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Assassin’s Creed 2

 

Published 19 hours ago by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

As far as original intellectual properties go, Assassin’s Creed is one of this generation’s great success stories, selling 8 millions copies (as of April 2009) and spawning spin-offs on multiple platforms. It hasn’t all been a bed ...

Just Cause 2 landing in March

 

Published 19 hours ago by Chris Morell at D+PAD

The tropical adventure will be parachuting its way to US shelves on March 23 rd followed by the UK and Australia come the 26 th, Square Enix has announced. Developed by Avalanche Studios, Just Cause 2 is an open-world sandbox title following ...

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Tekken 6

 

Published 4 days ago by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

The fighting genre has experienced something of a comeback in recent times. In the wake of a triumphant return from the likes of Virtua Fighter, Soul Calibur and Street Fighter, Namco Bandai hopes to replicate such success with this latest instalment ...

D+PAD Magazine…now on Twitter!

 

Published 4 days ago by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

D+PAD Magazine is now on Twitter! Follow us for updates on our latest reviews, opinions, competitions and all-round tweeting goodness! www.twitter.com/dpadmagazine Win a copy of A Boy & His Blob (Wii) and Limited Edition art-book!  ...

Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time

 

Published 4 days ago by Graham Naunton at D+PAD

Is comparing Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, the latest adventure for everyone’s favourite (and most likely only) Lombax, to the globe trotting exploits of Nathan Drake in Uncharted 2 a good idea? We just can’t help ourselves, and it’s ...

Encleverment Experiment

 

Published 6 days ago by Chris Morell at D+PAD

However you feel about it, there’s no denying the casual market is profitable. After all, what are the odds your granny has even had a tentative go on Modern Warfare? While Nintendo may be sitting pretty atop mountains of cash, not everyone is happy ...

60% of Brits have suffered a broken 360

 

Published 7 days ago by Chris Morell at D+PAD

Around 60 per cent of Xbox 360 owners in the UK have experienced a console breakdown, CNET UK reported yesterday. These figures from CNET’s reliability survey also reveal the Playstation 3 has suffered a casualty rate of 16 per cent ...

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A Boy and His Blob

 

Published 7 days ago by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

It was after a full day’s play on Modern Warfare 2, my brain a tangle of dying civilians, gung-ho American patriotism and the sheer noise of contemporary gaming, that I started A Boy and His Blob. Far be it for D+PAD to try and reference Infinity ...

Sgt. Pepper DLC Gameplay Trailer

 

Published 7 days ago by D+PAD Staff at D+PAD

Following the release of the Abbey Road DLC for Beatles Rock Band, Harmonix today released a gameplay trailer for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonley Hearts Club Band DLC which is available to download now. The “Complete The Album Pack” features: Sgt. ...

LittleBigPlanet PSP

 

Published 7 days ago by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

If it genuinely is true that little things please little minds, then you may well have to consider us a bunch of pea-brains; LittlebigPlanet has arrived on the PSP and we’ve got big old smiles plastered across our faces! With this portable, ...

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Dragon Age: Origins

 

Published 8 days ago by Martin Gaston at D+PAD

Everybody loves a good beginning. Dragon Age: Origins revels in it – it’s suffixed Origins, for a start. But that’s a bit of a misnomer, as much of the game’s hype and anticipation comes from its claim of being a spiritual successor to the ...

Facebook arrives on Playstation 3 with Firmware update V3.10

 

Published 8 days ago by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

Sony has announced that the latest firmware update for the Playstation 3 will soon be ready for download. Though failing to add the much demanded cross-game chat feature, firmware 3.10 still holds some welcome features. Most interestingly, ...

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Final Fantasy XIII release dated

 

Published 9 days ago by Chris Morell at D+PAD

Final Fantasy XIII will be releasing on Xbox 360 and PS3 in the US and PAL territories simultaneously, it has been announced. With the date of March 9 confirmed, it seems those of us in Europe (and presumably Australia) will be playing the ...

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Modern Warfare 2 has biggest launch on record

 

Published 9 days ago by Chris Morell at D+PAD

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has sold almost 5 million units in combined sales on its opening day in the United Kingdom and United States alone, according to publishing giant Activision. To put this in to perspective, Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 ...

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Modern Warfare 2 ships 3 Million Units to UK

 

Published 14 days ago by Chris Morell at D+PAD

Potential Game of the Year Modern Warfare 2 has shipped 3 million units to the United Kingdom alone, Kotaku has reported.

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Borderlands

 

Published 14 days ago by Martin Gaston at D+PAD

Borderlands is a finicky one: at times at times it feels like it’s neither quite a shooter nor an RPG – it advertises itself on being a mix of both, or a “Role Playing Shooter” as developer Gearbox put it – but on other occasions it feels ...

NATAL launch details leaked?

