Further establishing the Guinness World Records as an excellent marketing tool, Guinness has bestowed upon Batman: Arkham Asylum the record of the ‘Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game Ever’.
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It’s easy to understand why Batman is such a compelling character. We’ve all thought that with the right amount of money, training, and some slightly science-fiction-level gadgets, we too could...
Films and videogames would seem a match made in heaven, so why are games based on hit movies so bad?
Despite sharing the same demographic of devoted fans, action, sci-fi and fantasy films rarely translate...
I’m coming out of the first three months of shacking up with my boy. We’re still learning each other’s quirks. Some things about the boy are excellent: He makes a great sandwich, he–without...
Judging by the hundreds of reader-submitted tips we’ve received in August pointing to “totally conclusive evidence” of the existence of a slimmer, sexier version of Sony’s home...
It may look like Guitar Hero at first glance, but DJ Hero is anything but. The introduction of a new plastic controller (this time, in the shape of a turntable) certainly changes the feel of the game,...
Nobody ever forgets the old school. This era of a medium sparks a person’s imagination, and infects them with a curiosity about its depth and possibility.
Game publishers aren’t stupid. They...
NFL guru John Madden has told of how he has never believed in the Madden curse – because he was never injured after 11 years on the cover.
He was asked of the curse in this interview and responded:
“No,...
A couple of teenagers wanting to play an X-Box game got more than they bargained for last Friday. They had a fire that almost burned down the house being rented by Kay Baker Smith, grandmother of Dillon...
Very few have ever been able to match what Blizzard Entertainment has done. In less than 15 years, they went from a small independent developer to partners in one of the largest publishing houses in the...
Hardly a surprise, but Sony got on stage today at GamesCom and confirmed what we’ve all known deep down in our hearts: the new, slimmer PS3 is really real. It’ll be out in the first week of...
Another sneak peek at the upcoming The Beatles: Rock Band has been released, which again shows the amazing attention to detail that went into producing a game worthy of the Fab Four’s esteemed catalog....
Blizzard has always been one of those companies that did not worry about piracy at all. They had a very simple way of dealing with it and that was to kill the cd-keys and ban players.
However, in a recent...
Every time a game is successful, critically or commercially, folks start speculating about sequels. Will there be a sequel? How many sequels? When will we see the sequel? What will happen in the sequel?...
When a game is great, we refer to it as a “beer warmer.” The genesis of this term? You sit down for an evening of gaming, open a beer, then find yourself so engrossed in the title that the...