Link to us If you find this blog useful, please provide a backlink to us. Paste the code below into your site HTML. Your link is much appreciated. Saturday, June 27, 2009 "It’s a completely different storyline, there is completely different character development. It’s a game about espionage, set in the 1970s. GTA is obviously more about an urban experience, a typically rags to riches experience. Very, ver... Read Full Story

Link to us If you find this blog useful, please provide a backlink to us. Paste the code below into your site HTML. Your link is much appreciated. Saturday, June 27, 2009 Strange how Sony never releases a full change log. ps3attitude.com found out one new thing.The first change comes via the new Text Chat feature that launched with the last upgrade. Instead of a meagre 32 character limit for each line of text, you ca... Read Full Story

Link to us If you find this blog useful, please provide a backlink to us. Paste the code below into your site HTML. Your link is much appreciated. Friday, June 19, 2009 CNBC reiterates a common development budget myth during an interview with Ubisoft:Games for the Wii typically cost much less to create, due to the system’s less than cutting-edge componentsWrong. Games for the Wii generally require smaller budge... Read Full Story

Link to us If you find this blog useful, please provide a backlink to us. Paste the code below into your site HTML. Your link is much appreciated. Friday, June 19, 2009 Bobby Kotick has warned that Sony risks losing support of the mega publisher unless it decides to issue a price cut for the PlayStation 3.“They have to cut the price, because if they don’t, the attach rates [the number of games each consol... Read Full Story

Link to us If you find this blog useful, please provide a backlink to us. Paste the code below into your site HTML. Your link is much appreciated. Friday, June 19, 2009 This is the same demo that was shown at E3, but this is the whole demo. They cut it short at E3. So you can just skip to the 6:00 minute mark. Be forewarned it’s extremely gory, so it’s not for the weak at heart. A guys heads gets ripped o... Read Full Story

The newest firmware update for the PS3 is now live for download for all you lucky US residents. With a bit of luck it wil come across the pond fairly soon. Go turn on your favourite black gaming monolith and get the download going…quick, whilst it’s hot!As reported yesterday by ps3vault, 2.50 features a great set of performance tweaks, including Flash 9 support and controller auto-switch off amongst others. I’m still holding out for the option to install another browser on ... Read Full Story

There’s something strange going on. Not exactly wrong, but just… different. I feel different when I’m gaming: more competitive and yet somehow more vulnerable. I need a sense of completion and reward, a thank you and “job well done”. I need trophies. *stands up* My name is Ed and I am a trophyholic.Trophies are not a new concept. We all know another console which has had it’s own version of them for ages. Not owning that particular device I never really ga... Read Full Story

CCP breaks barriers in free expansion slated for release this winterCCP, one of the world’s leading independent game developers, today announced the launch of the ninth free expansion for EVE Online, its popular science fiction massively multi-player online game (MMOG). EVE Online: Quantum Rise offers limitless opportunity to the talented starship pilots of New Eden as the roots of conflict spread deep for their lifeblood.Players have great things to look forward to in EVE Online: Quan... Read Full Story

As promised, Lord of the Rings Online’s Book 13 update included fishing!Woot, fishing!For no good reason, I have done fishing in every MMO I have played that made some sort of angling mechanic available. I have had characters with fishing skills at the cap in EverQuest, EverQuest 2, and World of Warcraft.Therefore I knew when Turbine announced fishing for LOTRO, I would be there.Friday night I found the NPC that grants the fishing skill in Bree. He sends you off to another NPC in Stadd... Read Full Story

Recently we pointed to IGN’s perfect 10 review of GTA4. I couldn’t be more excited about the game, however, some critics have a point: Isn’t the concept of exclusive reviews suspicious? Obviously, such an early exclusive review drives web traffic for the news site and creates influential early impressions among consumers.Do exclusive reviews represent a clear conflict of interest?A few points:Any pre-release review released with exclusive publishing rights, while other medi... Read Full Story