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Derby council has thrown out the naming of a road to readers of its website – and the chances are that online communities will all but guarantee that gaming icon Lara Croft get's her own little part of the City's ringroad. A mass of votes has already been cast for Lara Croft way, with the ...
Gaming
Lara Croft
Will Wright
The Xbox 360 has fast become the best value console on the market, and there are some fantastic deals around for this next generation console. With competition steep between the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii, it's not difficult to grab some bargains on bundles, games and peripherals. Pixmania ...
Gaming
Xbox 360
The thing with the Wii is less about identifying 12 of the best accessories as avoiding the teeming legions of rubbish ones. It seems like everyone's had a crack at moulding white plastic into funny shapes you can then pop a Wiimote into. Here, however, are a few of the ones which are ...
Gaming
Wii
A Taiwanese player has (sort of) completed World of Warcraft – doing every quest, collecting virtually everything he can and going everywhere – at least until the next expansion hits. According to MMO Champio, a Tauren Druid called 'Little Grey' has 986 out of 986 achievements on his armory ...
Gaming
World of Warcraft
Tories have called for music and sports videos to be given film-style ratings to protect children from inappropriate sexual and violent content. Shadow Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt unveiled the Conservatives media policy at this week's Manchester Media Festival, highlighting a loophole in the ...
Gaming
Music
The Hunt
A bug has marred the launch of Sega's latest Super Monkey Ball 2 on iPhone this week. While we were more than happy to see the latest outing in Sega's sublime monkey rolling game franchise arrive on the app store this week, reports are quickly emerging from some users experiencing teething ...
Gaming
Super Monkey Ball 2
Sega
Mars
iPhone
According to the latest reports coming out of Japan, Nintendo is scaling back on Wii production, cutting the number of consoles being manufactured. Nintendo's suppliers - Mitsumi and Hosiden – now face huge drops in revenue linked to the Wii's "declining fortunes" and the resulting "drop-off in ...
Gaming
Wii
Nintendo
Tennis star Andy Murray's relationship reportedly ended because of his addiction to his PlayStation. Sears and British number one Murray split at the weekend, with an announcement that the parting of ways was amicable and mutually agreed. However, a report in The Sun suggests that the real ...
Gaming
Call of Duty
PS3
The Xbox 360 has fast become the best value console on the market, and there are some fantastic deals around for this next generation console. With competition steep between the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii, it's not difficult to grab some bargains on bundles, games and peripherals. If ...
Gaming
Xbox 360
It's already been a good year for the PlayStation 3, but yet more great news has arrived for the console ahead of Christmas with the hint that software giant Bioware will bring development for Sony's platform in-house. Bioware is one of the biggest names in gaming, and had previously at least ...
Gaming
PS3
BioWare
Mass Effect
On the face of it, DirectX 11 is just the latest in a long line of multimedia APIs. Great if you have a fetish for fragment shaders, moderately interesting if you're a keen PC gamer, but otherwise a bit of a niche subject. DirectX 11, however, is a bit different. There are several reasons to ...
Gaming
PC
Mickey Rourke has gone through something of a renaissance in the Naughties, lending his grizzled chops to some of the decade's best cult films – Sin City and The Wrestler to name but two. Now Rourke has brought his talents to the videogame world, voicing Richard 'Demo Dick' Marcinko, a ...
Gaming
Rogue Warrior
Xbox 360
Xbox 360 owners who are also fans of the BBC iPlayer are in for yet more disappointment, after it emerged the media platform won't be coming to Microsoft gaming hardware anytime soon. The iPlayer channel, which is already available to PS3 and Wii users, is hitting a brick wall with the Xbox ...
Gaming
Xbox
Microsoft
Xbox 360
To the tales of fighter pilots training on PC flight simulators we can now add the one about the boatload of sailors learning the ropes through a Sony PSP. The story comes from the UK's Royal Navy, which has just invested £50,000 in 230 PlayStation Portable handhelds to help marine engineers ...
Gaming
PC
Sony
PSP
We all know both that playing computer games is a largely male-dominated arena and that Nintendo has long had an eye on changing that, but we didn't know just how successful the company has already been. According to a presentation given by Nintendo bigwig Reggie Fils-Aime , the number of ...
Gaming
Nintendo
Wii
Reggie Fils-Aime
Cheating can, of course, be a good thing. We've all entered cheat codes into games to unlock special modes, to obtain weapons, to give ourselves infinite ammo, or extra lives. The reason those cheat codes exist is that the developers knew their prospective players would want the option to play ...
Gaming
Nintendo aims to get tough on piracy (and touch on the causes of piracy) looking very closely at possible copyright infringements related to Nintendo games on mobile phones this month. Nintendo's legal beagles are looking at those phones that are able to run emulators of older Nintendo ...
Gaming
Nintendo
Nintendo aims to get tough on piracy (and touch on the causes of piracy) with its new 'piracy tsar' looking very closely at possible copyright infringements related to Nintendo games on mobile phones this month. Nintendo's legal beagles are looking at those phones that are able to run emulators ...
Gaming
Nintendo
Square Enix's President – and one of the most powerful men in the Japanese gaming industry – has seen into the future. And one thing he doesn't see is that console under your telly. That's right. When none other than SqEnix boss Yoichi Wada wades into the debate about the future of consoles, ...
Gaming
Square Enix
Sony
Microsoft
Are you a performance-orientated gamer or a mastery-orientated gamer? Have you even considered what 'type' of gamer you are? Have you even got the faintest clue what we are on about? The latest analysis of the psychological underpinnings of the different types of challenges presented in ...
