Tony Hawk Is Laying Down The Law

PLAY, READ on December 7 Surprisingly enough, Tony Hawk: RIDE, the latest in the obsolete skateboarding series, hasn’t been going down to well with most of the gaming press. Right now, the game across all platforms comes out at an average of 52 on Metacritic, which as we pros on the Internet all know, is the ratings equivalent of cock size. Now Mr.Hawk isn’t too... 

Rock Out For The Chilluns At San Francisco

PLAY, READ on December 3 Another year brings another Child’s Play. Child’s play is a charity that was set up by Penny Arcade in 2003 to help sick children in hospitals all over the US. As part of helping, many events take place to benefit Child’s Play. While nothing will probably ever top last year’s Singsterling, people will continue to try, with the... 

Top 5 Gaming Characters Who Could Improve By Having Beards

PLAY, READ on December 2 So Medal of Honor (spell it right, stupid Americans) is getting a modern day reboot. Big whoop. If I wanted to play a modern day war game I’d play well…Modern Warfare 2. So I wasn’t expecting much initially when I clicked on the item for Medal of Honor, but then I saw the concept art. Wait a minute…IS THAT A FUCKING BEARD?... 

How Xtival is like Mr.Bumble In Oliver Twist

READ on November 28 (This article going up recently is purely coincidence) – Gibbo :) Every year in Europe, Microsoft host their annual Xtival “festival”. For one weekend, Xbox Live Gold is free to anyone. Not only that but there are game competitions for some of the biggest titles around right now as well deals on films to watch and music videos from... 

New Star Wars Game Being Announced At Spike’s VGA, Probably Won’t Be Interesting

PLAY on November 25 Yep, it’s that time again, when we get pre-emptively excited for a new Star Wars game, only for the actual product to be flawed. This time around the setting is the Spike VGA, the serious video game awards show , where as part of the deal, they get a load of exclusives to show that us filthy peasants have to wait until the event to see. Today,... 

A Brit Late – Halo 3: ODST

PLAY, READ on November 16 I was excited when Halo 3 ODST was initially announced. A new campaign with new characters and weapons where you’re not Master Chief again? Awesome! It was later revealed that ODST wouldn’t be available as DLC, only on disc. Okay, kind of a dick move but I can work with it. Then finally Microsoft revealed that the game would retail at... 

Modern Warfare 2 brought up in House of Commons, video games defended

PLAY on November 9 Update: There is now a video of the debate over at BBC News Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll no doubt know that tomorrow, Activision’s money maker Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is released. Being the first game in the Call of Duty series to recieve the 18 rating in the United Kingdom, it contains a very controversial section... 

Demo Daze: Left 4 Dead 2

PLAY, READ on November 2 It’s less than 3 weeks until Left 4 Dead 2 is released and a public demo is due out tomorrow. However I was lucky enough to get a demo code for the Xbox 360 version last week and since then I’ve been playing through the demo’s two levels of “The Parish” throughout the weekend. The demo is very similar to the original Left... 

New Magic: The Gathering Game Coming, YuGiOh Players Cry.

PLAY on November 2 Wizards of the Coast and Sony Online Entertainment announced today that the series that launched a million nerds, Magic: The Gathering, is receiving yet another game.  The new game is titled Magic The Gathering – Tactics, and as the title already suggests will not play exactly like the card game.  Being a guy who’s suffered through many,... 

Demo Daze – Dragon Ball: Raging Blast

PLAY, READ on October 26 I was a big fan of Dragonball Z when I was a kid. Like any childhood cartoon, it seems a little silly looking back but as long as I had my daily dose of Toonami and people with gravity defying haircuts throwing each other through canyons then I was happy. So whenever I get the chance to play a new game based on the Dragonball franchise, I’ll... 

Netflix Coming to PS3: Some Hoop Jumping Required

WATCH on October 26 Netflix and SCEA have reached an agreement to get the popular movie rental company’s “Watch Instantly” service onto the Playstation 3.  Unlike the Xbox 360 version, which requires a Gold account to access the service, the Playstation 3 version will be completely free to the user.  There will be, however, a few steps in order to watch... 

Capcom Unity Launches New Community Events

PLAY on October 9 Starting this week Capcom is launching two new ways for you to get more involved in the community over at their official site. Video Game Club uses a book club like format to stir conversation between the staffers and the community on a particular title. At the beginning of a session a game is chosen from recent and retro Capcom titles, users are given... 

New WRC game announced. I possibly came.

PLAY on October 5 From a small article by Eurogamer, (literally one paragraph)  comes the announcement of a new WRC game for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. If you don’t know, WRC stands for the FIA World Rally Championship, which as you might have guessed, is a yearly rally championship that takes place around the world. It’s tough and brutal, with plenty of crashes,... 

Machinarium Demo Released

PLAY on October 1 The one PC game that I’ve been fapping about for the last couple of months, Machinarium, has finally got a demo release. I’m downloading it as I type. You can get your own from FilePlanet if you’re a fan of the PC adventure games of the past, or present like Monkey Island for that matter. It seems you get the first 3 stages to play... 

You Should Be Playing…

PLAY on October 1 Brütal Legend and Need for Speed: Shift. Both games have their demos out today. While I’m more interested in seeing what NfS:S can do, I know that many of the MWN guys have chubs for Brütal Legend and have that on their ‘must have’ list for 2009.  

Bayonetta Demo Next Week

PLAY on October 1 Exactly one week from today, you’ll be able to get your hands on Sega’s newest ass-kicking game Bayonetta. I had a chance to play this at PAX this year and I have to say, it’s looking pretty damn cool and plays really well. The demo will be on both the PS3 and the 360, but I suggest you get the Xbox 360 one if you have the choice,... 

ODST Live-Action Trailer

PLAY on September 30 Man if seeing the first live-action short that came out for Halo 3 wasn’t enough to satisfy, Bungie graciously provided the above video for Halo ODST. I love it when companies can do live-action and make it seem…ya know, good! Seriously, clips like this do nothing except tease me into thinking that we’ll never get to see a Halo movie... 

Place Your Bets: Gaikai or OnLive?

PLAY on September 30 Ive been championing Dave Perry’s Gaikai for quite a while now thanks to the fact that it’ll all be done without the need for special controllers or boxes on the user side, unlike OnLive which will require something of the sort. This week, OnLive’s El Jefe Steve Perlman disclosed to the world that they’ve recently finished taking... 

TGS 2009: Final Fantasy XIII Trailer

PLAY on September 30 Well it looks like Square Enix is trying their hardest to make sure that the fans of Final Fantasy all the world over are happy, at least the ones that can read English that is. I saw the Japanese only one earlier this week and could understand a little about what was happening (3 years of Japanese in college FTW), but my one to two word comprehension... 

Metal Gear Remake…Maybe?

PLAY on September 29 Kojima had an interview with Kotaku recently about many things, but the one thing that many of us gaming whores are picking up on is the statement he had about doing a remake of the original Metal Gear, which appeared on the MSX2 waaay back in 1987 when I was a mere lad of seven.