Looking at the latest TV Coca Cola ad starring famed Bollywood actor Aamir Khan and a very strange animated avatar – as a gamer and a game character respectively – you might think that they’re taking a silent stand on which console they prefer. The ad shows Aamir clearly holding an Xbox 360 wireless controller, [...]
By Ravi Sinha Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has received nearly god-like acclaim if the onslaught of professional reviews is to be believed. The Playstation 3 exclusive has been lauded for combining stellar graphics and nuanced touches with an excellent full-blown action adventure that sees Nathan Drake investigating the mystery of Marco Polo’s 13th century ill-fated [...]
“Imagine living in a commune where everyone loves what they do and does their all for the community, but instead of growing hemp and playing hacky sack, you are making kick ass video games and playing hacky sack.” This was Lead Game Designer Christian Allen’s answer when asked what it was like to work at [...]
Lanai Gara or Fidget, the #1 Call of Duty: World at War player in Free-for-All and one of the newest additions to Ubisoft’s all-girl pro gaming panel The Frag Dolls, has visited us in our dreams (and headlines) before. Now she returns, this time with an even more hard-won achievement: Being the first girl gamer [...]
Martin Ball is 17 years old. He lives in Stoke-on-trent, Mid-lands in the United Kingdom. He also happens to be a highly gifted graphics artist who created high polygon, low polygon, wire-frames etc. for some of the most famous weapons and vehicles in the Halo-verse.
Not that Square-Enix actually put up a big banner saying so, but any one who even slightly cringed at the whiny shenanigans of Final Fantasy XIII’s voice cast will doubtless agree: This game would have been better with just a Japanese VO (voice over) and subtitles rather than the team going the whole hog with [...]
By Ravi Sinha This isn’t 2006. This isn’t the launch of the Playstation 3. Blu-ray is no longer under intense scrutiny against HD-DVD. Sony has fulfilled demands for a lower price and a more compact design – and it’s paying in spades, with hardware sales experiencing thousand-fold percentage increases. It’s also directly bundling Uncharted 2 [...]
Wolfenstein (2009) is a quartet development effort of id Software, Pi Studios, Endrant Studios and Raven Software. Despite the positive critical reaction, the multi-platform title has only sold between 100K-350K units (depending on which site you believe) – much below the par of 2001′s Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Nevertheless, it features a solid mix of [...]
The war against the Nazis in moonlight noir Paris heats up, as Pandemic Studios’ The Saboteur approaches closer to release. Set for release this December, it appears Saboteur will live up to it’s intended legacy of extremity as the ESRB has awarded the game a Mature 17+ rating just recently.
Rob Adams was formerly employed at Naughty Dog Studios for more than 7 years, playing not only a major part in the Jak & Daxter series (including the mediocre Jak X: Combat Racing for the PS2) but also in Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune for the Playstation 3. Now he’ll play a role in a game whose [...]
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