If you were wandering through Melbourne on Saturday, you might have been pickpocketed by a hooded assassin, noticed an unusual amount of plumbers in red and green, or heard the disturbing hiss of a Creeper. Characters from video games were spotted all over the city, but they were concentrated in Federation...

Dragon’s Dogma treads the fine line between single and online multiplayer in the most original and different way that an Action RPG can. Sitting down with director Hideaki Itsuno, it is impossible not to like him. He’s energetic, super animated, and obviously in love with his job. And why...

Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat just recently seen a release on consoles, marking the retail debut for the franchise while bundling in a ton of content for gamers to sink their teeth into. Carlos Giffoni, the Creative Director from 345 Games recently participated in an interview with yours truly to go...

Today the team at Capsule Computers were lucky enough to attend the Sydney launch of the brand new remote control toy from Parrot. The AR.Drone 2.0 uses HD cameras to create an augmented reality play experience that can be controlled from your own personal smartphone. We had a chance to fly around the...

At a secret location earlier this week, Capsule Computers were given the opportunity to play through the upcoming Darksiders 2 video game, featuring Death – One of the four horsemen. Unlike most game sequels, Darksiders 2 runs parallel to the first game and may even cross over at certain points. Even...

Gabe Amatangelo is the lead PvP designer of Bioware’s online hit Star Wars: The Old Republic. With the Australian and Oceanic official release of the critically acclaimed MMORPG, a few very lucky members of the Capsule Computers team had the opportunity to meet with Gabe at a media launch event in...

At a media event held in Sydney, us here at Capsule Computers were able to secure an interview with Jarrad Trudgon and Joe Donahue about the upcoming Mass Effect Infiltrator for the Apple iOS devices. Mass Effect Infiltrator is a parallel story to Mass Effect 3, taking place at the same time as the events...

Robyn Théberge is the Associate Project Manager for Mass Effect 3, the third main title in the Mass Effect saga appearing on the PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. Us here at Capsule Computers were fortunate enough to have scored a private interview with this lovely lady, who had flown all the way over from...

Prototype 2 is sure set to be one heck of an epic action-packed title. Featuring a compelling story, an engaging sandbox world, beautiful gore, devastating destructive powers and seemingness infinite possibilities thanks to design that allows plenty of freedom, Prototype 2 is exceeding expectations and is...

Earlier this month we headed over to Capcom’s Ultimate Capcom Showcase to try out a few of their upcoming titles, including Asura’s Wrath, Street Fighter x Tekken, Marvel vs Capcom 3 (Vita) and of course Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City. While we attended the event, I was lucky enough to...

This week EA teamed up with Red Bull to host a media-exclusive SSX preview event at the Red Bull Sydney Headquarters. To promote the game and to help convey the awesomeness of extreme sports such as snowboarding, two Australian extreme sport superstars attended the event: BMX racing legend Luke Madill and...

For those who don’t know, Seth Killian is a legend in the fighting game community. Some know him for his commentary, some know him as Capcom’s Special Combat Advisor, some know him for his work in community management, but most know him as Seth – the dude who had a Street Fighter IV boss...

Dustforce, a fast-paced, skill-based platformer from Hitbox Team, was released January 17th on Steam, and has been well received by the gaming community. With it’s beautiful and unique art style and awesome original soundtrack, our review of the title, along with many others across the web, gave...

On the 19th of January, Capsule Computers headed out to Insert Coin(s) to check out an exclusive hands on preview of 2K’s The Darkness II. While we were there we had a quick catch up with the game’s producer,  Seth Olshfski. Check out the interview below! After this interview took place, we had...

People keeping a close eye on sites like IndieDB will no doubt have come across King Arthur’s Gold, a retro platformer with a menagerie of game modes and features that already boasts a considerable following among the indie community. If reputations are anything to go on, then KAG is set to become...

We got a chance to have a chat with managing and PR director of DMD Enterprise Ltd: Michael Dziwniel, the developers behind Uprising44: The Silent Shadows, a new TPP/RTS game set for release in mid-2012. Check out our previous article on the game HERE, and check out the interview below! There have been a...

We got a chance to have a chat with Ian Frazier, the lead developer behind Reckoning: Kingdoms of Amalur. Donning a Reckoning shirt and speaking with a real sense of pride about the game, its clear that what we have here is a labour of love which made sitting down with Ian a real pleasure. His excitement...

According to ‘Jiggsy‘ Electronic Arts Sydney’s Need For Speed: The Run Community Manager, the Need for Speed franchise is about three things: hot cars, hot women and hot music. Tonight EA surely brought it all with an exclusive hands-on preview event, featuring popular DJ’s,...

The first thing I noticed was the moustache. As I tried to remember whether Doc Brown had had a moustache in Back to the Future, I realised it wasn’t part of the costume – this guy simply had an epic mo of his own. Calling himself “Doc Braun”, this very enthusiastic fan has built his own...

Released just over a week ago and already receiving much praise for its original art direction and unique take on survival shooter gameplay, “The Haunted: Hell’s Reach” is stirring things up for the whole zombie game genre. The project and its team are a force to be reckoned with. Excited...

GAME On festival this year was nothing but sheer fun! I met a variety of awesome indie video game developers the first of which was Stephen Barnes and Rebecca Fernandez Convict Interactive. Rebecca was kind enough to gives us a an in-depth run through of their punisher-platformer Triangle Man. The title has...

Independent developers are increasingly demonstrating their importance to the video game industry, and often outperform the big boys in creativity and innovation. With the Australian industry in the state it’s in, indy devs are arguably more important than ever here. At the Armageddon expo in...

During my many adventures during the Armageddon Expo in Melbourne last weekend I had the great pleasure to listen to some of the musical covers from the band Technodrome.  Doing video game music covers from Pokemon, Zelda and of course everyones favourite the Mario theme. We sat down with the guitarist...

Eureka and Warehouse 13 fans this is for you! Master Abbott, Darren, Linkage and I (Jess B) got a chance to sit down with Eureka and Warehouse 13 stars Eddie McClintock and Colin Ferguson and ask them a few questions. It kicked off with Eddie McClintock’s first Vegemite experience (unfortunately not...

Turtle Beach has long been known in the gaming industry as a brand for reliable and quality gaming headsets. This year at EB EXPO, when we saw Turtle Beach had a stand, we couldn’t wait to get over there and speak to the team and see the latest products slated for release. The absolute highlight of the...

It’s safe to say that when many people saw the schedule for EB EXPO 2011, one of the events that immediately leaped out from the page was the EA Special Presentation with Chief Operating Officer, Peter Moore, and Lars Gustavsson and Daniel Matros from DICE. The team from EA didn’t disappoint, with a...