30 Sep

Fallout in Retrospective

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by Ravi Sinha “This ash coloured dawn is something new, yet the wandering souls are few; their bones melt like sand against your feet, the air dry and uneasy yet simply to breathe. How long has it been since you knew you were safe? How long have we known we can go back out again? [...]

29 Sep

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (Review)

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by Ravi Sinha Sonic the Hedgehog was always touted by Sega fans as Mario’s one true competitor, before Sega discontinued hardware manufacture and brought the famed blue furball to all major consoles. Nonetheless, leaving his recent bungling 3D forays aside, it was always a given that Sonic could match up on the action/platform level and [...]

29 Sep

Xbox 360 Slim: An update

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by gSathe At the Human Weapon Gaming Night organised by The History Channel on Friday, September 26th, Microsoft India’s Retail Services Manager Rahul Datta was also present as various 360 games were being used to promote the event. While there, he spoke to members of the gaming press, and talked about the holiday bundle and [...]

27 Sep

8 Things You Need To Know About Rock Band 2

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by Kuriakose Saju I’m tired of doing the plain, straight-forward review. Especially with a title like Rock Band 2. Everyone knows about this MTV-produced, EA-distributed rival to Guitar Hero where you simulate a rock band. Instead, I’m gonna take this title and pitch it against Guitar Hero World. Given that the makers of Rock Band [...]

27 Sep

Microsoft India reveals XBox 360 Slim

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For the honest doubts this post raised, read the update here. At a recent event held in Delhi, Microsoft revealed some very interesting pieces of information. For one thing, most sites have posted conspiracies and possible shots of what appeared as the console’s slim version; Engadget received a tip as far back as May concerning [...]

26 Sep

Now, pay to learn to play

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For something that was once a mere pastime (and to many, still is), gaming has come a long way in India. When the first few made it to the top of national gaming tournaments by dint of slick keyboard skills and joystick awareness, gaming moved a little closer to what is the mainstream today. Perhaps [...]

26 Sep

GTA Chinatown Wars: What Did You Expect?

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Despite the success and critical reception of both GTA Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories for the PSP, Rockstar had recently announced the cel-shaded and isometric GTA Chinatown Wars for Nintendo’s DS platform. The game will take place in the more NY-esque Liberty City which Nico Bellic hell-raised to the ground in GTAIV. A [...]

24 Sep

Spore accused of infecting gamers’ computers

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This just in. Electronic Arts, makers of the MMO Spore, has been sued. Gamepolitics.com brings us this: Electronic Arts, a leading maker of computer games, defrauds consumers through its “Spore” game, which “completely wipes their hard drive” and replaces it with an undisclosed program that prevents the computer from operating under some circumstances and disrupts [...]

24 Sep

Interplay’s Fallout MMO? Chris Taylor on board

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All excited/totally bamboozled by Bethesda’s Fallout 3, which you are sure will deliver/fail miserably? So are we (and for some people, it’s both views)! The perspective looks nifty and the game is rendered in gorgeous 3D that properly showcases the Fallout brand of “horrific beauty”. It would be even better if the game played nice [...]

24 Sep

This one is PURE adrenalin!

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by Kuriakose Saju It has been exactly a day since Disney came out with their quad-bike racer Pure and I’m already hooked. Why? It’s like what I had said earlier in my post about Skate 2. The best and probably the most basic reason behind rocking videogames is the virtual experience of doing something you’d [...]