Whoever at Activision thought of employing PlatinumGames to make a Transformers game should get a pay rise; not only is it a fun game with a strong arcade like challenge but for the first time gamers are getting a title that brings back good memories of the early […]
If the modern twin stick shooter tried to look itself up on ancestry.com, odds are it will find that all paths lead to Robotron: 2084. Designed and developed by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar after their previous success with Defender, the game was released by Williams in 1982 […]
Gearbox Software has just announced that Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, their first completely new entry in the franchise since acquiring the rights, will arrive in the new year on January 20. The game is being developed by Blackbird Interactive who consist of veterans of Relic Entertainment that had […]
When Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition arrived, it was a port of the 360/PS3 game for the newly arrived Xbox One and PS4, the quality of the overall package made me think a sequel would have some trouble equalling a game that became a surprise favourite of mine. I’m […]
Polygon has an excellent article on the soon to arrive Horizons update for Elite: Dangerous (in beta) that does a great job in explaining what a user’s experience will be like when they try out their first planetary landing and scuttle about the surface in their own buggy. […]
The next big DLC update for Halo 5: Guardians lands next week and brings with it added goodness for fans of the series. Entitled “Cartographer’s Gift”, this new update not only includes new maps and REQ items (including the return of the classic Halo rocket launcher) but the […]
Tickets for next year’s PAX Australia are now available – if you buy before the end of the year a few dollars can be saved from the regular price. Also worth noting is that the dates have changed and the event will now be a week later than […]
Following up from the quick turnaround for tickets to this year’s Penny Arcade Expo, emails were sent out announcing that from December 8th (10am AEDT) fans will be able to purchase their single day and three day passes at a discount if they do so prior to Christmas. […]
In the early days 8bit computer gaming, there was one title everyone I knew was playing on their Commodore 64s and that was Dennis Caswell’s Impossible Mission, published by Epyx in 1984. Though multiple ports of the game were released in the years after the C64 version, it […]
Just in time for the new Star Wars movie, EA and DICE have rebooted a popular game from the franchise’s past in the form of Star Wars Battlefront. With two previous games giving players the chance to jump into large scale conflicts on the side of the Rebels […]