Maybe it’s my lack of enthusiasm for the Call Of Duty franchise, or ‘real world’ first person shooters in general, but the above parody hit the nail on the head. On a related matter, if you haven’t yet tried the demo for Bulletstom, I can’t recommend it highly enough. The general mayhem in the demo suggests that unless Duke Nukem can bring his A game in the humour department, over the top FPS fun may have a new king.
Read MoreFrom the realm of cool news, Adobe recently demoed a radical technology involving a Plenoptic Lens and a new software that will find it’s way into Photoshop eventually. Basically, this new lens (with software help) allows still pictures to be focused and re-focussed AFTER the picture is taken. That’s right! AFTER the picture is taken, you can manipulate the depth of field to pretty much anywhere within the picture. How does it do this? The Plenoptic Lens is basically made up of a whole bunch of tiny little lenses. The…
Read MoreThe public demo for Ruffian Games’ Crackdown 2 launched today, with a few interesting twists. Besides providing both single player and 4 player co-op modes, if you’re also a Facebook user, they’ve got a tie in game called Chuck’s Ducks 2, a carnival style game that allows players to earn and activate special sticky bombs, for use in the retail game. You can check out our hands on impression with the game last month, as well as our interview Ruffian Games creative director Billy Thomson. In brief, Crackdown 2 is…
Read MoreGreen Day fans who downloaded the 2 song demo of Green Day: Rock Band got the first nugget of a hint that keyboards keytars would be coming to Rock Band 3. At the end of the demo, the RB3 image splashed onscreen, that included the four classic instruments as well as an icon for keyboard. The microphone icon was also changed to show three mics, which suggests that Harmonix is going to be bringing, er, harmonics, to the third installment of the rhythm game, though that’s less of surprise since…
Read MoreDave was at the Canadian International Auto Show and got a demo of Ford Sync which provides in-car entertainment and communications via wired or bluetooth connected devices.
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThere’s no secret that some of us here are huge fans of the zombie-blasting multi-player game Left 4 Dead, proving an exception to the Max Brooks rule. You can see why this is of some import to those of us who just don’t want to wait until November 17th to get our melee-style zombie smashing on. There’s been a couple of noteworthy items, the first being… Those who have pre-purchased Left 4 Dead 2 via Steam may now pre-load the game demo, which is due to launch for early access…
Read MorePainkiller was one of those love it or hate it FPS titles. If you were in the mood for good bloody fun, of the old school Quake variety with slicker graphics, it was right up your alley. If you wanted a cohesive storyline and emotion, go look elsewhere. I’d recommend the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes”, it’s choke full of that stuff. Painkiller is all about the fragging. In any case, the demo to the sequel is now out for download, (single player only) and I’d highly recommend you give it…
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