14 Nov

Freelance Concept Artist Imagines “Metal Gear Killzone”

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Frank Hong is a 20 year old freelance artist who specializes in digital and matte painting, along with concept and environment art, has drawn some very amazing art inspired by games like Ace Combat 6, Prince of Persia (that recently released) and Dragon Age: Origins. He has some experience working for ImagineFX, Edge of Reality [...]

5 Nov

Walmart’s Modern Warfare 2 Ads Are High on the “Ha-Ha”

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In preparation for their one-minute-after-midnight launch of Infinity Ward and Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on November 10th, American-based department store chain Walmart has created some rather…interesting commercials, including the already famous “Fastest Way to Play” commercial.

22 Jun

Peter Moore: Gaming’s Champion or Publicity Whore?

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You know the old saying: “Don’t shoot shotgun shells against snipers with Quad Damage”? Okay, so it doesn’t quite roll like that, but paraphrasing is only one weapon the gaming industry employs when challenged. After US President Barack Obama remarked about “raising our children to step away from the video games and spend more time [...]

31 Mar

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

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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 [...]

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 [...]

30 Apr

Why GTA4 won’t kill Iron Man

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by gSathe Over the last few days, there’s been a huge number of sites which have run a story saying that the launch of GTA IV will hurt the reception of Iron Man, and this has spun beyond the thousands of blogs out there and made it to the mainstream media as well, bringing “intelligent [...]

1 Apr

Fool’s Day

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by Vijayendra Mohanty There are two kinds of people who have direct dealings with April Fool’s Day. Those who set up the pranks, and those who fall for them. The latter sort can again be divided into two varieties – those who eventually understand that they have been had, and those who need elaborate pointers [...]