Call of Duty Elite everthing you need to know

Call of Duty Elite Will I have to subscribe to Elite in order to play Call of Duty online? No. "It's worth repeating," said Berger during the reveal event, "Call of Duty does not and will not charge for multiplayer – that is our continued commitment to our players." Berger also reiterated the fact that some elements of Elite will be free to Modern...

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Project Cafe, Specs Leaked..Again.

The hardware specs for Nintendo's Project Cafe have apparently leaked. The new system will house a custom AMD RV770 graphics chip (4850/70) and a Custom IBM Power 6 Chip (Codename Fox), Quad Core 3.5Ghz 512MB XDR2 DRAM (Main), 1024 GDDR5 VRAM (Video), 16MB eDRAMand and either 250GB or 320GB for storage.Yeah i hear the non geeks saying "I have no idea...

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Andoran: Prologue, A mod for The Elder Scrolls IV

  Andoran: PrologueNon-commercial non-linear open world RPG Peculiarities of the project: Freedom On Andoran one can do what crosses his mind and become anything he wishes: from a smith to a knight, from a pearl diver to a vampire, lurking in the night, from a killer to a diplomat, who won’t deal with armor during the whole game and...

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Dead Island 20 mins of gameplay

The first sustained video of Dead Island gameplay has arrived - showing 20 mins of sustained in-game action.The footage displays various characters traversing the game's tropical locales from a first-person perspective - whacking plenty of the undead in the skull along the way. Think Borderlands meets Left4Dead and you're some way there. Check it...

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Gears Of War 3 campaign video is hot stuff

Microsoft showed off its Gears Of War 3 world premiere ad last night during the Champions League final - and you can watch it below. Marcus's father makes an unexpected appearance to kick off proceedings, and then there's a cavalcade of guns, gruesome enemies and, naturally, grisly encounters. The whole thing features plenty of in-game footage from...

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7 things Sony must do to win E3

The biggest event of the gaming year is nearly upon us and, amidst all the anticipation, announcements and earth-shattering surprises, we'll (hopefully) see the three console platform holders go head to head.It's a chance for each to shift the tides of expectation and turn eyes to their own box in a massive push for attention. That's why Sony,...

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Star Wars Kinect to be unveiled at E3

Geoff Keighley has tweeted some exciting news for Kinect owners: Yes, Star Wars for Kinect will officially be unveiled live during the Xbox 360 E3 briefing on Spike. Tune in on June 6 for more. Yeah, but will it be better than this PC Kinect homebrew app?...

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first InFamous 2 review is a 9/10

The world's first InFamous 2 review has arrived courtesy of IGN - and the site's scored the game at 9/10.Critic Colin Moriarty reports that Sony's sequel "looks great and runs well, and the animations are fluid", adding that you can "expect to spend 20 hours beating Infamous 2; twice that much if you want to do everything again".Although the game's...

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Futuremark Tease Three Games, Maybe

Futuremark Games Studio, whose last outing was the well-received by largely unplayed Shattered Horizon, have announced that they are making three new MYSTERY games. They tell us: “you can tag this under PC, XBLA and iOS. We will leave it to your readers to guess which platforms apply to each game (there are only 343 possible combinations).”Hmm!...

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Microsoft will demo a tablet OS next week

POLISHER OF WINDOWS Microsoft is set to preview a version of its Windows operating system next week that it claims doesn't look like a complete dogs dinner on tablets.Until now Windows-based tablets have been as pleasant to look at as a motorway accident and have generated similar feelings of revulsion in users. Yet the the company seems to have...

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Leaked AMD roadmap reveals Desna APU, bona fide tablet strategy

What's a chip maker to do after successfully hawking five million of its Fusion APUs? Why, expand the line, of course! A leaked slide deck from within the lairs of AMD is showing off quite a bit of the company's upcoming roadmap, and while a good deal of it has already been made public in one way or another, there's one term that's causing all...

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Kojima Planning Something Big for Metal Gear's 25-Year Anniversary

2012 will mark 25 years since the first Metal Gear was released.Hideo Kojima was recently upset recently over, causing speculation that it had to do with a game cancellation. We still don't know what he was referring to when he said, "What I prepared minutely spending a year became meaningless," but he did clear up some other matters up on a new...

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PS4 rumours: what you need to know about the PlayStation 4

In Depth: PlayStation 4 release date, specs and other speculation PS4 rumours are slowly gathering pace When it comes to rumours about the next Xbox, there's some wild speculation to get your teeth into. Over on the PlayStation 4 rumour mill, things were, until recently, turning much slower. As...

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First Review of Ocarina 3D

The very first review of Ocarina of Time 3D is now in and it was posted in the German edition of GamePro magazine. The review had only good things to say about the game, touching on the graphics, sound, and gameplay. The final score for the game was a 93%, which is already lining it up to be the best reviewed game for the Nintendo 3DS. To date...

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Controlling the Breath of a God with From Dust

Being a god in Ubisoft's From Dust ain't easy. Though you can manipulate the elements of this world, you'll sometimes feel less like an all-powerful deity than you might a hopeful local politician, a cog in a powerful, sluggish, bureaucratic machine. You may feel as powerful as a child on a beach, building a sand castle against the unstoppable...

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Modern Warfare 3's Survival Mode exposed, detailed

Modern Warfare 3's rumoured Survival Mode has been confirmed and detailed, via a report in USA Today. The mode, which comes as part of the new game's updated Spec-Ops suite, has players competing against increasingly difficult waves of enemies (in the Horde/Firefight fashion) across Modern Warfare 3's multiplayer maps. USA Today teamed up with...

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New Battlefield 3 gameplay in behind the scenes movie

EA's launched a new Battlefield 3 behind the scenes movie filmed at developer DICE's studio in Sweden.As well as exclusive new footage from the upcoming FPS, there are interviews with key team members including the game's creative director, lead weapons designer and audio director, plus a look back over the history of the Battlefield series.Earlier...

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Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB review

With the Sapphire Radeon HD 6950, we're getting into serious graphics card territory here, and inevitably that means serious money too. At over £200 that's a lot to spend on a single component if you're talking about an upgrade purchase. But it's AMD's latest, and arguably greatest, GPU technology inside that Cayman processor and it's got some...

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How Nintendo can win E3 2011

Alright, chuckles; before you chime in with a "they can't" and scuttle back off to calculating how many days it is before you hit your next Prestige rank, maybe you should remember the Wii is the biggest selling console this generation. If past performance is any indication, it's never wise to bet against Nintendo - unless you did with the Virtual...

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