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Las Vegas survived Crime Scene Investigation and Wayne Newton, but it will never look the same after it gets the Fallout treatment.

In the alternate-history video game Fallout: New Vegas, coming to Xbox 360, PS3 and Windows PCs this fall (no price and not yet rated), the Las Vegas Strip and surrounding area in 2280 bear the effects of a nuclear holocaust more than 200 years earlier during a great war between the United States and China.

The mystery is, who are you in this nuclear wasteland?

At the outset of the game, your character is shot and left in a shallow grave in the desert, lifted of the package you were entrusted with delivering. A robot digs you out and takes you to a local caregiver, Doc Mitchell, who nurses you back to health.   Read the rest of this entry »

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Available for 400 MSP from XBox Live Arcade, Chime is the first game released by the OneBigGame charity group, and more than half of the cost of the game goes to various children’s charities around the world.

That’s a noble idea, but is the game any good? At it’s core Chime is a simple single player puzzle game, clearly inspired by Tetris and played to some catchy electronic music from various artists like Moby and Philip Glass. You get to place the familiar Tetris pentominoe shapes on a flat board, trying to fill in rectangular areas which Chime calls ‘quads’. Once you create at least a 3 x 3 quad it starts to fill in. Until it fills in entirely you can expand the quad by adding more pieces, then you get scored for it. The catch is that filled quads remain in place, blocking placement of new pieces, until the sweeping ‘beat bar’ passes over them. The aim of the game is to try and paint the entire board with completed quads.   Read the rest of this entry »

There it was.. MAG.. The game that was going to host 256 concurrent players. The skepticism was high, Very High, and with a slight hint of Modern Warfare 2 burnout i approached the game carefully.

Sony’s Latest release was packed full of promise for those seeking the ultimate MMO first person shooter. And clearly from the outset this is a game that’s all about Massive Multi player Online. The only offline game you could play is the training sessions and there is no single player or story mode.

Based on some new server architecture MAG can allow up to 256 players online. The players are split up into squads of 8 each with a single team member assigned as the leader. There are then 4 squads formed together as a platoon, and then 4 platoons are formed to make a company. So that forms up to 128 players per side.   Read the rest of this entry »

The original Bioshock was one of those rare games that was universally acclaimed as a masterpiece. It’s success wasn’t so much in its gameplay (which was solid but not amazing), but instead in its originality, its narrative, and its dripping sense of atmosphere. As pretentious as this risks sounding, Bioshock was a game that truly deserved to be called art.

Sadly, news of Bioshock 2 has not been greeted warmly, right from its first announcement. Things just seemed to be stacked against it. For a start, it was handled by a different developer (2K Marin). And then it was announced that multiplayer was being tacked on, a stupid decision for a game which isn’t really about the shooting mechanics (which aren’t nearly as crisp as some games in the genre).   Read the rest of this entry »

Playstation have just released a list of new content for their PSN Store, and it’s a big list. For all the PS3 fans out there, you’ll find details after the jump.   Read the rest of this entry »

• The Halo Reach multiplayer beta will kick off on May 3. You will be able to access the beta via the Halo 3: ODST game disc.
• Dead Rising 2 will release in North America on Aug. 31, Japan on Sept. 2 and Europe on Sept. 3.
• Dead Rising: CASE ZERO an exclusive download only on Xbox LIVE, will launch prior to the full game and provide a playable prologue that bridges the story between the two titles.
• Alan Wake will launch May 18 in North America and May 21 in Europe. Players can pre-order the title to receive the Bright Falls Bonus Pack, which includes exclusive content like Avatar gear, an Xbox LIVE theme, and a “making of” video.
• The Xbox 360 Final Fantasy XIII Special Edition Bundle will release starting March 9 for $399, and include a 250GB Hard Drive, two Wireless Controllers, exclusive downloadable content and a Standard Edition copy of the game.
• Toy Soldiers will kick off the Xbox LIVE Arcade Block Party on March 3
• Perfect Dark, Scrap Metal and Game Room will launch this March as a part of the Xbox LIVE Arcade Block Party.
• Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction will release at retailers starting April 13 in North America, April 16 in the United Kingdom, and April 28 in Japan.
• Lost Planet 2 will launch in North America and Europe on May 18.
• Fable III will be available this holiday.

While not exactly surprising, Activision confirmed that they are committed to turning Call of Duty into an annual franchise at today’s Q4 conference call. We’re calling it Call of Duty 7 for lack of an official name, but Activision unfortunately didn’t share any details on the title’s setting or time period. After pointing out that this year’s profits were aided by the enormous success of Modern Warfare 2, the company noted they do not plan to see the same success with this year’s installment. No kidding.   Read the rest of this entry »