Gamers in Bombay have a little bit of fun coming their way this weekend, as Sony is hosting a 48-hour gaming experience in Phoenix Mills, from 1pm – 9pm on both Saturday and Sunday. The entry is completely free for anyone interested and it sounds like it should be a lot of fun – the [...]
It’s been a heavily hectic year, and there’s been so much news at the year’s end that a few things slip by without due record, but we were just cleaning up the loose ends here and noticed something we had let slip by. Well, rectifying past wrongs, here it is: early this month, Microsoft announced [...]
by gSathe This is the original, unedited text of my article for The Hindustan Times, which was first printed in the HT on Sunday, July 26, and was commissioned for the paper, which wanted to run a piece on violence on videogames from a gamer’s perspective which would be accessible to non-gamers as well. For [...]
by Ravi Sinha Microsoft’s new Jasper chipset – with a 65nm die (older systems had a 90nm die) – appears to address the burgeoning Red Ring of Death (RRoD) woes. According to VentureBeat (famous for their RRoD expose in September), the Jasper systems have a 150-watt power supply, and a smaller graphics chip, so the [...]
by Ravi Sinha The border between gloss and reality – this is the Mirror’s Edge for Faith. And Mirror’s Edge for gamers? Well, one minute you’re breathlessly sliding under girders and navigating gigantic waterways, tensely dodging stray bullets – and the next you find your jump off by a few centimeters, plummeting your body into [...]
Microsoft’s Major Nelson, when not having to explain the unknown origins of his name, has announced that you can now snag that shiny demo of Tomb Raider: Underworld on XBox Live. No details yet about which levels are included, but there’s 1.27 GB of underwater and on-land bang for your buck. Oh, and the graphics [...]
LittleBigPlanet reviews have already begun pouring in, with everything all hunky-dory. Some going as far as to say that, “Sony has beaten Nintendo at its own game”. However, yesterday, as the Media Molecule servers went live, several problems were detected. And not just “50% of the levels being untested, broken and unfun” or the “Kratos [...]
If you’ve been keeping track of the flip-flopping (at least, we have), LucasArts will not be bringing The Force Unleashed to PC. Overall development for the market is still alive — though hearing Producer Cameron Suey speak on the overall exclusion of a PC Unleashed isn’t exactly uplifting. “The PC being the gaming platform that [...]
Happy Hallmark day everyone, it’s been a bad week here and no updates could take place, and I thought about bunging all of the stored up updates in one go today but I’ve decided to drop most of them instead. There’s an update which will come up a bit later today and more will follow [...]
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