A routine bit of maintenance on the PlayStation Network last week has gone a little pear-shaped, it seems, with users in Europe complaining that post-update they’ve been unable to access content they’ve already paid for. While North American users appear unaffected, the problem has struck hundreds of users in PAL territories like Britain, continental Europe…
The very fancy, highly-anticipated Creation Kit for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be out this Tuesday, Bethesda’s Pete Hines has revealed. “For our Skyrim PC fans, the Creation Kit is on track for release on Tuesday”, Hines wrote on Twitter. “And, we also have a special surprise with it.” That special surprise may already have…
There’s a lot of talking here at the beginning. A lot of boring crafting stuff. Stick with it. Eventually, you’ll see that you really can get lightsabers in Skyrim. And canon be damned, they are awesome The mod has actually been available since late last year. If you don’t have it installed, get on it!…
A few weeks back, the future of THQ’s Warhammer 40K: Dark Millennium MMO was very much up in the air. Comments early yesterday had seemed to ease fears over the project, but comments later yesterday brought the fears right back. It seems beleaguered publisher THQ doesn’t have the stomach or coin to fully back the…
Multiplayer shooter Hawken snuck into our collective megacity last year and stole our robotic hearts. Sadly, it’s been a very long time since we heard or saw anything about the game. To satisfy both yours and our appetite for more hot giant mech fighting action, then, here’s a collection of mechs, tanks, robots and other…
Time for a little antipodean rock n’ roll on Soundtrack tonight, I think. This is Monty, from Spiderbait’s finest work, 1995’s The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake Another standout from the same album is Sam Gribbles. For something a little older, and which may be the most Australian song you will ever hear, see…
Next week, Ubisoft will be moving around some of its servers. What this means for those of you saddled with Ubisoft PC (and Mac!) games that have restrictive DRM is that, in some cases, your games won’t work while the move takes place. At all PC games affected include Tom Clancy’s HAWX 2, Might &…
So Nintendo has, more or less, settled on some semblance of an official timeline for the Legend of Zelda series. You may have thoughts/concerns about this. You also probably don’t have as many as reader Zach does, though. A little while ago Zach, who writes at website View From Heaven, sat down to play every…
If you need help sleeping tonight, why not curl up and listen to a man with a very proper accent read you a novel based on a video game about men with giant necks shooting monsters in the face. If Gears of Wars’ Jacinto’s Remnant doesn’t do it for you, you could try Halo: Cryptum,…
Some patent and resume digging by French site HardGamers has uncovered the very real possibility that Electronic Arts is bringing back from the dead one of its most treasured old properties: Populous Managing to access what looks to be an internal wiki for EA’s marketing team (specifically projects involving its EA Partners program), they’ve uncovered…
Team Fortress 2 is a pretty great game, but the best thing about it are Valve’s marketing shorts, which introduce each character with the kind of animated quality you’d expect from a Pixar flick. So far we’ve met, well, everybody. Everybody except the mysterious Pyro. But we’ll meet him/her soon enough, with Valve promising today…
OK. So there’s been a long-running mystery surrounding Final Fantasy VII and a pair of women’s underwear. For fifteen years now people have wondered what the hell these knickers – actually an unused item – were for, but some recent fan translations of Japanese-language interviews have finally solved a mystery that’s no doubt been keeping…
So the latest piece of official BioWare fiction is a little rough around the edges. Let’s say you want to write your own Mass Effect story. Need some help? BioWare themselves are here to help. David Gaider, who’s been a writer at BioWare for over ten years now (and who’s worked on games like Knights…
Me and You, by Nero, is kinda famous right now as it’s been used as the jingle for the Beats by Dr. Dre line of gear at Best Buy. Which is lovely for Best Buy and everyone else involved. Me, I’m just here for the track’s music video, which is one giant tip of the…
The Mass Effect 3 multiplayer demo requires you to have a Gold subscription because, well, it’s a multiplayer game and that’s how Xbox Live rolls. Not to worry. Microsoft is giving away ” a limited time Gold access” pass to everyone who downloads the demo, meaning we can all get in on the action. No…
It’s the hottest trend of 2012: Japanese publishers losing money hand over fist. Latest to join in is Capcom, whose sales are down 29% and whose operating income is down a whopping 47.2%. [Capcom]
Lucasarts, being preoccupied with making average Star Wars games based on terrible Star Wars movies and cartoons, obviously couldn’t care less about treasured old properties like Day of the Tentacle. So it’s lucky reader SewerShark does. Using the magic of a 3D printer, he’s built himself this amazing little DotT piece based on Purple Tentacle.…
I shook my serious Skyrim addiction after a couple of weeks, but if you’ve only just noticed it’s now February 2012, and that you’ve been playing the game non-stop for months now, you might need some help. You might need…an intervention.
Sony has posted an interesting glimpse behind the scenes of Naughty Dog’s upcoming The Last of Us, showing the human actors who bring the game’s characters to life. Naughty Dog have always been good at documenting this stuff, as any Uncharted fan who’s checked out the bonus features on a game disc could tell you.…
Sega is an old brand. There’s heritage in that, but also baggage. So French design firm SYN decided to take a swing at sprucing the company’s image up a little! While this is a purely fan-driven project – think of it was arty fan fiction – it’s still interesting to see the ways a company…
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