Here’s a video I came across on Cyberspace of an openly homosexual gamer (xxxGayBoyxxx) on Xbox Live getting abuse from various different players. Although he admits that not all the comments were not necessarily hateful it is pretty interesting to hear how many meatheads there are in the gaming world. What’s even more interesting is [...]
PS3 winding up/down to ‘digital media center’ status. Exciting times ahead?
Last Thursday news came through that Sony was selling its PS3 chips to rival Toshiba and is no longer interested in developing the technology further. Yesterday we heard that PlayStation is currently begging games developers not to forget about its console (having previously taken a very arrogant stance towards them), and now it’s being reported [...]
Xbox Sneakers
These are pretty horrible. But its footwear, and games. So it goes in. Madeby Heelys Gamer. Don’t have anything else to say.
HMV finally begins to get a clue with games zone
HMV is launching its new gamin center at one of its flagship stores in Edinburgh. It will turn itself into an old fashioned arcade where you can hang out with your mates, smoke round the corner and get the older lads to buy cider for you.
In all seriousness this decision makes perfect commercial sense - [...]
Grant Turismo 5 looks incredible
Here’s two pics, one of them is from Gran Turismo 5 and the other is real life. Which is which?
You’ll find more screenshots here
Analysts on the new 40GB PS3
It appears all the research they’ve done points to the fact that I’m right. In fairness, not putting backwards compatibility in there smacks of a company blatantly being total assholes. And no one likes an asshole, therefore PS3 looks to be slightly screwed.
If anyone would like to correct me on that please do. I’m all [...]
Thundercats movie to be directed by Gears of War artist
Jerry O’Flaherty, the genius behind the art direction on Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 3 will be taking the directors chair for the upcoming Thundercats movie. Whether the whol movei will be done in CGI remains unclear but we can only assume that this is the case as O’Flaherty said to Variety: “It feels [...]
Ceramic white 40GB PS3 launched in Japan
Check it out. This is the sexier version of the PS3 which is due to launch in here in Europe in November. I have no idea if the white will be launched here at the same time but let’s hope so – looks pretty sweet.
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EA hurt other games developers feelings with The Simpsons
EA Games has had to pull material from its new Simpsons game as they had scenes in it which riled other games developers. Surprisingly, Rockstar appears to be one of them. Greg Rizzer the lead designer on the Simpsons game told Computer and Video Games: “I was always under the impression that when you do [...]
