Right, we’re going to cover this one for the sake of all those poor, tortured souls like us that have become entangled in what’s essentially an exercise in lateral thinking.
The videogames industry can at times rather sadly be entirely predictable, expressing one opinion from the left side of its mouth while spewing out bile from the other side. We speak, naturally, of Backbreaker, NaturalMotion’s recent American Football title featuring collision technology that could potentially revolutionise sports gaming.
Much time has been spend on team X360 this week, with FIFA and PES preview code in our mortal hands, lamenting this age of po-faced, officially licensed football titles, with us all wishing for the time when our kick-ball involved just a little more…humour. Be it through financial agreements or an obsession on simulation, footy titles just don’t do silly like they used to. Here’s a trip into our dim and distant past…
Seven XBox games that have been “de-made” in 2D for older generation hardware.
For those short in attention span, allow X360 to provide a run-down of all titles out in this fine month of July. It’s not going to be a particularly long post…
The announcement of specific payment methods for any videogame title is typically met with thousands of frothing Computer Boys abusing their return keys. The truth is though, in this neo-conservative age, a little consumer choice could go a long way to righting some of gaming’s ills…
Guillermo Del Toro, director of Hellboy and the award-winning Pan’s Labyrinth fame is making his debut into the games Industry.
For all the good we receive on the Xbox 360, there’s a group of games that just have to go and ruin it for everyone else
This week saw the release of Starcraft II : Wings of Liberty on the PC. At the moment it appears to be getting positive buzz, but we’re convinced that it could be even better on 360. Here’s why:
Now it’s king of the footballing hill, you might think EA has done everything right in its battle for supremacy against PES. As ever, you would be wrong: EA has still omitted one crucial element that made its old games so special, and as such, FIFA 11 has no hope of matching Road to World Cup 98…
In somewhat surreal news, the most recent videos to emerge previewing EA’s latest American Football sim show the country’s head of state barack Obama congratulating the New Orleans Saints on winning consecutive Super Bowls…
Think Dragon Punching Paul into cheap, predictable pulp sounds appealing? Wait until you’ve tried our alternatives for size! They’re this: probably better.
It’s been a bumper few weeks for Say What?, so much so that we think we’ve been spoiled: what with the various spats between developers and publishers, we feel like the massed ranks of gaming talent has taken to doing our job for us. While this column usually delights in taking a light-hearted approach to putting humorous words in the mouths of industry bigwigs, we’ll let the Daily Star’s retraction of a story it ran alleging that Rockstar Games was a developing a title based on the killings of Raoul Moat speak for itself.
