Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

From the imagination of Michel Gagne, comes this different looking game. It’s certainly pretty and nicely animated, it takes more than that for a game to be art however and we’ll find out nest year if the gameplay lives up to the visuals. Video after the jump.

Valve Plans Games For The Wii

Gabe Newell must have been doing the rounds at Leipzig, in an interview with Game Informer he is caught saying that the Wii is more valuable and interesting than just a CPU and graphics chip combination (which is baiscally what the 360 and PS3 are). I;m guessing that he’s talking about the challenge presented by [...]

Making DX10 Vista Only Was A Mistake, Says Newell

Gabe Newell, President of Valve, has criticised Microsoft for making DirectX 10 Vista only. Citing figures from a survey of Steam users, only 8% of whom are using vista it seems, he goes on to say that hardware and peripheral manufacturers are wary of creating new devices which support Vista and DX10 simply because there [...]

This Week’s Releases (UK)

As predicted, releases are beginning to pick up after the doldrums of summer. Releases of note this week are Guild Wars: Eye of the North on the PC, Tiger Woods 2008 on everything but PS3 (I wonder why), Madden ‘08 on the 360 and Wii, and Boogie on the Wii.
Full list of confirmed releases after [...]

Manhunt 2 Gets Cleared in US.

After being given an Adult Only rating by the US’s ESRB, a decision which prevented it from getting a console release, Manhunt 2 has been cleared for an October release and been given an M rating. The rating change is down to Rockstar modifying the game and resubmitting it, an appeal is still underway in [...]

More Gaming Mice?

This proves it, it is breeding season for gaming mice. After Microsoft and Razer’s announcements earlier this week, another manufacturer has entered the ring with not but two new mice. The SteelSeries Ikari, available in standard optical and laser flavours, is due out later this year (Q4). Pics after the jump.

Bioshock Under Attack

It took them long enough but the mainstream media have picked up on the ethical dilemma presented to players of 2K games’ latest FPS, Bioshock. The Boston Patriot-Ledger has stated that Bioshock is
“testing the limits of the ultraviolent gaming genre with a strategy that enables players to kill characters resembling young girls.”

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