Feb
3
EVE’s GoonSwarm alliance collapses
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Just hours ago, an entire corner of EVE’s universe was plunged into confusion when GoonSwarm – a dominant force for several years and one of the game’s longest standing alliances – started disbanding. Judging by the frenzied activity on the game’s official corp and alliance discussion forum, it seems they have now dissolved completely [...]
Jan
23
Guild Wars 2 is sounding good
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One of the Guild Wars 2 developers recently chimed in on a forum thread dicussing the sound effects of the game. They went into the details of exactly how they’re going about the job, and revealed that several effects such as footsteps and armor noise are generated procedurally. If you play with sound enabled (especially [...]
Jan
19
Oi, nutter! Nintendo’s early 2010 lineup
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Straight from Twitter (courtesy of UFHO2) comes this list of what Nintendo plans to release over the coming three months. There’s some good stuff there, but also some glaring omissions. It’s hard, I know, but do try not to be too surprised when I say…
What, no Wii Cave Story?!
No sign of NIGORO’s [...]
Jan
15
Gran Turismo 5? You’ll be lucky!
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It made me laugh when I heard from a follow gamer in work today that Gran Turismo 5’s release date of March for Japan has been pushed back yet again, this time indefinitely.
While us poor old westerners have never been given a solid idea of when we might see our version of the game, this [...]
Dec
9
Guild Wars 2 races trailer
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ArenaNet have released another trailer for Guild Wars 2, and this time it shows off a few tasty clips of what seem to be in-game combat. Without too many more words, check it out here!
The more I see of the diminutive Asurans, the more I’m convinced that’ll be the race I’ll start out with. A [...]
Dec
1
Going Live: EVE’s Dominion
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There aren’t a lot of MMOs that I’m following at the moment (apart from an occasional glance at Aion and feverish anticipation of Guild Wars 2) – but this caught my eye.
It seems that today is the day when the Dominion expansion for EVE is released, laying the groundwork for a most ambitious vision of [...]
Nov
29
The Online Oldschool
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I snatched up Madballs in… Babo: Invasion [link] yesterday in Steam’s holiday sale and had a ton of fun in the multiplayer. I’ve been racking my brains trying to remember exactly which game it reminded me of, then it struck me like a swarm of rockets – the ol’ classic BaboViolent [link], of course! It’d [...]
Oct
13
All Steamed up for Torchlight
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To continue with a similar theme…
Runic Games just announced that their hotly-anticipated action RPG Torchlight [link] will be available on Steam from the first day of release (October 27th). Previously you’d have had to wait an extra month if you wanted to buy the game this way, but there’s no need for [...]
Aug
21
Juicy info ahoy!
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Blizzard will will kicking off 2009’s BlizzCon very shortly, and those who have subscribed to the live internet TV stream will see the hot news as it happens – but there are also plenty of other ways to keep up to date with developments! There are plenty of blogs (such as Massively and Joystiq amongst [...]
Jun
19
A new home for the underdogs
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Superb news! Possibly the best “ethical” abandonware site that ever was has been put back into action. A group of determined individuals seem to be working their socks off to reincarnate Home of the Underdogs after several years of stagnation! I wish them the best of luck… it’s not the smallest of [...]






