Well, it sounds like we’re late jumping on this bandwagon already. In its five days since announcement, the beta testing for COD:Elite (Activision’s new online multiplayer service be be released with Modern Warfare 3 on November 8th 2011) has already surpassed over 1 million registrants. That’s a whole thousand thousand Call of Duty:Black Ops gamers … Continue reading »
Crumbs! The App store launched these 2 little gems yesterday. Firstly a port of the 1992 side-scroller X-Men, the arcade and then, the slightly more contemporary addition of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Now I haven’t tested either of these first hand but from the looks of it, they’ll both be great if you know what … Continue reading »
Although not strictly gaming news, it’s probably relevant to a lot of us. Here are a couple of titbits for you iPhone and iPad users out there: With WWDC on June 6th, confirmed releases will be the iCLoud, OS X 10.7 Lion and, of course, iOS5. As Hard And Soft gaming isn’t a sweaty-palmed, frantic … Continue reading »
Scan Logs Show That Sony Servers Were Running Extremely Dated Programs and Web Services – Vulnerabilities of Obsolete Software Known for Years on the Internet
An eagle-eyed gamer from the U.S has spotted the following ad in a ‘Best Buy’ circular, revealing the previously un-announced DLC option for Rockstars detective thriller. L.A Noire which will be released tomorrow US and over here on the 20th May 2011, have not previously alluded to any such release but clearly someone knows something … Continue reading »
PopCap Games, the worldwide leader in casual games, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Amazon to offer its first Android games to the U.S. market, exclusively on the Amazon Appstore for Android during two different two-week periods. As part of the agreement, Chuzzle® will be available beginning tomorrow, May 17th, until May … Continue reading »
That’s right folks. IGN have done some digging here and there and found a global release date for Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 3 as November 8th this year. Someone leaked this Australian retail Point Of Sale and it’s quite clear on the release date. How conveniently in time for a Christmas hype you say? … Continue reading »
So the PSN debacle is now getting very real for Playstation. And when i say very real i mean the very real that financiers, creditors and people like THE BANK care about.
Crysis 2 is about to get its first piece of downloadable content, in the form of four new multiplayer maps under the ‘Crysis 2: Retaliation’ moniker . It’ll be out on May 17 on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 (PSN service dependent) And the teaser video can be found here to do some whetting of the proverbial … Continue reading »
It looks like those crazy cats at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, you may have heard of it…..) are working on a new method of creating that glasses-free 3D goodness we all know and love. The word on the internet street is that it’s called HR3d (High Rank 3D) and allows a clearer, brighter and … Continue reading »
Just had a play with one of these. Overall, pretty damn good. Compared to the iPad 2? Faster, more responsive, sleeker, more grown up buttons, proper keyboard with a TAB key, MUCH greater browser functionality (including ‘incognito mode….) equal video and camera capabilities but with the added versatility of Android 3.0 (Honeycomb).
After a bit of tinkering with the developer build of OS X 10.7 LION, here are my initial thoughts: New features are as follows: Facetime, Launchpad, Airdrop, Fullscreen Apps., iPad style Mail and a new look and feel to the Finder. That appears to be it. Facetime is self-explanatory. Internet video calls from your mac to … Continue reading »
Oh Dear Lord. This game makes me squeal like a pig in custard. Or, more relevantly, a fat bloke wedged into a turbo charged V8 Caterham Superlight 500, on a 150mph follow-through. I intend to be rampantly biased about this game as i’m a car enthusiast but then, i think that the fact that it keeps a … Continue reading »
