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Xbox 360 | Interstellar Marines Hands-On

· 360

We went hands on with that indie-developed first-person shooter and learned what it takes to build a first-person shooter on a shoestring budget.

Interstellar Marines has had an interesting development. A first-person shooter conceived by Zero Point Software in the early 2000s, it was prototyped using a well-known game engine and next shopped around to [...]

Contemporary Warfare 2 to sell 11.1 million in two months – Analyst

· News, PC

Janco Partners’ Mike Hickey expects Infinity Ward’s upcoming shooter to be the best-selling game of 2009.

In March, Activision revealed that signal of Duty 4: contemporary Warfare had sold 12 million copies after nearly 17 months on the market. whether one analyst is right, it might not take very towering for contemporary Warfare 2 to [...]

PlayStation 3 | Report: Nathan Drake to assemble big-screen debut

· PS3

Kayne and Lynch and Hitman 2 writer Kyle Ward set to pen script based on PS3-exclusive Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.

The video game film adaptation hasn’t precisely been the height of classic cinema, despite some mild box office success from films such as Resident Evil and Lara Croft Tomb Raider. However, that hasn’t stopped the Hollywood [...]

PC | Petroglyph carving out MMORTS

· News, PC

Star Wars: Empire at War developer teams with Trion World on yet to be detailed massively multiplayer online strategy title.

Aside from being formed by Westwood Studios veterans, Petroglyph is perhaps best known for its work on real-time strategy title Star Wars: Empire at War, released to rave reviews in 2006. As such, it was [...]

PC | signal of Juarez: Bound in Blood Updated Hands-On

· PC

We strap on our cowboy boots for a final look at Techland’s gritty Wild West shooter.

Fans of films like The Good, the poor and the Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars will know that the Wild West was a godforsaken place, full of burlesque houses, high-noon shoot-outs, and whisky–served in a dirty glass, of [...]

PlayStation 3 | Tecmo: Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 less violent

· PS3

The latest instalment in Team Ninja’s hack-and-slash romp to be toned down for PS3 release.

When Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2’s debut trailer appeared earlier that year at GDC it left more than a few public scratching their heads. A PlayStation 3 redux of the Xbox 360’s well-received Ninja Gaiden II, the video gave many the [...]

Doh! Blippy Accidentally Reveals Your Credit Card Numbers On Google

· News


You might not have heard of Blippy before that, but after today, you can be certain that it’s a name that you’ll remember, albeit probably for the wrong reasons. The site is supposed to be a “fun and easy way to see and discuss what everyone else is buying”. That’s just fine in concept, but [...]

Star Wars: The Old Republic for PC…A Hands-On approach!

· PC

Check out the massively multiplayer action in the star-shattering realm of Star Wars!

A expanded moment ago, in a galaxy far, far away, game developer BioWare, a studio founded by two medical doctors on the foundations of nerdy swords-and-sorcery role-playing, made the jump to deep space [...]

Fully implantable hearing aid

· News


Hearing aids have certainly come a lengthy way from being an embarassment initially for its wearers to something that is deemed normal and essential in that day and age for folks suffering from hearing loss. Well, brains of that generation has further shrunk the hearing aid to manufacture it fully implantable, with the FDA’s Ear, [...]

US Air Force Stocks Up on PS3s

· News, PS3


It seems like the US Air Force is a big customer of Sony’s. By now you already know that it purchased 336 PS3s a while back for their supercomputer research. Now news has broken that they’re planning to pick up another 2200 PS3 consoles, which should bring a huge smile to the executives by at [...]