The wait is nearly over. Next week, on September 9th, Activision finally unleashes Bungie’s Destiny. All across Australia and New Zealand video game stores will be opening at midnight to allow fans to get into the game the moment it’s made available. They will be among the first Destiny players in the world.
It may be the most anticipated video game title in recent years but I’ll freely admit, apart from digesting the launch announcement, I’d not really been following the development of Destiny. After all, it was from the same guys that brought us Halo; so it was hardly likely to be rubbish. I thought I’d just wait and see. Continue reading Time to face your Destiny→
Capcom’s Street Fighter series has been giving players calloused hands for almost three decades now. The latest game in the series, Ultra Street Fighter IV has now made the jump from the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions, which were released earlier in the year, to the PC.
Apart from the odd dabble over the years, the last time that I seriously played a Street Fighter game was SFII on the Commodore Amiga way back in the early 90s.
I’ve always found the Killzone games good fun. If I’m honest, I’d even go as far as to say that I’d sooner play Killzone over Halo. And that goes for the multiplayer as well.
Even now, Killzone Shadow Fall is still the PlayStation 4 game that I use to highlight the capabilities of the new-gen consoles. The game has amazing lighting giving us possibly the closest thing so far to photo-real gameplay. Continue reading Killzone Shadowfall goes co-op with Intercept DLC→
It seems that scary games are the fashion of late. As well as the terrifying Alien: Isolation – which I’ve just previewed here, I also had a go on Bethesda Softworks’ The Evil Within at this year’s E3.
In pitch black demo booth I was confronted by grotesque creatures, hallucinations and lakes of blood. It was a wholly unnerving experience, with new-gen graphics adding a sense of realism that survival horror games have never been quite able to capture in the past. Continue reading The Evil Within drafts Hollywood talent→
I’ve been very concerned about Sega’s upcoming Alien: Isolation. VERY concerned. And I imagine that I’ve not been alone.
We’ve been burnt with games based on the Alien franchise before. Last year’s Aliens: Colonial Marines was not a good game. Both publisher Sega, and development studio Gearbox got a good slap from the gaming community for releasing a game that was not quite as advertised. Even Rebellion’s Aliens vs. Predator before it, back in 2010, was a bit of a mess.
It was a brave move for Sega to give the franchise another go so soon. But it was an even braver move for The Creative Assembly, step up to the plate. Famous for their superb historical Total War real-time strategy games, the Brit developer was not the first studio that came to mind when I thought of a developer likely to succeed in creating an Alien game. Continue reading Alien: Isolation PC preview→
To celebrate the acclaimed massively multiplayer online game’s one year anniversary Square Enix is inviting veteran Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn players back into the game for free until 1st September.
You see, this is the video game low season. It’s a time when PR firms send out blurb hyping games that we won’t be seeing for a few months. It’s a quiet time where gaming websites grasp every piece of news firmly like it’s a lost scripture or something.
