Oct 7, 2010

First person shooter video games are big business. Over the last few years, publishers have tried to make them more relevant and adult by concentrating on things like writing and plot, with varying degrees of success (Modern Warfare 2, anyone?). Homefront, created by Kaos Studios and published by THQ, is pulling out all the stops with its frighteningly...

Oct 6, 2010

After hearing plenty about the Wii’s motion control in The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest, a new trailer has emerged displaying how to utilise the waggles of PlayStation Move when it comes to swinging sword and shield. It looks to control as expected with the disco ball wand representing sword swings, and the button heavy left hand controller...

Oct 5, 2010

Right, this is going to sound weird, but Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit looks like a NFS from the PS1 days. Honestly, the first thing we thought of was Need For Speed 2, the one in which you could pop in the cheat to race around as a T-Rex instead of a car (with hilarious crashing into bridges too low for a T-Rex head to pass under). It has that crunchy graphic...

Oct 5, 2010

“I’m basically just pizza delivery boy today.” That’s how Alex Evans, co – founder of Media Molecule, half seriously explains his one day only presence at the Eurogamer Expo to me. Indeed, developers and fans alike are sharing pizza when I arrive at the row of TVs running LittleBigPlanet 2 – which initially sets me off screaming with...

Oct 4, 2010

No matter which publishers are your favourite it’s important to remember that they are all, at the end of the day, businesses. This has led to them coming in for a lot of criticism from games fans over the years, being blamed for everything from rushing a game out early to maximise profit to suppressing fresh and exciting ideas. Speaking to us at the...

Sep 30, 2010

Giving us some insight into the Wii version of The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment UK have released a new trailer with a behind the scenes look at the game. The video features Headstrong Games creative director, Tancred Dyke-Wells who talks about what makes the Wii version of the game so unique and what they wanted...