God of War Collection for PlayStation 3

God of War and God of War II remastered in 720p HD with anti-aliased graphics running at 60 frames per second with Trophy support, all on a single Blu-ray Disc

So, before God of War III hits next years in March, this is the perfect reason to revisit Hades and all of its cheerful neighboring locations [...]

Weekend Distraction™

Welcome to the Weekend Distraction™, where we provide you with only the highest in quality time-wasting flash games, videos, and interesting links. With us, your Life™ can have Meaning™ again!
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Do you remember an old game called Tube from Bullfrog? Well, Run is a little like it, but not entirely.  The idea is simple enough – [...]

Feature review: Wolfenstein

Feature review: Wolfenstein

The long-awaited continuation of American super-agent William “B.J.” Blazkowicz’s foray deep into enemy territory has finally arrived, and it’s dripping with old-school throwbacks and occult investigations. Can it stand its ground in the heavily entrenched frontlines of first person shooters? Let’s have a look…
It’s 1943; the fictional German town of Isenstadt is under SS rule. [...]

OCZ offers Intel competition in the SLC based SSD Market

“The Agility EX offers consumers the most cost effective SLC solid state storage solution on the market, and when customers take all the benefits of SLC into consideration, the total cost of ownership of these drives truly shines through.”
It is with this statement, that OCZ announce the release of their new Solid State Disk drive, [...]

Apogee and Rise of the Triad to return?

Apogee Software (known for Duke Nukem before he went senile) founder Scott Miller was recently interviewed by Gamasutra. In the lengthy article detailing the twenty-odd years of his career, Miller reveals that Apogee, along with one of their hit games of yesteryear, Rise of the Triad: Dark War, are being revived.
“There’s actually another company now [...]

Feeling board?

Feeling board?

Recent weeks have been particularly chock-full of interesting and easy ways to kick-start your game development career. But there’s something of a trump card that hasn’t yet been revealed: the humble board game.
“But sir!” I hear you cry, “I’m here to make videogames! What’s with this analog nonsense all of a sudden?”
Slappity slap, heathen. There’s [...]

NAG September 2009 issue

NAG September 2009 issue

The September issue of NAG will be on shelves tomorrow (the 27th of August), and it’s packed with tantalising previews as we move closer to the Q4 rush, as well as a chunk of reviews to keep you going until Modern Warfare 2 arrives. There are two Q&As – Halo ODST and Assassin’s Creed II, [...]

Update: No Commandos after all…

Earlier this week we reported that the classic game series Commados would be making a comeback. According to the Spanish sister-site of Eurogamer, who contacted Pyro, they’re not working on a sequel. Well dang, that sucks. Who’s to blame? Gamer.nl, who made the whole thing up.

A look at SSDs, part 1

A look at SSDs, part 1

Did you know that the main performance bottleneck in your PC is your hard drive? The hard drive is the one component that hasn’t seen any fundamental changes since it was first introduced in 1956 by IBM, and is long overdue for a replacement.
Enter the Solid State Disk (SSD). Providing sub-1ms access times, it brings [...]

Commandos Comeback

Remember Commandos, the series of PC games from the late 90s where you controlled several commandos, utilizing their unique abilities to avoid detection and blow stuff up? No? You missed out, actually. It was tough, no doubt about it – enemies had a ’sight cone’ that if you strayed into, you were dead – but [...]

STALKER: Call of Prypiat release date: November

You kept asking us when the next STALKER will arrive, and now we can tell you (see, it’s not that hard to be patient). During its GamesCom conference in Germany today, Namco Bandai has unveiled that it will be handling publishing for GSC Game World and their latest offering, STALKER: Call of Prypiat.
It’s set for [...]

Diablo III: fourth character class revealed

There seems to be a lot of COMS and CONS going on at the moment, because while GDC/GAMESCOM winds down this weekend, BLIZZCON is kicking into high gear. With BLIZZCON 09 currently belching news into the gaming ether of the internet, one can expect some long-awaited updates on their upcoming games. For instance, they’ve just [...]

Weekend Distraction™

Welcome to the Weekend Distraction™, where we offer up the best in Flash games or videos or funny links or whatever, to help you while away the hours while waiting for that horrible time-waste called a weekend to be over. Everyone hates weekends, right? Two days of nothing but rest and relaxation, who needs it. [...]

Dude, what happened to your phone?!

Dude, what happened to your phone?!

I’ll admit, cellphones are not on top of most gamers’ minds. After all, a phone must just be capable of calling people, MMSing, and loggin onto Mxit, right? Wrong.
Today, the modern cellphone has either taken over, or completely assimilated markets that used to belong to MP3 players, portable movie players, and PDAs. This boom in [...]

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