 

Published 14 days ago by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

Website MCV claims to obtained information regarding the launch of Microsoft’s much awaited motion controller, currently codenamed ‘Project Natal. According to their source, Natal is to be released in worldwide in November 2010, ...

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D+PAD Magazine…now on Twitter!

 

Published 15 days ago by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

D+PAD Magazine is now on Twitter! Follow us for updates on our latest reviews, opinions, competitions and all-round tweeting goodness! www.twitter.com/dpadmagazine

Modern Warfare 2 Controversy: And so it begins…

 

Published 16 days ago by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

In a move that will no doubt not come as a surprise to many, the Daily Mail is leading the charge in expressing its outrage at ‘that scene’ from this years most anticipated Title ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2′ in which ...

D+PROMOTION: Win a copy of A Boy & His Blob Wii & Ltd Editon Art-book!

 

Published 16 days ago by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

D+PAD Magazine (in conjunction with Majesco Games) is pleased to be able to offer a copy of A Boy and His Blob for the Nintendo Wii along with a limited edition art book to one lucky winner! The Game : A tale of friends, heroes and… ...

EyePet

 

Published 23 days ago by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me….well….or so it says in Corinthians 13:11. I’m inclined to disagree with this adage ...

Abbey Road out now for Beatles Rock Band

 

Published 24 days ago by D+PAD Staff at D+PAD

Abbey Road the first full album download released for the game is available to download now. Individual Abbey Road singles: “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” “Oh! Darling,” and “Because” Price: £.99 UK (60 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per each ...

Lips: Number One Hits

 

Published 24 days ago by Zoheir Beig at D+PAD

When Microsoft first announced Lips, it wouldn’t have been stretching the limits of cynicism to think that it was just another tick in the Xbox’s ‘casual market’ checklist, with the console on its ceaseless drive to become all things to all people ...

Tower Bloxx Deluxe

 

Published 25 days ago by Chris Morell at D+PAD

Building on the success of the acclaimed mobile app Tower Bloxx, developer Digital Chocolate has brought its established game crashing onto Live Arcade with a few additional modes to sweeten the exorbitant price tag. The premise is simple. Hired by ...

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising

 

Published 26 days ago by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising has no time for beginners. Within minutes of my first play-through my squad and I had trekked in completely the wrong direction, I’d nearly slumped dead while taking cover shortly thereafter and surprisingly found ...

Forza Motorsport 3

 

Published 28 days ago by Graham Naunton at D+PAD

You have to admire the enduring popularity of the racing genre. From the earliest beginnings of videogame entertainment, driving games have been omnipresent in the evolution of the medium. As it turns out, they tend to be a rather accurate ...

FIFA 2010

 

Published 28 days ago by Paul Watson at D+PAD

Football’s a funny old game. That’s the phrase, right? The one that’s supposed to convey the extraordinary highs and lows, the shocks and shambles of the world’s favourite sport? One month you’re leading the pack, the ...

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Brutal Legend

 

Published 30 days ago by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

While his music doesn’t really push our buttons, Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell (released in 1977) had a fantastically schlocky album cover – a demonic bat watches as a skull adorned motorbike bursts from the ground, while the ...

MAG Beta – Hands-On

 

Published 10/25/2009 by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

People lose their minds as soon as they step online. It doesn’t matter if your teammate is Head of Intellectual Studies at Boffington University, as soon as the Ethernet cable is connected they’ll transform into a crazed, gibbering mess, nonchalantly ...

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

 

Published 10/22/2009 by Zoheir Beig at D+PAD

The opening months of every console’s life can be – much like the desolate mountaintop upon which Among Thieves begins – an unwelcoming and barren place. It takes a brave developer to step into the marketplace at this point and buck the vicious ...

Fallout 3: Game Of The Year Edition

 

Published 10/19/2009 by Martin Gaston at D+PAD

Like the stubbornly persistent citizens that dot its irradiated landscapes, Fallout 3 simply won’t die. Refusing to bow out after first being released this time last year, Bethesda have drip-fed five downloadable missions – Operation Anchorage ,  ...

Dead Space: Extraction

 

Published 10/16/2009 by Graham Naunton at D+PAD

The Dead Space franchise is evolving, mutating and expanding faster than a spaceship full of necromorphs. As well as last year’s debut, which reduced us to jibbering wrecks, we’ve also being treated to an animated film (Dead Space: Downfall) as well ...

The King Of Fighters XII

 

Published 10/11/2009 by Paul Watson at D+PAD

For many of us a large part of our childhoods were spent huddled around a 16-bit console, fingers viciously battering away at three chunky face buttons as the tiny television danced in vibrant pixels. Old-school fighting games were serious business. ...

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Need For Speed: SHIFT

 

Published 9/29/2009 by Zoheir Beig at D+PAD

Those cynical of EA’s annual attempt to make the seemingly long-stagnant Need For Speed series relevant would be well advised to look at the publisher’s handling of their FIFA titles over the last few years. A patient process of refinement has seen ...

