Tag Archives: Sega

Geoffrey Tim

EA: "The Wii U is crap”

May 20, 2013 at 9:45 am | 48 Comments

You may have heard that EA is not exactly supporting Nintendo’s Wii U much – and likely won;t support it in the future. That in itself is bad enough – but now we have one of EA’s software engineers taking the gloves off completely, saying that the Wii U is “crap.”


Zoe Hawkins

SEGA saving the Wii U?

May 13, 2013 at 10:30 am | 30 Comments

Finally, there's some good news for Nintendo's Wii U.  Unlike all the other studios who are apparently avoiding it, SEGA is planning seven releases for the Wii U.


Darryn Bonthuys

The top ten most ridiculous retro video game ads

May 3, 2013 at 3:30 pm | 15 Comments

Marketing a game is pretty easy these days. A mysterious package here, a bribe over there and a few teaser trailers thrown in for good measure and BAM! Job done, time to hit the bar. The thing is, gaming adverts these days are missing a certain something, a particular ingredient that has been lost over the years. I’m talking about downright tripping the light fantastic madness. Here’s ten adverts from yesteryear that downed a bottle of absinthe and then had some crystal meth for breakfast.


Geoffrey Tim

Aliens suit is “frivolous” and “without merit”

May 3, 2013 at 12:00 pm | 17 Comments

As we told you yesterday, SEGA and Gearbox are set to find themselves in court over a class-action suit that claims they misrepresented the game, and ended up delivering a product that was substantially worse than the one advertised. This isn’t a bold claim; it’s plain and simple fact. Still, the defendants claim the suit is “frivolous.”


Darryn Bonthuys

Aliens: Colonial Marines is being sued

May 2, 2013 at 1:00 pm | 37 Comments

Are you still angry about Aliens Colonial Marines not living up to expectations or agreed gameplay footage? Well good news then, because I can help YOU get back at Gearbox and Sega for that travesty. It’s time to get your legal pants on, because we’ve got a lawsuit to file!


Darryn Bonthuys

Check out the Sega console that never was

April 19, 2013 at 9:45 am | 30 Comments

What happens when we fall down games industry? We get right back up? Stuff you, you’re fired and I just murdered your puppies! The industry today is pretty unforgiving. Make one wrong move, and you’re out the door. But a couple of years ago, experimentation was welcomed. Especially with Sega, before they started to smell worse than the Virtual Boy 3D.


Gavin Mannion

Aliens: Colonial Marines on the Wii-U has been delayed

April 4, 2013 at 12:00 pm | 10 Comments

You hear that? It’s the feint cries of happiness of all the Nintendo Wii-U owners waking up to find out that the seriously sub-standard Aliens: Colonial Marines will not be landing on their device in the near future.


Darryn Bonthuys

Top ten kickass console mods

February 26, 2013 at 3:30 pm | 22 Comments

Hey, it’s not just the PC master race that has the time to rip the motherboard out of a PC tower and throw into a case of pure hipster-killing coolness. Consoles have also been on the modding scene for years now, with everything ranging from retro to current on that specific chopping block. Here’s our top ten of moulded plastic and cartridge entry ports.


Gavin Mannion

Are Gearbox and Sega going to apologise?

February 25, 2013 at 9:45 am | 22 Comments

This is getting a big rumour tag slapped on it as there is very little to back it up but wouldn’t it be cool if it were true?


Gavin Mannion

A review of Aliens: Colonial Marines reviews

February 18, 2013 at 9:00 am | 87 Comments

The big news piece last week was a bit of an odd one, instead of it being about a rumoured new game or hardware it ended up being about how absolutely awful a game was. Aliens: Colonial Marines was nearly universally panned when it was released… but some people loved it and we’re going to take a look at them now.


Geoffrey Tim

SEGA’s back in the hardware business!

February 15, 2013 at 3:30 pm | 13 Comments

Ok, no..not they’re not really – before any of you get your hopes up too much. While SEGA’s consoles; the Master system, the Mega Drive, the Saturn and my beloved Dreamcast will forever live on in memory, we likely won’t be seeing the company jump back in to the hardware race – instead, we can stare lovingly at these premium, SEGA-themed laptops.


Geoffrey Tim

Aliens: Colonial Marines was sold on lies

February 14, 2013 at 1:00 pm | 42 Comments

Aliens: Colonial Marines is out – and it’s a travesty. It’s a horrible, slipshod game that was in no state to be released. Blame whoever you like; Gearbox, TimeGate Studios or publisher SEGA , but the game that people are playing is a far cry from the game that was promised. The game was sold entirely on lies – and they’re lies that came right from Gearbox president Randy Pitchford’s mouth.


Geoffrey Tim

SEGA denies Aliens Outsourcing

February 13, 2013 at 7:45 am | 33 Comments

Yesterday reviews of Gearbox’s Aliens: Colonial Marines went live (including ours) and the game is pretty much an absolute mess; poor AI, bad animation, out-dated graphics and a terrible story are just some of its failings. Some, including an ex developer, want us to believe Gearbox is absolved – because they essentially sub-contracted the game out to TimeGate Studios to handle the games multiplayer instead. Publisher SEGA says that’s nonsense.


Geoffrey Tim

Aliens: Colonial Marines review

February 12, 2013 at 11:00 am | 99 Comments

There’s probably never been a movie licence more perfectly suited to being made into a videogame than Aliens. It features great characters, a kick-ass arsenal of sci-fi weapons and some of the scariest, most phallic enemies in H.R Giger’s nightmarish Xenomorphs. It’s influence is felt in almost all modern first person shooters; games like Halo probably wouldn’t exist were it not for Aliens. With a competent studio like Gearbox on board, and the blessing of 20th Century Fox to make a canonical game, we were expecting something that would help us relive our glorious memories of Aliens vs. Predator. How then, did it go so very wrong?


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.

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