“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” – Sherlock Holmes 1898 London is alight with rumor and suspicion. Sherlock Holmes, the greatest detective in the country, possibly the world, is suspected to be at the heart of a crime involving fraud and robbery. The Deerstalker hat sporting sleuth’s credibility has been marginalized, not...
Sony Online Entertainment, (or S.O.E for those of you with an acronym fetish) and ACONY (No word on that being an Acronym) are teaming up to bring you, Bullet Run. This will be a release for the Personal Computer(PC) that is a first person shooter(FPS) and will be Free To Play (FTP). The game takes place in the future where shooting dudes is the new hot reality show that people tune in to watch! This is a concept I would like to see applied to the cast of Jersey Shore, but...
Fancy a little bit of Command & Conquer while you wait for C&C Generals 2? Well, thanks to Electronic Arts, now you can! Right now, you can go and play EA’s new browser based, strategy MMO called, Command and Conquer Tiberium Alliance. You will take up arms as either the GDI or NOD factions and play against each other as well as AI controlled opponents. This game is free-to-play and it is totally cross-platform, with later support for not only cloud saves, but...
Square-Enix is releasing a bunch of promotional stuff for its upcoming open world game, Sleeping Dogs, which is due out this summer. So enjoy some eye candy! Game looks interesting, and if you want to check it out, it will drop August 14th for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC
Well, that was a bit of a letdown. After 2 years of build-up and what many thought would be an epic showdown between two of the most talented developers in recent memory and the biggest publisher in the business, Activision…blinked first. Activision announced today that they settled with the outed Infinity Ward devs Jason West and Vincent Zampella, as well as the other plaintiffs seeking damages towards unpaid bonuses. The terms of the settlement are being kept...
The headline above speaks for itself. Well, ok I’ll elaborate a little bit more. This fall, a new Super Monkey Ball game is coming out for the first time on the Playstation Vita! The “hilarious” name will be Super Monkey Ball Banana Splitz and is going to be released October 23. This looks like pretty much what you would expect out of a Monkey Ball game. Baby, AiAi, MeeMee and Gon muther f’n Gon all make their return. There will be 100 stages to...
Oh Diablo 3, you sure had a hell of a first week out in the wild blue yonder that is the PC Gaming world. I mean, you sold 3.5 Million copies in the first 24 hours, coupled with the 1.2 million that got a copy as part of World of Warcraft Annual Pass promotion and well, you have been making a couple of shekels to rub together. Oh and the numbers don’t stop there Mr.D3. As of week one, you accumulated a whopping 6.4 million players at your beck and call. This...
Yesterday, Ubisoft and Redlynx had announced that their rage and hate stimulator game, Trials Evolution, had amassed a whopping 500,000 people when it got released on Xbox Live Arcade a month ago. This is not surprising, especially considering Trials HD released three years ago was until recently, the best selling XBLA game of all time. So in addition to breaking controllers the 500,000 mark, Redlynx wanted to share that their user created content portion called Track...
EA Sports sure has been busy. What with the changes that they are making to FIFA 13 (written by yours truly here), and with the NHL playoffs currently in the Semi-Final stage, EA is currently working hard on bringing the most realistic ice hockey experience that can be delivered. NHL 13 is bringing with it, two big changes that will help give the player even more control in what EA dubs as “the biggest change to the franchise since the introduction of the Skill Stick...
Croatia (located here) is a country contains many, many things. A Universal Health Care system, a soccer team by the name of Dinamo Zagreb, and now a videogame studio by the name of Gamepires! And they want you to know of their car combat game. Here is an excerpt from the press release. Strap on your safety belt and charge your turbodrive, because the other guys on this track have murder on their minds. But that’s the name of the game in “Gas Guzzlers: Combat...
