Konami has sent out an email to press contacts with a simple “presented without comment” subject line, with the contents of the email relating to the long-awaited, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. The email contains a link to the official website for the game, and that is all, nothing else. However, the website, which you can have a look at for yourselves...
March is the time of year where a lot of publishers have to delay their games to in order to get them out just before the financial year ends. As such there are usually quite a few good titles during this period, and this year is no exception, there are a couple of really big games out this month that people have been looking forward to for a while. In any case, here’s...
One of the newer features of a PlayStation Network or Sony Entertainment Network account is that you can use various services to add funds to your wallet. One of the most useful of these is the ability to ‘top-up’ your PSN wallet with your phone credit, which is what this guide shows you how to do. This is especially useful when you are buying a cheap phone (for...
The Order: 1886 is a game which had many people excited, and that is always a dangerous thing. Everybody knows the feeling of a game or film that didn’t live up to their expectations, and despite my eagerness, I was growing cautious about The Order as discussions leading up to release day turned somewhat negative. Thankfully, my concerns were misguided. Though it does...
Havoc, the first DLC pack for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014’s top-selling console video game in the world, according to the NPD Group and Gfk based on physical game unit sell-through), is coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PC on 26th February. Packed to the brim with content, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Havoc includes four new, epic multiplayer maps,...
Suikoden is probably one of those games that you’ve heard a lot of praise about, but never actually played, and that’s understandable because there were very few copies of the game actually printed. So much so that the original copies of the game tend to sell for quite a premium on auction sites like eBay. Konami has realised that there is a thirst to play this...
Slightly Mad Studios and Bandai Namco has confirmed that Project CARS will be available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on April 2nd 2015. The slight shift of the release date is due to final adjustments in the game, that are required to provide to the fans with the best gaming experience they could have. “Moving a release date was not an easy decision to make, as we...
Turtle Rock Studios made quite an entrance into the gaming industry with the release of Left 4 Dead, a hugely successful co-op game developed with help from Valve of Half Life and Portal fame. Now seven years after the launch of Left 4 Dead, Turtle Rock has separated from Valve and released a new take on the four player co-op that saw them so much success in the past, replacing...
Evolve has already released in most territories, and owners of early copies will be aware that the game has a massive 3.06 gigabyte sized day one patch that must be downloaded. This is one of the biggest day one patches so far, but still nowhere near the Halo: The Master Chief Collection patch for Xbox One which weighed in at 20GB. The patch supposedly improves load times...
Grim Fandango, originally released by LucasArts in 1998, is by far one of the most fondly remembers classical point and click adventure games alongside the Monkey Island series and Maniac Mansion. It’s a game that remains very nostalgic to me, as somebody who grew up playing point and click games, an experience I associate with my mother and probably my earliest exposure...
With Sony’s use of the low profile 2.5″ hard disks in the PlayStation 4, came the stark realisation that with an increasingly digital future, how do you store all of those games? This is a big worry for many gamers because even physical copies of games now install on to the hard drive, so what can we do about it? A new innovation in the industry means that you...
With the launch of Final Fantasy Type-0 HD less than a month away, Square Enix released a new trailer detailing the overall storyline and the struggles that Class Zero will face. The trailer also reveals new footage from Final Fantasy XV -Episode Duscae- including new companions and enemies that Noctis and his party will encounter. The Japanese trailer can be viewed on below:A...
One of the lesser known features of Sony’s PlayStation 4 is that it allows you to connect your smartphone and other smart devices to the console in order to use some of the console’s features. Initially this pairing allowed several things such as using the device as a second screen or to start downloading items from the PSN. However, with the new Xperia devices...
Sony Online Entertainment has announced in a forum post on their official message boards that the company has been purchased by Columbus Nova, and will be changing it’s name to Daybreak Game Company. The post reads: Today, we are pleased to announce that we have been acquired by Columbus Nova, an investment management firm well known for its success with its existing...
Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment International announced that PlayStation Network (PSNSM) will be the premium entertainment service brand which encompasses games, TV, video and music services. “Video Unlimited” and “Music Unlimited,” Sony’s digital video and music services currently offered on Sony Entertainment Network...
