6 May, 2011

Xbox have dropped details of blow-stuff-up-crazy Renegade Ops, a new game that’s due to hit the Xbox LIVE Arcade in the not-too-distant future. Developed by Swedish outfit Avalanche Studios, Renegade Ops places gamers in control of a mobile command unit that’s stuck behind enemy lines. Using your skill and the raft of weapons and vehicles at your...

21 Apr, 2011

Yars’ Revenge, the best-selling Atari 2600 game of all time, has just made its re-imagined digital debut on Xbox LIVE Arcade. It has a lot to live up to – has it succeeded? As almost thirty years have passed since the original the re-imagining obviously bears very little resemblance to it’s Atari 2600 grandfather. As I was yet to be born in...