It’s been a long time between drinks, but we finally have another competition to bring to you lovely folks. In conjunction with EB Games Australia, we’re giving you the chance to win an exclusive Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Demo Pass for Xbox 360.

If you’re keen to play both the single player and multiplayer features of this highly anticipated release, then read on to find out how to enter.

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If you guys are anything like me, you’ve been eagerly anticipating Blue Castle’s sandbox zombie bashing title Dead Rising 2. Unfortunately for gamers looking to get their pitchfork shotgun on, today Capcom announced that Dead Rising 2 has been delayed.

Originally slated to arrive August 31 on the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, DR2 is now set to hit North American stores on September 28. European gamers looking to crack some zombie skulls will have to wait until October 1. Read more… »

You guys remember way back in March when I wrote about how Activision halted the fan-made sequel to King’s Quest? Apparently, over the weekend Activision had a change of heart.

The publisher released a statement saying, “given the overwhelming community support for the Silver Lining project, [Activision is] in discussions with Phoenix Online Studios about allowing them to continue to finish the game and then release it to their fans.” Read more… »

A lot of people are skeptical about the future of 3D gaming on consoles, but until recently, I was not one of them.  Actually, one of the highlights of E3 I was most looking forward to was finally getting my hands on some of the 3D games Sony announced for the PS3, like Killzone 3 and Wipeout HD.

Maybe I shouldn’t have had such high hopes though, because if there’s one thing life has taught me, it’s that few things ever live up to the hype.  Now that I’ve played multiple PS3 games in 3D, I’m here to explain why the console isn’t quite ready to jump into the third dimension just yet. Read more… »

Recent figures unearthed by Newzoo – specialists in tracking video game statistics – suggest that almost a third of gamers don’t pay for games. Apparently, 30% of us never pay to play, a figure which applies to all platforms, whether PC, mobile, handheld or, perhaps most surprisingly, console.

According to Newzoo, the freebie-loving gamers amongst us are getting their digital fix by taking advantage of cost-free methods, such as borrowing games from friends, enjoying ‘Lite’ versions of apps, demos and the multitude of free games on sites like Facebook. Read more… »

Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow is another attempt to legitimize Blue Dragonas a franchise worth taking seriously. I’m not sure why Mistwalker is so hell bent on the idea of making more games for this series. When has a children’s story even been good when the original idea was taken and expanded upon several times? Who honestly thought The Neverending Story III was anywhere near as good as the original (which was probably good because it was based on a Children’s fantasy novel to begin with)?

The game opens with two purple-skinned people with long pointy ears awakening from a deep sleep. They portend hints of something big about to happen, thanks to some mysterious scheme they’ve been planning. I don’t really remember much of this scene because it was a lot of abstract foreshadowing, but one thing stood out to me: the purple girl says some snide comment to the dude, to which he replies something along the lines of “That cavalier tone of yours hasn’t changed since ancient times.” Well, duh! She’s been asleep for who knows how long; what kind of significant personality changes could she have possibly undergone? Read more… »

After gamers turned on GTA IV, many doubted Rockstar’s ability to bounce back strong - especially with a title that was mostly under-marketed until just a few months before its release. And yet, behold! Red Dead Redemption is a bonafide Game of the Year contender, and easily the developer’s strongest open-world effort to date. It’s almost as if Michael Pachter said it was sent out to die or something.

Yesterday saw the release of the first DLC for RDR, a free co-op-centric mission pack, titled Outlaws to the End. After playing it with some fellow high plains drifters, I’m ready to share my thoughts on the missions, the new additions, and possible proof that the Crackdown 2 demo is taking over the interwebs.

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I know what you’re thinking: yet another shooter on the Xbox 360. But while shooters are certainly a dime a dozen, some manage to separate themselves from the competition and bring about a fresh experience. Sniper: Ghost Warrior sets out to do just that.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 was one of the more recent games to make me fall in love with sniping. It really is amazing what realistic bullet physics can do for a game. Sniper: Ghost Warrior takes sniping to a whole new level while stressing the importance of stealth. A combination that may not be for everyone, but sure as hell shows potential for an engaging experience.

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There used to be a genre type that had everyone’s hearts pounding, their veins coursing with adrenaline.  A genre that required absolute precision and lightening fast reactions.  Follow me on a brief jaunt in gaming history.

It’s the late 80′s / early 90′s and everyone who wants to blow something up is hammering coins into arcade cabinets housing titles like Twinbee, Salamander, Flying Shark, R-Type and a hundred others.  Home versions of those and other great shooters like Thunder Force IV, Apidya and Project X all light up the charts.  These were the glory days of the shoot’em up.

Then along game a rather talent Uber-Geek and he coded a fancy thing called a 3D game engine – shooters changed overnight and the rest is gaming history.

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Not quite as disgusting as the headline suggests (almost, but not quite) this little indie title is looking rather interesting.  Coming from the makers of the rather agreeable “Ben there, Dan that!“, UK based  Zombie Cow, this title looks to all intents and purposes like a very tasty HD update of the Earthworm Jim formula, mixed with some Worms and add a hint of “indie” flavour.

The edutainment game is being produced in a joint venture between Zombie Cow and the UK TV channel, Channel 4 (snappy title huh!) and was the subject of MUCH controversy a few weeks back due to it’s content.  You see the game takes place inside of people…   I think it best I let Zombie Cow explain this one:

Privates is a platform twin-stick shooter in which you lead a teeny-tiny gang of condom-hatted marines as they delve into peoples’ vaginas and bottoms and blast away at all manner of oozy, shouty monsters. It’s rude, funny, bitingly satirical and technically pretty accurate if you don’t count the tiny people or the germs with teeth.

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The Electronic Entertainment Expo has a long and strange history; the event achieved an attendance of 70,000 people in 2005 before dropping down to about 5,000 for the two invite-only years of 2007 and 2008. This year, attendance was estimated to be about 46,000, which is a far cry from 2007-2008 levels, yet just over half of the size of the 2005 show.

So the question is: What is the current state of E3, both for the attendee and the non-attendee? After attending this year, I can say one thing for certain. E3 still has a lot of room to improve if it’s going to remain the one event that gamers anticipate all year.

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Even I couldn’t have predicted this one. On a Rush exclusive game? Sure. On a basic entry? Not at all. Still, if Neversoft truly is going for the epic classics it really doesn’t get much more epic than 2112.

According to this news post from AltSounds Rush’s 1976 progressive rock epic 2112, which consist of 7 fully featured suites, will be making it’s way onto the disc of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.

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