Adventure Time DS Game Incoming

YESSSS, exciting news! Adventure Time is getting the DS game it greatly deserves. Creator Pendleton Ward tweeted the announcement last night and provided some DS based drawings to go along with it. Ideally this will be a fully 8-bit game or follow closely the style of the show, anything else will not be acceptable. It was firstly announced as a 3DS game but since then further tweets have clarified that it’s actually a standard DS game,...

US bill to put cigarette-style warnings on video games

Obviously this has come about because it works so well with smokers and now since these warnings about cancer and tar and harming unborn babies are on the pack nobody at all smokes because they're worried about the percentage of benzene, formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide that is going into their bodies. What? ...you mean that's not true? ...you're telling me that nobody actually reads those warnings and takes them to heart? Instead they simply...

10 Days to save Game. Walmart has offered a buyout.

According to a few sources, the troubled GAME Group UK has 10 days to sort itself out otherwise administration looms. That makes March 24th deadline day. It's already been noted that Game are failing to stock major new releases over the coming weeks from Capcom, Nintendo and EA and that their current firesale might not be going too well as customers are using up reward card points to buy rather than cash. Game have many a prospective...

Jet Set Radio HD detailed

The original Dreamcast version of Jet Set Radio (Jet Grind Radio if you're American) was released nearly 12 years ago and it is still probably one of my favourite games, it was so beautiful and infuriating at the same time, it paved the way for cell shaded games and boasted an amazingly varied soundtrack full of very listenable tracks. I’ve been hoping for a port of the game every since Sega announced that they were releasing the Dreamcast versions...

BBC iPlayer to Land on Xbox Next Week

The BBC's catch-up TV service is to land on the Xbox dashboard in the next week and will join the existing offerings from Channel 4 and Channel 5. Microsoft have been trying to sort a deal out with the BBC for some time but stumbled on the beeb's refusal to go along with the Xbox's plan to only offer premium apps to gold subscribers. This was apparently in violation of the BBC's TV license agreements which is something along the...

The Next Xbox Won't Use Discs: Why that's both Good and Bad

This is coming from MCV and if true it means that the daddy of all non disclosure agreements has been broken and I’m betting Microsoft will be pretty pissed off. Last month they held a developers meeting in London which is rumoured to have been the first time they’ve shown off their upcoming hardware to those that need to know about these types of things before the public do. The rumour coming away from this leak is that the next xbox will not...

Bioshock Infinite has a Robot George Washington Boss

I think the title of this post says it all. There's not much more I need to add, it's a robot president with a machine gun. I keep throwing money at the screen but nothing is happening ,why is October the 16th so far aw...

First Video of Tony Hawks Pro Skater HD

Watch Tony and his friend Chris Cole skate in real life while giving you one of the first looks at this summer's Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD. The game features a  remake of some of the best parts of the first two games whilst receiving a glossy make over for 2012.The gameplay is much the same as 12 years ago with 2 minute runs on each level to complete various challenges, some previous skaters from the series return along with some new faces, no word yet if a mixture of songs from the amazing soundtracks will accompany.The game will...

Blizzard Really Want You To Play Warcraft Again

The 'scroll of resurrection' is an offer that Blizzard have where an existing subscriber can grant account time to a  non-subscriber, usually it's just 7 days of free play but for the next 90 days Blizzard have buffed the scroll and instead now both parties get a few rewards. The subscriber gets one of the shiny in-game mounts that you'd usually have to pay for on the Blizzard store, the target party gets themselves one character instantly...

SW:TOR Patch 1.2 starts your Legacy

April sees the next  major game update for Star Wars: The Old Republic.  Arguably it adds alot of features which should have been present from day one, guild banks anyone. There's new flashpoints and operations and more intriguing is the legacy system in which you build a family tree from your existing characters and unlock rewards including a mailbox on your ship and the unlocking of new species (whatever that means). Add to it a (finally) customisable UI,  colour change options on armour, mini pets, new gear, new...

ROCCAT aim to bring together your smartphone and PC for gaming.

ROCCAT, manufacturers of various peripherals for the PC have released pictures of what is to be their upcoming Powergrid range. Normally a list of upcoming keyboards and mice doesn’t interest me unless it’s the game tie-in sets from Razer or the infamous Art. Lebedev keyboard, but this has really hooked me in. Firstly we have the ROCCAT Phobo gaming keyboard, you’ll notice something straight away that’s different form your standard gaming...

The Assassin's Creed III Trailer is Here

So this pretty confirms everything we already knew, American revolution, Native American Assassin. George Washington.  The climbing trees bit is pretty cool though...

A New Look At Halo 4

I for one am quite excited about Master Chief's return as i'm probably one of the few who actually prefer the sci-fi shooter series over any war based offering such as Battlefield or COD, the main reason for this is that overall I just find it more fun. But that's besides the point, i'm not having that argument again. The main thing you'll get from the below video is that the new developers of the Halo franchise, 343, are bigging it up...

Fable Heroes is the next Lionhead offering

Yes it's another Fable tie-in that you're not interested in, or at least i'm not. The Kinect powered Fable: The Journey has already been shown off and from the videos shown that seemed like an on the rails magic shooter. Now come another title that isn't the full RPG game that I and i'm sure many other people actually want. Instead we're to be treated to party game which reminds me alot of a mash-up between Mario Party and Castle Crashers. The...

Artwork: Adventure Time 8-bit Game Intro

So Adventure Time is pretty much the best thing on TV, it deserves to have a decent game tie-in, and if it did have a game then obviously an 8-bit sidescroller is the only way to do it justice.  This is one imagining of how the intro would/should look.  Have a watch.  This is from http://mikegaboury.tumblr.com/ he does some pretty nice looking viedo game artwork so go have a loo...

Mari0 - The Portal/Mario mash-up is now available

Mari0 was announced last year and the video was pretty damn impressive and spread across the net like herpes. Now the day has come, the download has just gone live and best of all it's free. Available in Windows, Mac and Linux flavours. You could do worse than download and play this right now, I mean you could be kidnapped by Somalian pirates and tortured with Celine Dion songs...so... you know...download it and play it. get it here: http://stabyourself.net/mar...

Valve are Building a Console

Chalk this one up as a surprise, just when you think that the home console fight is destined to be a threeway forever, in steps Valve to change it all up. The difference between Valve and anyone else looking to get into the race is that they have the clout to actually pull it off. Valve currently own and operate the massive Steam platform which currently accounts for at least 50% of digital game sales and pretty much anything is available...