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The XMB on the PS3 is a very different animal than the Xbox 360 Tabs or Avatar interface. The XMB is an entity of pure function. It’s easy to grasp and easy to navigate. At launch it was rather plain and feature lacking, but over the years Sony has steadily improved on it. [...]

After years of hype and drama Guerrilla Games dropped Killzone 2 onto shelves February 26th 2009. Hyped as the best looking console game to date many doubted it could live up to it’s lofty goals. For a while there it looked like Killzone 2 might fall short, as release crept closer and closer the [...]

Assault on Dark Athena is the sequel to the critically acclaimed “Escape from Butchers Bay”. In fact the previous title will be remade and included on the Dark Athena disc. Developed by Tigon Studios, Starbreeze Studios, and published by Atari, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena will be dropping April 7th [...]

Gamesworkshop brings another of their stellar tabletop licenses to gamers screens. Blood Bowl pits 8 races against each other in a mix of American Football and Dark Fantasy Warfare. You can win by either score touchdowns or eliminating the other team.

A new trailer for the sequel to 2007s Lost Planet, Lost Planet 2. It is ten years later and the ice has melted this new story takes place in the jungle using an updated version of the MT Framework. Capcom has stated it is developing the title for the Xbox 360 but has released no [...]

Damnation, the steampunk shooter developed by Blue Omega and published by Codemasters, is set for release Q2 2009. Damnation evolves the shooter genre with its unique and exhilarating combination of fluid action and combat, featuring huge, open environments, frenetic combat, daredevil acrobatics and high-octane vehicle-based stunts. Presenting players with an intense test of [...]

Flamebait game journalism has been going on strong for about, well since the latest console war started. However it didn’t lose total legitimacy until this fall when the PS3 finally got an influx of quality titles. Six months later the argument is pointless and still going on. Is LittleBigPlanet a Halo killer? Is Barbie [...]

The PC has fallen from it’s once glorious position as the platform from which all innovation sprung. The PC was the home of the first curved surfaces (Quake 3), the place where all console FPS now get their “cutting edge features”, no more. The PC has largely been reduced to a port platform save [...]

For hardcore gamers Sega has been a disappointment. After the death of the Dreamcast Sega seemed to have lost it’s mojo. Most of it’s releases have been mediocre at best. A plethora of forgettable Sonic games and host of shoddy racing titles litter the video game landscape. It is odd then that once rivals, who [...]

The navel gazing continues as what does and does not constitute “Game Journalism”. We’ve decided that at the beginning of every article we post about “Game Journalism” we will have a disclaimer that everyone should keep in mind when reading any game article. The Disclaimer is as follows…