Video Game News and Reviews

In 2007, Portal was released as part of The Orange Box, alongside Half Life 2: Episode 2 and the revamped Team Fortress 2. The game instantly became a hit with gamers, often higher rated than the other games available in The Orange Box. Although the game itself was only considered a ‘trial’ by Valve when they released it, due to it’s massive success, it’s prompted the Half Life series developers to create a sequel, Portal 2. The sequel was announced in March earlier this year and is set for release early next year. If you’re a fan of the Portal game, you’ll most likely know all of that above, however, did you know that Jinx.com, the gaming clothing company, has…

Bungie have released a complete version of their “Deliver Hope” live-action trailer which features an epic battle. It looks like Bungie are once again trying to wet our appetites prior to their latest Halo game release next week, and my appetite is soaking. It’s a real shame that they never released a Halo move as if it was up to the same quality as the “Deliver Hope” trailer, I would be absolutely blown away. Unfortunately for the time being us gamers will have to settle for the awesome looking Halo: Reach which is being released on September 14th (next Tuesday). Enjoy.

Last week’s top 40 games chart has shown that crime really does pay. Chart-Track has released the top 40 gaming chart for the week ending September 4th and for a second week in a row, the top spot has gone to the recently released Mafia II. Despite a 23% reduction in sales since the previous week, which was the greatest fall of all the top 10 selling games, Mafia II publisher Take-Two still expects the game to continue bringing in the big bucks for some time to come. With the Mafia II first DLC pack being released for Xbox 360 and PC tomorrow, it looks like Take-Two will be getting another money boost over the next few days but with…

After several weeks without any decent games being released in June/July, I was really pleased to see Mafia II being released so not buying it was out of the question really, and to be honest, I’m glad I did buy it. In the week since the game was released, I have completed the game and have started playing through it again and although I know the storyline from the first run through, it still entertains me and keeps me gripped. The American dream… In the game you play as Vito Scaletta, son of a Sicilian family who moved to America when he was a boy. While growing up you become friends with Joe Barbaro which leads to the pair of…

Take-Two’s crime based game, Mafia II, was released last week and although it hasn’t been out long, the game is already getting it’s downloadable content pack. The new pack will be titled “The Betrayal of Jimmy” and will be released on the Xbox 360 and PC on September 7th. As for Playstation 3 gamers, well they’ve already had been able to get a early taster of the add-on because the pack was released the same day as the actual game. In-fact, if you bought a new or used copy of Mafia II for the Playstation 3, you received the download pack for free. Unfortunately for Xbox 360 and PC gamers, when the pack is released next week, they will have…