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I don’t normally spend much time playing iPhone games, I use my iPhone much more for business than pelasure. However I was at SXSWi 2011 and stumbled across the Traveller-AR iPhone MMORPG. This amazing game is going to bring a true (WoW) style space MMORPG to the iPhone, which in itself is an amazing feat, however there is a lot more to this game than first meets the eye.

The first thing is Traveller-AR is based on the pen and paper roleplaying game from the 1970′s.  Since then it has had four decades… Continue Reading»

DSi XL Review

The DSi XL is the latest DS console to hit the market, and while it does provide a 93% bigger screen, some people are asking why Nintendo didn’t give us all just a little bit more.

But first off, the DSi XL is compatible with all DS Games and DSi Games. This means that it can play a huge number of games already, and on it’s larger… Continue Reading»

The Sony PSP Go has been on the lips of handheld addicts for several months now, today however we got our hands on review of the latest Sony Handheld Console.

First off, Sony revised their larger screen approach, dropping it’s widescreen size from 4.3 inches to 3.8 inches.  This screen size change may make the device more portable, but some worry that it will affect it’s video viewing capability.

The new PSP is much smaller, and 43% lighter than it’s previous incantations.  This makes the device much more portable, yet it holds… Continue Reading»

Plenty of us will remember that classic musical film ‘Grease’.

This film came out in 1978, over 30 years ago, and yet Nintendo have announced that they will be releasing Grease the Game for Nintendo Wii’s the world over.

While they have not released any demo’s to us yet, we have been told it will be a musical, dancing spectacular.

With Grease you will be able to sing along, while being stood next to the stars of the film.  The on screen you will be managed by the Wii’s movement detection system… Continue Reading»

Many games released for the iPhone have unfortunately been same old same old adiditions, swanky remakes of old cassics with better graphics more than anything new or innovative.

Apple however have today announced that the popular Brothers in Arms series have released a 3D World War 2 First Person Shooter game for the iPhone and iPod touch!

This fantastic World war 2 FPS gives the users a huge range of weapons, several vehicles you can steal and control, 13 missions and intuative controls to… Continue Reading»

The Microsoft XBox 360 is set to drop its prices yet again to $299, thats £150 to us poms. This Xbox 360 price drop is yet another snub to Sony’s Playstation 3 which is still hideously expensive and is losing a huge amount of market share to gamers.

It seems that the new Xbox 360 price drop could be a real danger to Sony’s dominance brought in by the Playstation 2, unfortunately it seems Sony have not learnt from previous success, and Microsoft has learnt from… Continue Reading»

We recently noted how Microsoft’s XBox Live community had a player rankings system built into its online community, full with roaming controller configurations and so on.

Sony have announced today that they will be releasing a new hardware upgrade v2.40 for the Playstation 3 to keep up with this, pretty good, idea.  Patch 2.4 is primarily allowing access to a PlayStation 3 online database of player information, friends lists custom game settings and game rankings.  The full list of released upgrades is as follows,

• Friend category
• View, send, receive messages via your Playstation 3
• Manage downloads
• Set the vibration feature of the PS3 controller
• Sign in