By Alec Meer on July 4th, 2011.
Today is a bad day not to already have sixteen gigabytes of Grand Theft Auto IV already installed on your hard drive. Why? Because if, like me, you don’t you’re going to have to wait half a day to download it before you can look at the following incredi-mod yourself. Can it possibly live up to this wonderful, beautiful video? I want to know – but I’m only 5 per cent into the download. And even when it’s finished it probably won’t run anyway. Noooo!
Watch this video watch it watch it watch it…
By Alec Meer on July 4th, 2011.
Batman: Arkham City gets closer and closer, and we get exciteder and excitider, and in the heat of our anticipation become less gramatickly accurate. After what feels like years of teasing, concept art and pre-order incentives, finally we get to take a long, lingering look at what it’s really like in action. Below: 12 minutes of the game, including playable funtimes from both Batman and Catwoman, good acting, awful acting, Two-Face’s disgusting head and many many many goons and hi-tech shenanigans.
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Chilling Times
By John Walker on July 4th, 2011.
Indie traditional point-and-click adventure Alpha Polaris fell out of the sky last week, and confused me by not being awful during its demo. So I got hold of the full version (which costs just under £17) to find out Wot I Think of the whole thing.
By Quintin Smith on July 4th, 2011.
I love these strange burps and backdrafts of information that aren’t really stories, yet they are.
Bioware art director Derek Watts has revealed in an interview with CVG that the studio is having trouble deciding whether to finally reveal the face of party member Tali in Mass Effect 3. Tali has, up till now, sheltered behind the mask that characterises her space-faring people with their terrible immune systems, and in the process has become something of a seductive enigma in the Mass Effect community, as a quick (NSFW) Google image search will prove.
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The AA Will Not Help You
By Tim Stone on July 4th, 2011.
Every year in the UK, recreational 4WD users crush 33,070 primroses, wake 6,312 dormice, and ruin the reveries of 451 nature poets. They’re a menace and yet irresponsible game companies like 1C continue to glorify their activities through titles such as Off-Road Drive. I was so disgusted by the premise of this upcoming release, that I almost returned the preview code, and nearly didn’t spend most of yesterday happily jockeying Land Rovers and Jeeps through Karelian swamps and Rocky Mountain gorges. Read the rest of this entry »
By Alec Meer on July 4th, 2011.
This is odd. Well, I say “odd”, but baffling, userbase-offending marketing decisions seem to be story of Games For Windows Live’s short, obtuse life.
The short story: Games For Windows Live Marketplace is moving to Xbox.com
The long story: Huh?
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By Alec Meer on July 4th, 2011.
First there was one free official soundtrack collection for Portal 2, and now there are two. That’s eighteen more tracks of exciting bleeping, on top of the 22 we’ve already had. There’s a third one yet to come – but will it include The National’s ode to abject misery and Jonathon Coulton’s latest Portal creation? We will probably find out at some point in the near future: that is my official statement on the matter. Yes, you may quote me on it.
Meantime, get over here to grab Music To Test By Volume 2, or just have a peer at the reliably entertaining list of track titles below. SPOILER ALERT: one of the titles is on the spoiley side if you’ve not played the game.
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By Jim Rossignol on July 3rd, 2011.
Sundays. Sundays are for thinking about the future. No, not your future of buying a dog or getting a divorce, The Future. Not familiar with the concept? Well I’d say it’s pretty well documented. I guess you haven’t been doing enough reseach. Speaking of which, let’s do some now. I’ve been checking the internet for clues, some of which I present to you here.
Table Dancing
By Quintin Smith on July 2nd, 2011.
Last week at least a couple of you complained that it’s been ages since our weekly Cardboard Children column covered a board game you could reasonably be expected to take home to meet your mother or non-gamer friends. Something that didn’t feature goblins anywhere at all. Not even in an expansion.
Have you all really bought Survive! already? Well, here’s another one anyway: Tobago. A game of archaeology, buried treasure and open betrayal.
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By Lewie Procter on July 2nd, 2011.
I’m fairly sure Valve are trying to kill me. Over 1,000 games on sale at once? What’s a SavyGamer to do. Well, I stuck the whole sale into a list here, which I will keep up to date with whatever is on sale throughout the Steam Summer sale. Valve aren’t the only one’s with cheap games this weekend though, so here’s my selection of the best deals from across the whole internet. You can always find more cheap games over at SavyGamer.co.uk. Read the rest of this entry »
Welcome to the Speccydome
By RPS on July 2nd, 2011.
A true one-of-a-kind in the latest in our series of highly subjective retrospectives on landmark computer games. This week, writer Paul Dean looks at bizarre, ambitious Spectrum game/band spin-off Frankie Goes To Hollywood – a game of pop music, terraced houses, sperm, Nazi bombers, Reagan spitting at Gorbachev and murder most foul. Confused? Relax, don’t do it, when you want to comment angrily.
I had a lot of tapes for my Spectrum. Some had come with it, some were inherited, and some came from the covers of the flimsy and often monochrome computer magazines of the day. More than a few were borrowed or copied from friends at school and we quickly realised that you could fit an awful lot of pirated Spectrum software onto a 90 minute tape, turning a single cassette into a veritable treasure trove, a pocketful of possibilities that felt heavy at your hip and which you couldn’t wait to run home with.
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