Category: Gaming
Top 50 Games That Changed The World: Nos 50-46
At the risk of sounding as impenetrable as those Grand Theft Auto cultural theorists the other week, video games are now a proper, genuine art form in their own right. Even if they're still often not treated as such by…
Sony PS3 video special: MotorStorm and Ridge Racer 7 racing games
If I have a criticism of the PS3's launch line-up, it's that it's a bit predictable. Sure, all the key console genres are represented – sports, driving, Halo first-person shooters etc. But they're mostly a case of being same-old same-old,…
Sony PS3 video special: 16 black PSPs, hangin' on the wall…
Not an earth-shattering thing, this, but at last night's PS3 bloggers event in London, Sony had 16 PSPs casually hanging on the wall, displaying games and video content. I almost decided there and then to recreate it in my living…
Sony PS3 video special: A quick nose around the PlayStation Store
The online PlayStation Store is clearly central to Sony's ambitions for PS3, and not just so you can download old PSone games to play on your PSP either. Sony's Phil Harrison talked a fair bit about the potential for offering…
Sony PS3 video special: Resistance: Fall Of Man
Resistance: Fall of Man is being touted as the PS3's Halo-beater (mainly, it has to be said, because it's quite a lot like Halo). Sony was showing it off at last night's Bloggers Event on back-to-back TVs for proper deathmatching…
Sony PS3 video special: NBA 07 struts its funky stuff
Speaking as a sporty gaming man (i.e. all my sporting activity is conducted from the sofa. With crisps.), NBA 07 was the game that grabbed me most at last night's Sony PS3 bloggers event. Not in a revolutionary 'new paradigm…
Sony PS3 video special: the photo-viewing mode in action
One of the most impressive things at last night's Sony PS3 Bloggers event was getting hands on with the console's multimedia functions, such as music and photo viewing. The 3D photo slideshow in particular sounded like a bit of a…
Live: Sony's PS3 bloggers event
So, here we are sat on comfy cushions in a cushty Shoreditch studio, at Sony's PS3 event for bloggers. We're kicking off with a demo of PS3's features, before a Q&A session with the company's Phil Harrison. First interesting thing…
30 features we’d like to see added to Nintendo’s Wii Mii Creator
Well, the team over at Shiny's Nintendo Wii blog, Wii Wii, have finally got their consoles and are busy playing games, telling the world about it and creating their characters in their own image with the Wii Mii Creator. But…
Microsoft launch XNA Game Studio Express, XNA Creators Club, and Dream-Build-Play game creation competition
We've reported on the XNA Game Studio Express before, and today Microsoft released this software that allows anyone to create their own Xbox 360 game using Windows XP. They've also launched the XNA Creators Club, and a global game…