Written by Aaron Mitchell | Tuesday, 09 March 2010 23:16
Mac's have steadly been supplanting Windows PC's as the home, and for many the work, computer of choice for a few years now. About the only thing thats kept us from handing our children over to Steve Jobs to toil in his underground tofu mines is the lack of real support for games on the Mac OS. The only big game developer for PC that supports Mac's in any consistent way is Blizzard whose entire upcoming lineup, including Starcraft 2, Diablo 3 and the next Warcraft expansion, all destined to be mega selling games for the PC, are compatible with both systems.
Well here's some good news for my fellow pretentious douche bags (nya nya, we don't care), we're getting our own Steam network from Valve, complete with all their topshelf products! Woot!
Written by Aaron Mitchell | Tuesday, 09 March 2010 01:36
Fallout: New Vegas is like a sweet answer to my prayers. I was deeply in love with Fallout 3, I haven't even played the last Fallout 3 expansion, Mothership Zeta, in a pathetic effort to extend my time with the game. Sad I know. But now I've seen the screenshots for Fallout: New Vegas, I can happily play out Fallout 3 to its inevitable conclusion safe in the knowledge there's a whole lot more Fallout coming my way this year.
We knew Fallout: New Vegas was going to use the same game engine and have the same general look as Fallout 3, but I'm still surprised how similar the two are in comparison. I expect this will annoy a fair number of people who consider New Vegas to be nothing more than a really big expansion to Fallout 3. But frankly, I'm completely fine with that. More Fallout that looks and feels the same like the last Fallout is absolutely cool with me.
Check after the jump for the rest of the screenshots and some of the new game elements they highlight.
Written by Aaron Mitchell | Sunday, 07 March 2010 23:00
This weekend I had a bit of a gaming funk, finished Mass Effect 2 and planned on finishing a whole bunch of other outstanding games but couldn't summon the enthusiasm. Even a few more runs of the God of War 3 demo (available right now on the PSN) couldn't put a smile on my face after pulling Helios's head of for the fifth time, okay maybe a smirk there.
Then, quite by accident I stumbled over the Just Cause 2 demo as one of the highlights on the Playstation Network and spent almost my entire Sunday afternoon playing this ridiculously addictive demo over and over again. If Just Cause 2 isn't on your radar then fire your sonars and signals people for not picking it up. I can't comment on the full game but the demo's just about the best damn demo I've played for a long time.
Written by Sam Lawrence | Friday, 05 March 2010 16:18
Remember how Socom used to be good? You know, before Socom: Confrontation? Those were the days before Slant Six took one of the premier Playstation franchises and screwed it all up. Well luckily that wasn’t a real Socom game because Sony have just announced Socom 4 and it is being developed “From the ground up for the PlayStation 3” by Zipper.
As if you didn’t know, Zipper is the developer that created the just released MAG with 256 players online and Socom 1,2,3 and Combined Assault on the PS2. Well this Socom game is only going to have a maximum of 32 players but will also have a singleplayer campaign set in South East Asia.
Written by Aaron Mitchell | Friday, 05 March 2010 01:33
Yes I know, you don't care about Halo, because if you did you have all ready seen this trailer several times over with your tongue blowing lazily in the wind. But even if you're not a Halo fanboy, you can't deny this multiplayer trailer is looking pretty bad ass, stealth kills, new game modes and jet packs! I get the impression Bungie has decided they're sick of waiting for a new Tribes game and slipped some verticality into their quintessential shooter. Either that or the jetpacks are the equivalent of a man cannon you carry around with you.
Yes it's a trailer for a Beta, and the fact such thing exists is mind boggling, but damn if it isn't a trailer that does the job.
In these troubled economic times Spare Change? Is your alternative suggestion to that pricey new release title you want so badly you can taste it, read on and discover what morsels your lunch money change can buy you.
So you've dropped a few cruise missiles on someone in Modern Warfare 2? Big freaking deal, I laugh at your cruise missiles and the Freudian implications of your pride at using them. You want epic explosions? You want blistering flames towering into the sky like the pillars of the apocalypse? You want your war porn with extra fallout? Then you need to get your hands on Mercenaries 2 and you can do so right now for, on average, about $16 if you shop around.
Written by Peter Aitchison | Friday, 26 February 2010 20:39
DICE announce day one "download content" via your VIP code when you purchase your NEW copy of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 that will unlock - as opposed to download - two maps that will be otherwise unplayable if you acquire your copy used - assuming the VIP code has been "cashed in" by then.
The code unlocks Laguna Alta area in Conquest mode and Nelson Bay - (this one looks sweet) - in Rush mode. Apparently in March at some stage you will gain access to Arica Harbor in Conquest mode and Laguna Presa in Rush mode. Without the code the initial unlocks will cost you US$15, or 1200ms (just under 20 bucks Au) but details are a fraction sketchy if you'll need to pay more for the second map pack release if you buy a used game. Reason suggests you shouldn't, but, you never know. These maps packs will already exist on the disk so the use of "DLC" is a fraction misleading.
Beats the hell out of me where you'll get a second hand copy early from anyway. Probably worth remembering this if you're considering delaying your purchase of the game.
Written by Sam Lawrence | Friday, 26 February 2010 19:03
Watch This Transformers: War For Cybertron Trailer and be sure to keep a towel or some tissues handy. The new Transformers game is coming from High Moon Studios of the recent Borne Conspiracy game. It is luckily not tied to a movie and thus has a good chance of being... well good. Also don't ask me why it is set before the movies on the planet Cybertron yet the characters look very similar, in both transformed and normal form. Just watch it!
Written by Aaron Mitchell | Saturday, 20 February 2010 00:33
Unless you've been religiously following internet comics over the last five years beyond Penny Arcade you are probably unfamiliar with Kit Ballard, star of science fiction comic strip Blade Kitten. It's a real breakfast cereal of a comic, all bright colours and overdosed with sugar. Kit and the other major categories are Felion (cat people capturing the important furry demographic) bounty hunters tracking down rogue cyborgs and mechs. The creator Steve Stamatiadis has been working for Australian based developer Krome for some time, particularly on the excellent but under appreciated Ty the Tasmanian Tiger game series which has always been a favourite in our house. Blade Kitten has been a slowly evolving and clearly much loved property for Steve and it's making the leap into video games later this year as a Playstation Network title. See the trailer below and if you're impressed check out the Blade Kitten website link here for more info.
Always nice to see Australian developers getting new IP's out there to the public.
Written by Aaron Mitchell | Friday, 19 February 2010 10:40
If you live in South Australia and enjoy video games (and are of voting age) I hope to hell you're giving your support to the independent party Gamers 4 Croydon in their campaign to dethrone Michael Atkinson. In a smart move the G4C party have knocked one of Atkinson's pillars right out from underneath him with a statistical report showing what rating certain gmes have received over seas.
In a recent interview over at Games On Net the candidates for Croyden and the Legislative Council, Kat Nicholson and Chris Prior, answered plenty of questions on their campaign and goals and dropped some impressive factual figures that shoot holes all through the argument against an R18+ introduction.
