You know what it’s like when you get caught up in a great season on Football Manager. The hours slips by, the dishes go unwashed and strange odours start floating up from the plate of uneaten stuff you completely forget about just as you sneaked past Huddersfield in an FA Cup replay. Yes, Football Manager can take over your life but can it give you a new career? Well,...
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What are your favourite memories of playing computer games? If they are anything like ours then they will involves some classic old titles which you can’t get hold of very easily these days. If you are lucky then you can even recall lazy weekends of sticking cartridges into huge machines and controlling brightly coloured hedgehogs and rather basic looking spaceships. Sadly...
The PC has always been one of the most dominant gaming platforms, and it benefits far more users than those who use the Mac OS X. Apple’s desktop operating system has not embraced gaming jsut yet, with only a limited number of games, such as Starcraft, Diablo and Warcraft, released for the system. Now, it seems that it will change with Epic Games announcing that...
Importing video games from other countries won’t be an issue anymore, as Sony’s upcoming handheld gaming platform PlayStation Vita is region free. It has been hinted at the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) this year by Sony executive Michael Denny that the PlayStation Vita will be region free, though he said that it was as far as he knew. Now, Sony Computer...
Traditional single-player only games will cease to exist by the end of 2014, says a veteran video game consultant. Mark Cerny, who has worked with Sony on the Ratchet & Clank, Spyro, Jak and Daxter, and Crash Bandicoot games, predicted that in three years, single player games won’t last “in a world with Facebook.” “I believe the traditional...
Google’s social networking service, Google+, has taken a big step forward by announcing that it is adding a gaming feature similar to a traditional apps store. Google+, which is about two months old, said that it is beginning to feature games on its service. The new feature, which can be accessed via a button at the top of the user’s stream, will include popular...
Firemint, the developers behind the Real Racing series have revealed that their new iPhone game, Real racing 2, cost over $2 million to create and will allow up to 16 players to play along with each other online over Wi-Fi. This is the first game on iOS to support so many players, which naturally has mobile gamers salivating in excitement. Real Racing 2 will is also enabled...
As 2010 gets into motion the video game release schedules are starting to look a little more packed and February is going to see some big name updates as well as some brand new franchises getting their first chance at success. Dante’s Inferno Perhaps the first ever game to be based on a classic poem, Dante’s Inferno is going to be a bloody trip into the bowels...