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Darryn Bonthuys

DUST 514 arrives May 14

April 29, 2013 at 3:00 pm | 16 Comments

Free to play. It’s the way to go I tells ya. And it’s all perfectly legitimate and fair when you think about it. Like a glorified demo version of a game, the whole idea is to hook you in and keep you on the end of that line. And one of the biggest experiments in that genre, DUST 514, finally arrives next month.


Darryn Bonthuys

Fuse’s Echelon mode is going to be brutal

March 13, 2013 at 1:30 pm | 8 Comments

What does every game need these days? A monolithic wave of enemies that get increasingly more difficult on a specific multiplayer stage? Erm, well yes, apparently they do. The upcoming Fuse from Insomniac Games is going to have just such an online mode. And it’s going to be brutal.


Darryn Bonthuys

No refund for copies of SimCity bought on Origin

March 8, 2013 at 9:45 am | 33 Comments

SimCity launches today! A game where you get to build metropolises, grow a city and then unleash all manner of hell on it. Well, it’s what I would do at least, seeing as how I still regularly brick up my Sims in their homes and leave them to die a horrible death. The thing is, SimCity has had a very rocky launch so far, as the always-online game has been hit with an Error 37 level of denied service and crammed servers. A lot of folks have thrown their hands in the air and taken back their game copy to get a refund. It’s just a pity that anyone who bought the game on Origin, is pretty much screwed.


Darryn Bonthuys

Rumour – Diablo 3 will be an offline game on Playstation

February 26, 2013 at 9:00 am | 22 Comments

If there was one component of Diablo 3, one factor that really drove fans Barbarian mad, it had to be that the game required a constant internet connection in order to be played. A connection that inevitably had some issues with lag and consistency. Sure, it had some benefits in the form of co-operative play, but sometimes, people just want to be alone when they slay their way through Sanctuary. The game is now on the way to PlayStation platforms, and it looks like it may be going offline for those gamers.


Geoffrey Tim

New Gears of War leaked, Microsoft warns of bans

February 19, 2013 at 2:30 pm | 19 Comments

It’s only out in a month’s time, but Gears of War: Judgement, the next game in the blockbuster third person shooter franchise has been leaked online, meaning once again that pirates get to play before paying customers. It’s popped up on torrent sites and other bits of the internet’s seedy underbelly; just know this – playing the game online will probably get your console banned.


Darryn Bonthuys

Destiny – Bungie’s brave new world finally revealed

February 17, 2013 at 8:00 pm | 16 Comments

If there is one thing that the gaming industry does well, it’s crafting out adventures with elements inspired from other games. Without Batman: Arkham Asylum we wouldn’t have a gritty successor such as Sleeping Dogs, or if Gran Turismo had never popped up, hyper realistic racing games would still be a pipe dream to enthusiasts. Over a decade ago, Bungie got the ball rolling with their console shooter Halo. It set a new benchmark back then for a genre largely seen as the domain of PC gamers. Years later and with a successful franchise behind them, Bungie is looking to recapture that spark of a new and exciting universe. A universe that they've named...Destiny.


Darryn Bonthuys

Insomniac Games can’t imagine single-player only titles

September 13, 2012 at 10:45 am | 10 Comments

You’d be hard pressed to find any game these days that doesn’t have some modicum of online play. Sometimes it’s brilliant. sometimes it feels like a tacked-on experience that cheapens the single-player, but like it or not, multiplayer is a direction the industry has been towards for quite a while, and that’s a path that Insomniac’s Ted Price can’t imagine straying from, as his studio works on Fuse, formerly known as Overstrike.


Geoffrey Tim

Ubisoft apologises for Uplay downtime

July 16, 2012 at 11:30 am | 13 Comments

This weekend, following a surge of new game sales thanks to Steam’s always popular summer sale, Ubisoft’s PC gaming service UPlay was brought to its knees - leaving many PC gamers unable to play the new games they’d just bought.


Geoffrey Tim

Nintendo to implement unified accounts

July 9, 2012 at 2:30 pm | 3 Comments

Not too long ago, I speculated that Nintendo might actually get its online act together with the Wii U. They’re appeasing, and appealing to core gamers this time around - and the only way to keep that particular userbase these days (it seems) is through online multiplayer. showing that the company is at least thinking forward (well, thinking at least) they’ve confirmed that the Wii U and the 3Ds will share a unified online system.


Geoffrey Tim

A hell of a way to do a job interview

July 4, 2012 at 3:00 pm | 11 Comments

Job interviews suck. They’re stressful - and a terribly way to spend a Wednesday morning. It can be especially draining on gamers - whether they’re socially awkward, or just too damned busy trying to pilfer the remains of dead demons for loot. An advertising agency in Israel is catering to just that demographic - by conducting interviews for a programmer position through Blizzard’s Diablo III.


Tauriq Moosa

Moosa’s Musings: Fighting Online Trolls

July 3, 2012 at 12:15 pm | 112 Comments

Greetings, weary traveller. Rest, by this here fire and drink with me. I see by your face that you’re one of those ignorant souls who foolishly – foolishly, I say! – decided to combine two powerful items, that upon their fusing, create such chaos and darkness and horror it’s any wonder our world still remains! Aye, you would combine the bizarre notion of “being informed” about a topic plus – by Odin’s beard! – expressing it to others on the Interwebs! Ah, what dangerous lands these are.


Geoffrey Tim

Has Nintendo finally gotten online right?

June 4, 2012 at 3:00 pm | 2 Comments

Nintendo’s consoles - even in this day of online connectivity - just haven’t quite gotten the online functionality quite right. The 3DS - while ostensibly better than the Wii’s awful online - certainly made improvements, but still, unlike the PS3 and Xbox 360, felt disconnected.

That could be set to change with the Wii U.


Darryn Bonthuys

The Elder Scrolls goes online next year

May 4, 2012 at 10:00 am | 25 Comments

Hey, remember back in mid-march when we spoke about a possible online version of the world of Tamriel? Well, it looks like those rumours were true, as the Elder Scrolls is indeed venturing into the world of online play.

PC and Mac gamers will get to experience the world of Tamriel and all its dragon-slaying glory with each other soon, when The Elder Scrolls Online launches next year. Console gamers however, are being FUS-ROH-DAed out of the door.


Gavin Mannion

Want to know how to play Age of Empires online?

March 28, 2012 at 10:00 am | 5 Comments

Did you know Microsoft was making it’s popular Age of Empire game into an online free to play title? Do you care?

Well if you didn’t know or do care then this is the video for you. It’s a simple trailer that walks us through what the game will be about, how it will be played and what it will look like.


Darryn Bonthuys

GTA V gang warfare multiplayer will have links to other Rockstar games

March 23, 2012 at 11:30 am | 5 Comments

 

While Rockstar games are known for their solid and lengthy single-player campaigns in games, the multiplayer content that they pack in with the final product isn’t too bad either. Red Dead Redemption is one such example of online play done right.

Max Payne 3 is going to be out soon, with some intriguing multiplayer designed around taking crews into battle while somehow furthering the plot, as well as the addition of internet magic to make bullet-time between scores of players a reality.

It’s all about being social, according to Rockstar, and they want to extend that feeling by merging the multiplayer of Max Payne 3 with that other massive game that they’re launching, GTA V.

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