The Beatles: Rock Band

 

Published 9/26/2009 by Graham Naunton at D+PAD

Isn’t it strange how two entities, at first glance seemingly nigh on identical, can be deconstructed to reveal the alarming truth – that, upon closer inspection, in fact they are two completely different propositions altogether? With that ...

PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe

 

Published 9/24/2009 by Martin Gaston at D+PAD

It’s been possible to play PixelJunk Monsters on your PSP for a while, as the cheap and cheerful PSN title supports the console’s rarely used Remote Play feature. But this, they say, is the definitive version of PixelJunk Monsters – that’s what the ...

Section 8

 

Published 9/23/2009 by Paul Watson at D+PAD

With Modern Warfare 2 shipping in just over a month’s time, you’d need to be quite brave or just downright foolhardy to release a first-person shooter now. Infinity Ward’s titan is, by all accounts, an improved follow-up to one of ...

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Colin McRae: DiRT 2

 

Published 9/21/2009 by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

When Colin McRae, his son and two friends were tragically killed in a helicopter accident back in September 2007, the driving superstar’s death resonated far beyond fans of rally, to millions of gamers to whom the name McRae will forever be ...

SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fire Team Bravo 3 – Hands-On

 

Published 9/21/2009 by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

Reaching a ninth instalment is quite an achievement, but does SOCOM: U.S. Naval SEALs Fire Team Bravo 3 (FTB3) mark a big change for the series, or does it play it safe and simply service the existing fan-base? On the basis of our hands-on with the ...

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Gran Turismo

 

Published 9/17/2009 by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

The PSP’s rocky relationship with Gran Turismo has been turbulent, to say the least. Announced as Gran Turismo 4 Mobile back with the PSP itself in 2004, the game has been subject to half a decade of delays and continual scepticism from detractors. ...

Motorstorm: Arctic Edge

 

Published 9/14/2009 by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

Is giving an established franchise a heavy frosting of snow and shoving it onto a hand-held enough to warrant attention? Big Big Studios seem to think so, and in this instance we’re inclined to agree – Motorstorm’s transition to ...

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Red Faction: Guerrilla

 

Published 6/7/2009 by D+PAD Staff at D+PAD

If the original Red Faction proved anything, it was that blowing holes in things is jolly good fun. At the time such a simple pleasure was big news, with Volition’s Geo-Mod technology pioneering the notion of destructible environments. Nowadays, of ...

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Guitar Hero: Metallica

 

Published 6/6/2009 by Simeon Paskell at D+PAD

Metallica are the very definition of ‘Monsters of Rock’; they’ve sold over 51 million records in the USA alone over a career spanning nearly three decades, can fill stadiums at the drop of a hat and sport a discography bulging at ...

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Boom Blox Bash Party

 

Published 6/5/2009 by Zoheir Beig at D+PAD

When Steven Spielberg first announced that he would be overseeing production of several new videogames, in partnership with EA, many would be forgiven for expecting some high-concept epic full of sentimentalism, annoying child actors, rubbish endings ...

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The Sims 3

 

Published 6/3/2009 by David Scammell at D+PAD

There have been many complaints levelled at The Sims over the years by those ‘less-appreciative’ of the series. “It’s boring,” the cynics shout, before following up with a howl of “there’s nothing to do,” and “it’s for girls.” They’d be right to some ...

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Q&A: Catching up with Criterion

 

Published 6/2/2009 by David Scammell at D+PAD

It’s been over a year since we last spoke to Criterion at the launch of their latest title, Burnout Paradise. But with no new projects announced since, nor any mention of the studio during EA’s E3 press conference last night, the world is ...

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Pokémon Platinum

 

Published 6/2/2009 by Zoheir Beig at D+PAD

To the casual observer the Pokémon games are understandably seen as just one small piece of a wider cultural behemoth that encompasses all manner of merchandising, their combined revenues bigger than that of many small countries (Platinum is, by our ...

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Damnation

 

Published 6/1/2009 by David Scammell at D+PAD

Haze and Lair were both the tragic results of a developer failing to live up to expectation. It came as quite the surprise; despite the pedigree of the two studios involved adding integrity to their lofty ambitions and haughty promises, the titles ...

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UFC 2009 Undisputed

 

Published 5/28/2009 by Nick Akerman at D+PAD

So far this generation, UFC fans have been left in the dark. It’s been five years since Sudden Impact, the last title to depict the brutally compelling sport, as THQ turn up with their fists fully clenched and ready to get on with business. It’s a ...

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Want a free inFamous T-shirt for PlayStation Home?

 

Published 5/22/2009 by David Scammell at D+PAD

What with our Damnation giveaway earlier today, it seems we’re giving stuff away this bank holiday weekend like there’s no tomorrow. To celebrate next week’s launch of inFamous, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has ...

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