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Darryn Bonthuys

Xbox has a “ton of exclusives” in store for E3

May 20, 2013 at 7:45 am | 51 Comments

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the console generations of our lives. While Playstation won me over with the first and second generations of the modern console era, over the last eight years, I’ve unashamedly felt that Xbox had the best console this generation. Even though when it came to exclusive games, it had about as many of those as Star Trek had good sequels. Time to change all that then, as Microsoft has something up its sleeve for the upcoming future.


Darryn Bonthuys

You can now grab pizza from your Xbox 360

April 24, 2013 at 9:00 am | 58 Comments

I’ve got to hand it to Microsoft, because they certainly do know how to ring every single last cent out of a product. The Xbox 360 already makes cash from Live subscriptions and advertisements, and now, it’s adding fast food to the coffers.


Darryn Bonthuys

Rumour – The Next Xbox will have mandatory Kinect

February 12, 2013 at 7:45 am | 21 Comments

Move aside Playstation, because you’ve got some competition on the way. While everyone is waiting to see what Sony will be announcing on February 20 (PLAYSTATION MOVE 2!), there’s also Microsoft and their Xbox division, with codename Durango on the horizon. So what can we expect from that piece of next-gen tech? Mandatory installs, Kinect integration and multi-tasking, for starters.


Darryn Bonthuys

And the top 20 most-played Xbox 360 games of 2012 are…

January 23, 2013 at 1:30 pm | 13 Comments

SO WHAT’S EVERYONE PLAYING RIGHT NOW? Say what you like about the state of gaming today, but people are always going to vote with their wallets. And when you’ve paid some serious cash for a certain game, you’re pretty likely to spend many a night playing it, while your loved ones ask you to come back, because you’re breaking the family apart with your constant nights spent playing My Little Pony Online and I’m drifting again. Xbox number man Major Nelson recently revealed the Top 20 list of most played games for 2012, and quite frankly, no one is going to be surprised at the results.


Darryn Bonthuys

Rumour – The Playstation 4 is going to be floppier than the Next-Box

January 18, 2013 at 9:00 am | 40 Comments

What do you want out of your next-gen console? Do you want to impersonate Jeremy Clarkson and yell MOAR POWERRRR at the top of your lungs, or would you rather have hardware designers take a gamble and include some newer method of playing games? If there is one thing that gamers can expect though, it’s that future hardware is going to be a bit more floppy.


Darryn Bonthuys

This collector’s controller for Tomb Raider is very distressed

January 11, 2013 at 11:15 am | 20 Comments

Much like Gavin, I too have a bit of a hard spot for specialised gaming controllers. While it may not be as bad as my love for stationary (Oh yeah, work those gel ink pens!), I’m still a complete sucker when it comes to forking out cash for one of them. And I like the look of this controller that’s aimed at the Tomb Raider crowd. Like, this much. No maybe this much!


Darryn Bonthuys

Microsoft unveils their next Xbox add-on, the IllumiRoom

January 10, 2013 at 9:00 am | 4 Comments

A while back, we had a look at an interesting new patent that Microsoft was working on, a piece of tech that expanded Augmented Reality into the living room. A fancy idea, it was just that, an idea. And now, Microsoft is going into the proof of concept stage as they revealed the IllumiRoom yesterday.


Darryn Bonthuys

The Lazygamer Awards 2012 – Best Xbox 360 Game

December 20, 2012 at 2:00 pm | 9 Comments

 

Okay, stop laughing. Yes, the Xbox 360 may be about as exclusive as a bad Kempton Park night club, but that doesn’t mean that the limited releases we saw this year on that platform were half-arsed. Well, except for quite a few Kinect ones, but that goes without saying. No, if there was one exclusive game to have this year on that platform, it would have to be…


Darryn Bonthuys

Is the next-gen Xbox console capable of transforming our rooms into game worlds?

September 12, 2012 at 7:45 am | 17 Comments

 

 

Like it or hate it, it’s hard to deny that the first next-gen console, the Nintendo Wii U, has an interesting hook to it. That’s something that defines the hardware of various cycles, as an attempt to expand on how we play games, can be seen as either a revolution, or a cheap gimmick. Has Microsoft found their revolution with their upcoming Xbox 360 successor?


Darryn Bonthuys

Trials Evolution goes Gold on PC, Xbox owners learn the Origin of Pain

September 7, 2012 at 1:00 pm | 7 Comments

It’s no secret that we love us some Trials Evolution over here. It’s mental, painful fun that will leave a controller or two embedded in your TV screen, and yet, we always come back crawling to it once we finally nail that crucial jump. Xbox owners have been engaging in this digital masochistic behaviour for a while now, and finally, the game is headed to PC.


Darryn Bonthuys

Consoles still have a good 6-8 years of life left in them, says Unreal Engine creator

March 15, 2012 at 1:30 pm | 10 Comments

Gaming consoles have proven themselves to be an enduring platform over the years, but current industry trends have begun to paint a picture wherein that particular hardware may start to face a decline in the future.

Smart-Phones and tablet devices have begun to catch up in recent years, with more and more impressive breakthroughs arriving every week. So it pretty much looks like we need to defenestrate our Xboxes and Playstations, and grab an iPad for our next Call of Duty title, right?

Not so says Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games and designer of the first Unreal engine, as he firmly believes that our current generation of consoles are still good for at least another 6-8 years on play.


Darryn Bonthuys

CD Projekt explains why The Witcher 2 has console exclusivity

February 21, 2012 at 1:00 pm | 9 Comments

Skyrim and Kingdoms of Amalur may be dominating the RPG scene at the moment, but that might all change soon when The Witcher 2 arrives on the Xbox console in April.

Owners of the Microsoft platform are eagerly anticipating the release of a game that was exclusive to the PC back in 2011, but unfortunately, PS3 owners are being left out in the cold when it comes to male-witchery experiences.

And developer CD Projekt has a good reason for that apparently.


Geoffrey Tim

Kinect, says Ghost Recon developer, is like a “inflatable doll”

January 27, 2012 at 11:30 am | 6 Comments

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier’s IP director Adrian Lacey has likened Kinect’s motion controls to expensive, opened-mouthed inflatable sex toys.

Wait, what?


Paulo Toureiro

Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, A new title from Bethesda

March 16, 2010 at 4:00 pm | 0 Comments

Bethesda have announced that they will be publishing a new fantasy game from inXile Entertainment.  Although inXile veered away from any major platform since their mediocre adaptation of “The Bard’s Tale” to consoles in 2004, their founder, Brian Fargo is very well known for the projects he has been part of, of which Carmageddon, Fallout  and Baldur’s Gate are just a few. Bethesda is undoubtedly one of the forerunners in the Fantasy/Role Playing genre, and are known for taking on great projects that have a massive fan base. From the screens that have been released thus far, this co-op, cross-platform dungeon crawler looks good, lets hope Bethesda build on their reputation and that of Brian Fargo’s.

Gavin Mannion

GTA IV Xbox vs PC

December 22, 2008 at 9:31 am | 14 Comments

There have been a lot of complaints about the technical and software requirements for GTA IV on PC but once you get it all up and running is it really worth it?

Well after watching this video then I would say that if you were looking for the best graphics then the PC version is by far your best option.

Though I have to admit that I don’t remember the 360 version being so blue… I guess you just get used to it.

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