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Fallout New Vegas: Fall 2010

February 4, 2010February 4, 2010 Doug Groves Bethesda, Fallout New Vegas, PC gaming, PS3, Xbox 3600 comment

Bethesda Softworks, makers of Fallout 3 have released the above teaser trailer for the all new “Fallout: New Vegas”, which is being developed by Obsidian Entertainment. This is noteable because Obsidian is made up of many former developers from Black Isle Studios, the creators of the original Fallout. It certainly hits many of the same stylistic notes as Fallout 3, with the “golden oldies” soundtrack and retro-future look, and with Obsidian on board will hopefully stay truer to its ‘traditional’ RPG roots than Fallout 3 did. Needless to say, this has…

Aliens vs. Predator demo coming Feb. 4th

February 3, 2010February 3, 2010 Doug Groves Aliens, Aliens vs. Predator, demo, multiplayer, PC gaming, Predator, PS3, Xbox 3606 Comments

The Sega Europe blog has officially announced that a multiplayer demo will be released on Thursday Geb 4th for the upcoming Aliens Vs. Predator game, via Xbox Live, PSN or Steam, depending on your preference. This AvP is set in the future (roughly around the time of Aliens), and will allow the player to take on the role of Alien, Predator or Colonial Marine, and duke it out in a refinery designed to feature areas that will be more suited for each species. From Sega… There are numerous vantage points…

Episode 22: IPTV

January 25, 2010January 25, 2010 Doug Groves ASRock, Asus, Bayonetta, Book Of Eli, Boxee0 comment

Want to do away with your cable bill? Ryan does, so we take a look at different options, from low cost media players like the Asus O!Play Air, all the way up to HTPC setups using nettops like the ASRock ION 330 or Acer Aspire Revo. We’ve also got reviews of Book of Eli and Bayonetta on tap.

Transformers: War for Cybertron is the Transformers video game you might actually WANT to play

January 21, 2010January 21, 2010 Danny X PC games, PS3, Transformers, Xbox 3603 Comments

Not since Hot Rod opened up the Matrix of leadership to the haunting tune of “You Got the Touch” have I been so moved by anything Transformers related. It’s not because I’m some kind of callow emotionless jerk-bot. It’s because anything transformers-related since 1986 has, um, sucked. But the Transformers: War for Cybertron game trailer looks like it wants to buck that trend. Featuring the voice of Peter Cullen and some cameo appearances by what appears to be Omega Supreme, the trailer appears to ramp up the battle scenes in…

Bayonetta may just make your head explode

January 18, 2010January 18, 2010 Doug Groves Bayonetta, review, Xbox 3602 Comments

Bayonetta is a new action game in the linear kill everything that’s thrown at you style of the Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden variety. There’s a lot of similarities especially with the former, given that both were directed by Hideki Kamiya, and from a purely game mechanics perspective, Bayonetta is certainly an evolution. Bayonetta is also a 10 foot tall witch with a sexy English accent, naughty librarian glasses and sassy high heel-machine gun shoes. Her hair would put Crystal Gayle to shame. In fact, her skin tight body…

2009 in review – rgb style

January 8, 2010January 15, 2010 Doug Groves Assassin's Creed II, Avatar, District 9, Drag Me To Hell, Hurt Locker, Left 4 Dead 2, Plants vs. Zombies, star trek0 comment

With 2009 a over week in the rear view mirror, we decided to take a look back at our favourite movies and games from the year, and present our top list. Instead of picking THE best movie and game of the year, we all made individual lists, then I tallied them up. Anything with more than one vote makes it on the list.

Dark Void demo launches this week

January 5, 2010January 5, 2010 Doug Groves Capcom, Dark Void, PC games, PS3, Xbox 3602 Comments

Whether you’ve heard of Dark Void before or not, if you have a PS3 or Xbox 360, this is your lucky week. Those who know already have the date bookmarked. If you’re not familiar with the title, Dark Void basically a 3rd person action adventure game, mixing that old-tymey art style of Bioshock with interdimensional sci-fi monsters. Like most 3rd person shoots, it makes use of a Gears of War cover mechanism, adding a vertical cover mechanic into the mix. Why vertical cover? Oh, probably because your character has a…

OnLive demoed at Columbia University, looks promising

December 29, 2009 drsquid cloud computing, Compression, console, Gaming, OnLive, PC, video7 Comments

Gamertag Radio recently posted a 48 minute demonstration of OnLive, the cloud gaming platform that many claim is just smoke and mirrors, recorded at a lecture at Columbia University. While final judgement should withheld until the service actually launches – and someone outside the company has tested it in the ‘real’ world, this video goes a long way to proving to me that there is real technology here that will work, and could potentially revolutionize gaming as we know it. However I am not ready to give up local gaming…

Ubisoft Toronto Employee #1 reveals Toronto location

December 11, 2009December 11, 2009 Doug Groves employee #1, studio, Toronto, Ubi, Ubisoft0 comment

Were you wondering where the Ubisoft Toronto studio is going to be? It’s no longer a mystery, despite the video above. On his Facebook page, Employee #1 revealed the location to be 224 Wallace Ave. (map) just north of Bloor at Lansdowne. There’s more images of the building on his page, and yep, Ubisoft is also hiring, by either emailing them here… work.in.TO@ubisoft.com or visiting their Careers Portal.

Free Xbox LIVE Weekends – who needs eHarmony?

November 20, 2009November 20, 2009 Doug Groves Microsoft, Xbox 360, Xbox Live1 Comment

The Xbox LIVE Dashboard update has been launched, adding Facebook, Twitter, HD instant streaming via the Zune Marketplace and more. To give more people a taste of it, the Xbox LIVE team is taking a page out of the eHarmomy playbook, and is running free-weekend promos, which start today in many regions, while Europe starts on November 25th. As for the update itself, the main interface remains the same, and the additions are for the most part well done. The real stand outs have to be the Facebook app which…

Assassin’s Creed II: First Impressions

November 19, 2009February 16, 2010 Johnathan Leger Assassin's Creed II, PC games, PS3, review, Ubisoft, Xbox 3608 Comments

One of the most anticipated gaming titles of the year was finally released this week… and Assassin’s Creed 2 has a LOT of hype to live up to for some… and a LOT to apologize for to others. In 2007, the first game was greeted with polarized impressions, best summed up by Zero Punctuations review. Despite its glaring flaws, I was a HUGE fan of the Creed and after grinding through the first level of the sequel, my impressions thus far are nothing short of smitten. I wont get into…

Left 4 Dead 2 is out, and is all that and more

November 18, 2009 drsquid Left 4 Dead, PC, Steam, Valve, Xbox 3604 Comments

Valve unlocked Left for Dead 2 at midnight, on November 17th, for those who pre-ordered, and pre-loaded the game. I somehow forgot this fact, despite having done the former and latter, so the first thing I did when I got home tonight was play the game. Though I have only had time to play a for few hours, it’s defintely going to be my new gaming addiction. As said, in our review of the demo, L4D 2 takes all that you loved from the first game (you did buy the…