Video Game News and Reviews

After hearing about the upcoming release of a new Street Fighter game, I was not sure if it could contend with other next-gen fighting titles such as Dead or Alive. After buying the game on Friday I soon released that not only does it compete, but it’s the best. When you first put the game in, you get this kick ass opening movie which looks amazing, plus,  if you have a HDTV, this scene deserves  to be treasured and watched every time you switch on the game. Now onto the game, this new street-fighter game come with many old characters such as Ken and Ryu. However, there are also several new characters such as Crimson Viper. Although the characters are great, with only a few different game…

It seems that the latest attempts to crack into the MMO market and steal some of the customers away from World of Warcraft has failed. With games like Warhammer Online and Age of Conan, there were some thoughts that World of Warcraft may loose some subscribers, but that doesn’t seem to be the fact. The first game to be released, Age of Conan, in May 2008, seemed to have a reasonably good start, with 400,000 subscribers, which then rose up to 700,000 within the first few months. However, it has gone down hill slightly. In January, Funcom, announced that they would be shutting down over half of the Conan servers, and recently, there have been rumors that Conan’s subscriber level…

With the release of a couple of big games set for release next week, Halo Wars and Killzone 2. I thought this post would be useful to some people. I’ll start with Halo Wars I guess. Halo Wars is a real time strategy game based in the time before the first Halo game. Halo Wars is only on the Xbox 360, and if you haven’t yet, you can download the Halo Wars demo for free just to give it a try. If you just want to see what to expect, here is one of the trailers for the game: Now for the second game, Killzone 2. This game is only for the PlayStation 3 and it looks absolutely amazing. This…

If you haven’t yet played the new Grand Theft Auto 4 The Lost and The Damned content, this will hopefully try and persuade you into buying it, I’ll try not to give anything away about the storyline. I must say, this is some amazing new content.  With a whole new range of great new weapons, including the grenade launcher, automatic pistol, several types of shotguns aswell as many more. There are also a wide range of new vehicles, especially bikes, there is a huge amount of bikes that all look similar but with different names, because of all of the above, it makes it great fun as you can discover all of the new stuff available. As for the story,…

Nintendo has announced the release date of their brand new handheld console the Nintendo DSi. The new DSi is the third version of the amazing Nintendo DS, and this new one looks like the best so far. This new handheld features a 3.25 inch touch sensitive screen (17% larger than DS Lite) , two 0.3 megapixel cameras which can take 640 x 480 pixel photos, one of the cameras is located on the hinge of the handheld, acting as a webcam. The DSi also features a built in DSi web browser allowing you to surf the web, improved speakers aswell as a huge range of other new features. Aswell as these features, the whole handheld is 12% slimmer than the…