It’s around this time of year that the new releases well starts to dry up. Don’t panic, though, because while May’s list of anticipated titles might look slim, it’s packed with more than a few surprises, including radical DLC for Far Cry 3, Metro: Last light’s debut, Donkey Kong’s first …
Read More »RadarPlays – Pure
Everyone made fun of me when I said I wanted them to come play Pure with me. Apparently people don’t know how awesome this game is. How awesome is it? Well, if you take SSX and put it on ATVs and drink a bunch of Red Bulls you have about …
Read More »Need for Speed: Most Wanted Kinect features explained
Criterion and EAlet loose (opens in new tab)some details today about how the Kinect functionality will work in their upcoming open world racing title, Need for Speed: Most Wanted. We’re happy to report that Criterion isn’t planning to force you to play with an invisible steering wheel. The Kinect functionality …
Read More »Forza Horizon hands-on preview – Getting into a new drivers seat
Some of us are drivers who prefer arcade racers, but we’ve always appreciated the Forza series from a distance. But Turn 10’s Dan Greenawalt is convinced that this is the racing game for us. “One of the things about is that it’s not an arcade racing game,” he says. “We …
Read More »GRID 2: Weve played it. Were calling it – Racing games will never be the same again
“The most important racer of this generation (opens in new tab)”. That’s what we called the original GRID (opens in new tab) recently. Can you imagine how good a game could be if the team that created it was given four whole years to make a sequel? No pressure, no …
Read More »Need For Speed: Most Wanted preview – Gameplay is king
“We believe games are better with friends,” says Need for Speed: Most Wanted executive producer Matt Webster. There’s no other way to put it: Criterion Games has created the sequel to Burnout Paradise that we all wanted, albeit with a different name. As was unveiled during EA’s press briefing, Most …
Read More »Forza Horizon features in-game Kinect-activated GPS
In the upcoming open world Xbox 360-exclusive racing title, Forza Horizon from Playground Games, Kinect owners will be finding some new and useful technology to help them navigate the open road. According to the developer, Forza Horizon will be implementing a brand new voice-activated (via Kinect) GPS system to help …
Read More »Forza Horizon preview – How Turn 10 fixed the Forza problem
Forza had a problem. Though it had no issue courting those already indoctrinated into car culture, the focus on authenticity was a turnoff for anyone else. The physics, the beautiful graphics, the realistic gameplay – they were all lost on a majority of gamers. There was no easy solution. Turning …
Read More »Can all TV adverts be like this, please? Burger chain makes awesome OutRun homage in commercial
Ready for a dull advertisement pitch? Right, get this: Two guys decide it’s time to go and buy milkshakes from their local drive-through. They drive there… and get served milkshakes! *Tumbleweed* That’s it. No, really, that’s the plot. Not likely to win any awards, is it? Ah, but there’s a …
Read More »Homebrew denied! Sony closes Vita piracy loophole by removing games from the PlayStation Store
Sony has removed PSP title Everybody’s Tennis from the PlayStation Store after hackers discovered it contained an exploit that allowed them to run PSP homebrew applications on a PlayStation Vita. It follows the removal of MotorStorm: Arctic Edge which was taken down shortly after the new handheld was launched. We …
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