31 Mar

Rumour: Halo 3 PC in 2009, Gears of War to Stay Xbox-Exclusive?

Filed under: Gaming News and Reportage, Miscellaneous 5 Responses

Their showing at this year’s Game Developers’ Conference 2009 may not exactly reaffirm hopes but Microsoft has been very active as of late, albeit in secret. Besides rumours of new IPs from Rare doing the rounds, Microsoft Game Studios, the main in-charge of the Xbox and Games for Windows game division, has been doing the [...]

29 Mar

Konami’s Negligible 360 Support: Why MGS5 Will Stay on PS3

Filed under: Feature, Game Reviews and Opinion 54 Responses

If Valve is the anti-PS3, then meet the slightly less but ultimately anti-360 developer. Konami has been making the rounds lately with their teasing announcement of the next Metal Gear Solid. The rumours have already begun flying on whether the game will focus solely on Raiden or if it will be set between the main [...]

27 Mar

The Next MGS: And So it Begins…

Filed under: Game Reviews and Opinion, Gaming News and Reportage 4 Responses

If you’ve been tuned into the Game Developers’ Conference 2009, then the obvious is an understatement: This is a Sony affair. A new Zelda for the DS, motion controls for the 360 (courtesy of a third party) but for the most part, it’s the Sony fans who should be really excited. Besides more gameplay footage [...]

26 Mar

The Unholy Blasphemies of Gaming

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No matter what the era, classics are still recognisable in the eyes of their followers…and are still called into question by some mook or another. An issue once thought as harmless becomes a flaming wreckage of ideals and mass stupidity so as to no longer warrant any clean conversation amongst fanboys. Some times, the simple [...]

26 Mar

Casual Thursday: GlueFO 2.0

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by gSathe

Okay. It needs to be said.
And really quickly.
GlueFO 2.0 is awesome! It’s one of the coolest takes on Asteroids in a really long time. Other games, like Echoes, for example, or Geometry Wars, refined the original concept. Dodge was an excellent example of how the original game could be turned on its head – [...]

22 Mar

Is Big Sister a Rip-off of Resident Evil 3’s Nemesis?

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By Ravi Sinha
Bioshock 2’s been gaining steam in it’s coverage aided no less by it’s venerable “Big Bad” and overwhelming force, Big Sister. As the development team noted in Game Informer’s massive preview of the game, if you disrupt the balance of Rapture then Big Sister appears to “even” things out. Literally speaking, she materializes [...]

21 Mar

Breaking News: EA Closes India Branch

Filed under: Gaming News and Reportage 10 Responses

Electronic Arts, publisher of such hits as Left4Dead and Need for Speed, has closed it’s India branch earlier this March. According to ex-Head Marketing Manager Yashdeep Bali, the closure was due to “global corporate restructuring” and the group is presently in the process of relocating to Singapore to continue operations. EA President of Asia Jon [...]

20 Mar

Dragonball Evolution: It’s Not Just a Movie, It’s a Circle of Hell

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Some times, when watching nightmarish cinematic renditions of long-scripted, explicit torture like Saw or Hostel, it’s enough to comfort to say, “It’s only a movie”. But when the torture is as implicit, as vilely penetrating into every aspect of all you hold sacred like Dragonball Evolution…and when you realize from the beginning that the cast [...]

18 Mar

F.E.A.R. 2: Textbook Example of a Cover System in an FPS

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F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, being a true sequel to the original horror and action fest, is now more than a month old but I confess to only recently getting my hands on the game. Besides offering fast and furious gun play, tough enemies and the abrupt, psychological attacks of Alma’s appearances, F.E.A.R. 2 also struck [...]

17 Mar

Halo Wars – Reviewed

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by gSathe
Halo Wars does a lot of things right, and quite a few things wrong too. There were a lot of expectations riding on the game – heir to the Halo legacy, the swan song of Ensemble, and with any luck, the game which could turn the RTS into console territory. It doesn’t quite manage [...]