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Trailer For Paradise

No, it’s not an ad produced by a heavenly tourist board, its a trailer for the new Burnout, freshly named Burnout: Paradise, and it looks divine. Just a teaser at the moment we’ll have to wait to get more gameplay videos. (From IGN.com.)

Resident Wii-vil 4 Boxart

Basically the same boxart as the PS2 version but in monochrome. Looks pretty cool and has an eerier aesthetic to it. (From GameNation.)

Date For Assassin’s Creed, Preorders Open.

You can preorder it on Amazon, and its release date is September 25th.
Ubisoft’s beautiful, and rumoured to be quite clever with it, sneak-em-up was developed by the same team as Prince of Persia and so it promises to combine the best of both, gadgets and sneakiness from Splinter Cell and stunning acrobatics and involving […]

Nice Chair

There’s nothing worse than not being comfortable whilst sitting in front of World of Warcraft for days at a time. This chair would look to be the solution, all that’s needed is the IV feeding rack and catheter system (sold separately). Seriously though, with the ability to mount up to 6 monitors, if your a […]

Sony Gets People’s Goat, And Sacrifices It.

Sony made a bit of a gaffe at the launch party for God of War II over the weekend. A dead goat, freshly slaughtered, was used to promote the game and guests invited to feast on its offal. The entire event was an orgy of debauched behaviour by all accounts. Knife throwing, half naked body-painted […]

This Week’s Releases (UK)

Obviously the big release this week is Spider Man 3 on all formats to coincide with the movie release. You all know my views regarding movie licenses though I have been impressed with Spider-Man games in the past.
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Theatre of War (30th April): A WWII RTS in the same vein as Company of Heroes, but […]

Shattered Suns To Break New RTS Ground?

According to IGN.com, the newly announced space based RTS, Shattered Sun, is set to revolutionize the RTS genre. Reading through the article (and that’s all it is, no screens as yet) it doesn’t sound all that revolutionary to me. I’m here to deconstruct the hype and put things in a little perspective

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