Tag Archives: Consoles

Gavin Mannion

Is SimCity coming to consoles?

April 17, 2013 at 7:45 am | 25 Comments

EA have teamed up with Crest toothpaste in the States to offer some new DLC for all those gamers who pop out to their local shops to pick up a tube of toothpaste. Some sites are taking offense with this for ethical reasons but I do think that’s going a bit far.


Geoffrey Tim

Is Resident Evil: Revelations worth playing?

April 15, 2013 at 3:30 pm | 20 Comments

It’s not been a good time for Resident Evil fans. Though Resident Evil 5 was a fun co-operative game it just didn’t feel like Resident Evil; dispensing with the scares, the limited ammunition and the puzzles. Resident Evil Revelations on the 3DS was a more true-to-form Resident Evil game, bringing back much of the classic gameplay, while still providing the action that new fans of the series craved. It’s now heading to just about every other platform in a new, high-definition port – but is it really worth playing?


Geoffrey Tim

Diablo III: Better on console?

March 25, 2013 at 12:00 pm | 87 Comments

Blizzard’s devilish top-selling clickfest Diablo III is making its way to consoles soon – and by all accounts, it could well be the very best version of the game. Of course, that would come as no surprise to many Diablo III players, who’re convinced the latest game in the series is a dumbed-down game intended for consoles in the first place.


Darryn Bonthuys

Consoles by the numbers

January 31, 2013 at 3:00 pm | 35 Comments

Who had the most games? Whose games cost the most? Who had the best looking console in previous generations? These are questions that most of you will only be asking now, but they’re still interesting questions nonetheless. The majority of us grew up with at least one console in our homes, entertainment devices that went from catridges to DVDs, from wired controllers to power-gloves. Here’s a mathematical run down of some of the powerhouses from previous generations of gaming, how much they cost in their homebase of US of A, and how much a complete run of games would have set you back.


Geoffrey Tim

FFD: Are there too many damned gaming systems?

January 11, 2013 at 10:30 am | 92 Comments

Atari, SEGA, Panasonic, ColecoVision, SNK, NEC, Maganvox; they all used to make gaming hardware. Then PlayStation happened, making such an impact that it sent half the console manufacturers to the grave. Since then, console gaming has nearly always been a three-horse race; for the past two generations, we’ve had Sony, Nintendo an Microsoft as the big three. That’s changing…but is that a good thing?


Geoffrey Tim

No, console gaming is not dying

January 10, 2013 at 2:00 pm | 33 Comments

A curious thing has happened. Just a few short years ago, the industry , rather incorrectly, predicted the death of PC gaming. That’s not exactly happened; in fact, thanks to this prolonged console generation, many gamers are making a return to PC gaming. So many, in fact that many industry pundits now believe that consoles are on their way out.


Darryn Bonthuys

Thieves ruin Christmas with a daring Wii U robbery

December 19, 2012 at 9:45 am | 13 Comments

Ladies, gentlemen…and children, brace yourselves. Because your Christmas is about to be ruined. I’m not talking about that time that Daddy Christmas got shot down over Iraq in the Red Sleigh Down incident, or when Rudolph the reindeer found out that his nose was the result of something terminal. I’m talking about consoles.Gaming consoles that children have been wanting since December. Gaming consoles that have now been stolen by the truckload.


Darryn Bonthuys

Not even 1% left, as Crysis 3 maxes out consoles

December 12, 2012 at 9:00 am | 30 Comments

Think back to 2011, and if you had to name a contender for best visuals, you’d be hard pressed to find a game that looked better than Crysis 2. While new mods and extra hardware made the Independence Day simulator look unreal on PC, the game still looked real good on console. And for the next entry in that franchise, developer Crytek is promising a next-gen game on current-gen hardware.


Geoffrey Tim

Steam’s Big Picture out of Beta

December 4, 2012 at 9:45 am | 116 Comments

If there’s one single thing that console gamers like to laud over the PC master race, it’s that they game on large screens from the comfort of their couches. Of course, PC gamers can easily hook their beastly machines to TV’s as well, but it’s fiddly and cluttered,  encumbered with that bulky mouse and keyboard and beset by the lack of a nice big-screen UI to bring everything together. It’s just been made a whole lot easier by Valve.


Geoffrey Tim

007 developer cut, blames console gamers

November 26, 2012 at 9:00 am | 14 Comments

The latest game to feature the secret agent who’s been in his late thirties since the 1920’s, James Bond, was not at all well received; mostly because it was a rushed, buggy mess of incoherence. It’s developers will unfortunately not be able to make amends for it – because it’s been forced to lay off the majority of its staff.


Darryn Bonthuys

For GTA V, ‘now is the best timing of all’ for a current-gen release

November 15, 2012 at 9:00 am | 15 Comments

You can sugar-coat it as much as you want, but there’s no denying that the GTA brand is a powerhouse in gaming circles. It’s got the legacy and the fan-base necessary to shift quite a few units, something that could be used to really launch a next-gen console cycle. GTA V though, is pretty much arriving late to the game for the current cycle of consoles, but according to Rockstar’s Dan Houser, that’s because the best was saved for last.


Darryn Bonthuys

Behold, gaming Valhalla!

November 14, 2012 at 5:00 pm | 8 Comments

Sooner or later, we’re all going to die. Well, except for me, because thanks to denial, I’m effectively immortal. But as for the rest of us, that’s an inevitable fact. Where do we go when we shuffle off of this mortal coil? Oblivion? Heaven or hell? Personally, I’m hoping that old gamers who die in battle get to go a realm like this, which I call gaming Valhalla.


Geoffrey Tim

Mobile gaming killing consoles? Nope.

July 2, 2012 at 1:30 pm | 6 Comments

Mobile gaming - the sort done on smartphones and tablets - is killing the traditional videogame industry. That’s the opinion of many analysts who’ve charted the successes of companies like Rovio and Gree, believing that they’ll soon challenge consoles for hardcore gamers’ hearts. DICE’s GM Karl Magnus Troedsson thinks that’s a load of horse manure.


Geoffrey Tim

PC graphics 24 times that of the 360

June 15, 2012 at 9:00 am | 79 Comments

The recent Unreal engine 4 demos have been impressive to say the least. Showing off all manner of particle effect and delicious realism (well, as real as you’d expect a giant black knight in a fiery setting to look) it certainly presents a generational leap.

And it was running on a single Nvidia GTX 680.


Darryn Bonthuys

Is this the single greatest gaming setup, of all time?

May 18, 2012 at 3:30 pm | 19 Comments

I have this dream. It revolves around winning the Powerball lottery, and using the money to build myself a fortress of solitude. Probably somewhere in Cape Town. Of course, my future mansion is going to have a rather kickass entertainment room, with big screen TVs, chairs made from some sort of endangered animal leather and a gaming setup that will give anyone who walks into the room a massive rush of blood to the groin.

And then I saw this setup, which promptly kicked my dream in the nads, shattering it with this overpowering tribute to gaming majesty .

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