Colin McRae: DiRT 2: PC Review

Format: PC (Version reviewed), 360, PS3, Wii, PSP, DS Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: Codemasters Developer: Codemasters Players: 1-8 Site: http://www.dirt2game.com/ DiRT 2 is the seventh instalment in the long running Colin McRae series and despite the Rally legend’s untimely death in 2007, the franchise shows no signs of slowing down. The DiRT series...

Dragon Age Awakening announced

 Today sees the release of the Dragon Age DLC entitled Return to Ostagar, but there’s more DLC on the way, confirmed by todays announcement from EA. Spoilers follow. Awakening will pick up where the Dragon Age story left off, with the destruction of the Archdemon and the supposed end of the Blight. It sees our character travelling to the land of...

Michael Pachter – 2009 a difficult year for gaming

In our interview with Michael Pachter we discussed the idea of a games industry crash, but despite a poor year in terms of sales, Pachter believes things will improve in 2010. He stated “We had a difficult year, primarily due to tough year-over-year comparisons for Wii hardware sales and for music genre sales, and I think both of these correct next...

GameStream – Why are games and the mainstream media still at odds?

I’ll start this article with a disclaimer – to truly examine the relationship between gaming and mainstream media, it’d probably take a University thesis, around 756 cigarettes, twelveteen source books and an ungodly amount of coffee. Instead, this article hopes to look at how gaming has been portrayed in the media recently and hopes to draw a few...

Left 4 Dead original survivors to return in Left 4 Dead 2 DLC

Valve have announced the first piece of DLC for Left 4 Dead 2, which according to Rock Paper Shotgun will see the survivors from Left 4 Dead meeting their sequel counterparts. You’ll be playing as the second set of survivors for the meeting and as yet there’s no information on how this is going to work, or whether the originals will be...

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