From Friday 4th to Sunday 6th October Australian gamers descended on Sydney’s Olympic park for their annual video gaming extravaganza, the EB Expo 2013. The show ran for three-days giving fans ample opportunity to get their hands on upcoming games from the likes of EA, Ubisoft and Activision, as well as the opportunity to try out the new Xbox One and PlayStation 4 hardware ahead of their launches next month.
I spent two days at the show, the Friday and Saturday sessions. It was pretty full-on.
This is a tiny little post as I’m too busy at the moment to write anything meaningful on this here site. Between other things I ‘m currently working on a piece about the weekend’s EB Expo that I’ll be putting up on here later this week.
Right now I’m concentrating on getting some shit together for Shanethegamer.com and Techday.com. I’ve got about a hours worth of interviews to transcribe, most of which were with North Americans- who can fit about five hundred words in a minute. Continue reading Week in review: let the games begin
To say that I’m excited about the imminent arrival of Grand Theft Auto V would be an understatement. I’ve been following the trailers and images for months, soaking up anything and everything that I could find about the game.
Last week, when I should have been reviewing The Bureau: XCOM Declassified and Total War: Rome 2, I instead decided to write something about Rockstar Games. In the days that followed I played every Rockstar release from the first Grand Theft Auto right up to Max Payne 3. I had one goal in mind: to get dome insight into what we are going to get next week, with GTA V, based on what Rockstar have done in the past. Continue reading Week in review: The Rockstar legacy
It’s been a while since I’ve done a Week in review, mainly because it have been a while since I’ve reviewed anything. I was, however, pretty sure that some of my missives had slipped out onto the intertubes without me making reference to them in this here column.
Let me just take a look.
It seems the last time I mentioned my reviews was back in June when I was more preoccupied with E3 than anything else. The last batch featured Metro: Last Light, Injustice: Gods Among Us (a game with the shittest non-inclusive DLC season pass ever) and the surprisingly good Call of Juarez: Gunslinger. Continue reading Week in review: Fuse, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, and Total War: Rome 2
As Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag fast approaches, Ubisoft have released a pretty cool video entitled “The Actors of Black Flag”. The video gives us a look at some of the characters as well as some insight into the splendid production values Ubisoft have put into the game. Continue reading Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag “The Actors of Black Flag” video.
Now I fucking love zombies. They scare the shit out of me. They are the only horror genre that really gets under my skin.
But I’m a bit picky when it comes to zombies in games. Whilst the likes of Left 4 Dead thrill me to bits, your Call of Duty: Zombies, the recent Resident Evils and even the Dead Risings miss the mark as far as I’m concerned.
A couple of other zombie games that I really enjoy (and I seem to be all alone in this) are Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide. Full of tech issues, I know, but all completely fixable (on the PC, anyway); leaving players with a couple of amazing open-world romps though zombie infested tropical paradises. Continue reading Free-running zombie-fest Dying Light gameplay trailer released!
I’ve spent the last week clearing up a few gaming loose ends with the likes of Far Cry 3, SSX and Dishonored.
But now is the time to stop looking back, it’s time to look forward and brace ourselves for the gaming onslaught ahead.
With the release of two new consoles heralding the next generation of gaming platforms as well as developers wringing the last ounces of power from the current generation, it going to be an awesome time to be a gamer. Continue reading Week in review micro edition: Assassin’s Creed 3: Black Flag “Pirate’s Life on the High Seas” trailer.
Microsoft’s controversial move towards an internet controlled, digital-based DRM afflicted games marketplace has cause some debate here at Vicbstard.com.
For over a week Grant and myself have been debating the merits and pitfalls of Microsoft’s Xbox One strategy. Whilst I must profess to being rather the fan of Microsoft’s consoles, my Xbox One pre-order being already in the bag, I don’t quite share Grant’s optimism for an always on digital future.
Regardless of my misgivings, Grant, in his article, below, puts forward a rather convincing case for Microsoft’s Xbox One policies. Continue reading Why we should thank Microsoft for Xbox One