Of course, if Rare Studios wasn’t situated in the continent to begin with, a US release would’ve followed a European date. Regardless, Microsoft recently announced that the most recent Rare sequel in their Banzo-Kazooie franchise, Nuts and Bolts, will release across Europe on November 14th. With Rare routinely coming under fire from all quarters, either [...]
by Ravi Sinha By now you’ve probably read one of the 70 reviews for the newest videogame-to-film adaptation based on Remedy’s infamous shooter Max Payne. The trailers for the film were taut, depicting various hallucinatory angels and stark city backdrops – a true homage to Payne noir. And with Mark Wahlberg still fresh off his [...]
by Vaishak V.K Contrary to the not so popular and entirely fictional belief, Machinima was not coined as the conjugation of Machine and Enema. Rather, a misspelling of Machinema (machine meets cinema), gave birth to the term Machinima, to be specific, person behind the typo and large scale pimping of this genre is Hugh Hancock [...]
At a recent event organised by Milestone in Delhi we got to fiddle around with a lot of games, including Motorstorm : Pacific Rift, or as I like to think of it – Motorstorm with SPLIT SCREEN! Okay, horrible pun right there, but that was to me, the biggest flaw with the original Motorstorm. Possibly [...]
by Vijayendra Mohanty Ok. So I have seen the Spore trailers and read the Spore lovers and gazed in amazement at the Spore haters.
by Kuriakose Saju Every once in while, a fighting title comes along that leaves your jaw hanging in awe. Facebreaker from EA Sports goes one step further. It keeps you entertained with some totally hilarious graphics. With boxers sketched to caricature perfection, the moment you land a punch, you can see your opponent’s eyes bulging [...]
A long time ago, when console games were in 2D and developers made amazing design choices on a modest budget, Chrono Trigger developed by Squaresoft for the Super NES introduced a nifty feature where you only had access to some side-quests and characters depending on what choices you made through the game. Even the endings [...]
And now for an even bigger douche than John Edward. According to Associated Press, 18-day old Jaden Encinas was left in the care of his mother’s room-mate Rene Edward Barrios when she went out to run some errands. While playing an “unspecified game”, the infant began crying, Barrios paused his game, walked into the boy’s [...]
As gamers, we eventually move to that stage of thinking, “I would have probably done this, instead…” while playing a game. Then there are those who simply love gaming so much they’d like to create their own games entirely from scratch. The Internet has always served as a priceless resource for budding game developers, be [...]
by Kuriakose Saju When they first appeared on the scene nearly six years ago, the duo were considered “one of the best games to be seen since consoles became polygonal.” It was the age of the PS2 and this particular shooter/ platformer deprived me of many hours of possible boredom. I remember guiding Ratchet and [...]