The video game industry needs more Tim Schafers. His games, including Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, and the recent Sesame Street Kinect game Once Upon A Monster, have all been ingenious gems, full of character, humour, and interesting twists on game mechanics. His brand of...

Finally some news for all you irate and frustrated parents, especially around Australia, in that Activision have announced a new wave of Skylander characters soon to be released upon the market, ready for you to Zap them up like salivating demons. For anyone who has been living under a rock the past few...

All you fans of our fab little French hero Rayman can give a little smile as Ubisoft have unveiled a new trailer for Rayman 3 HD, coming this March for XBox 360 and Playstation 3. The sheer amount of adventures this little guy goes on, all without arms and legs is amazing, and his return in HD shuld get all...

Muchdifferent have set a new official Guinness World Record with their game Man Vs Machine, as 999 players battled through lag-free on a single multi-player map, more than doubling Sony’s previous record. While the Men dominated play early on, the servers eventually crashed under the pressure of so...

Sharpen your swords and get yourself ready for some more EPIC battles, as Sega of Europe and America have announced a release date of 23rd March for the much anticipated Total War: Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai. The stand alone expansion pack to the exceptionally popular Total War: Shogun 2, will add new...

I’m usually pretty slow to get into things. I’ll dip my toe in, take a few tentative steps and test the water, but if I’m not grabbed soon enough, I’ll get out of the proverbial (or literal) pool, dry off and go find something else. In the case of indie games, I fell asleep in a chair next to the...

The landscape of portable gaming is going through a change. The mobile market seems to be growing thanks to the advent of Apple’s iPhone and iPad. This brought a new smartphone and tablet market which is gaining steam. With that in mind, media and consumers have proclaimed the doom of the dedicated...

Any fan of the Assassins Creed franchise will be pleased to know that Ubisoft have debuted a new “Mediterranean Travellers Pack” for Assassins Creed Revelations, available now through the XBox Live Marketplace and PSN, as well as Steam for all you PC users. The new pack further enhances an...

Being the Father of a 2 year old, I have seen the power of childrens entertainment first hand, so its great so see it being used for further educational purposes as well as having the amazingly lifesaving ability to keep her quiet. They dont come much more powerful than the Wiggles when it comes to...

Toshiba have given their Australian lineup of tablets and notebooks a nice revamp, unveiling some sleek looking new hardware, with the stars of the attraction being the Toshiba tablet AT200, and the Toshiba Satellite U840 Notebook. The AT200 seems to be the epitomy of ultra light portability. It weighs in...

Puzzle fans, get excited, as Konami have graced us with some new screenshots and North American release dates for the awesome looking and exceptionally innovative “Puddle”, coming to XBox Live Arcade on 25th January and shortly after on the 31st for Playstation users. The new screenshots give a...

Boss Battles are right up there with jumping, points and blank wooden crates as examples of standard video game procedure. They’re in pretty much everything, and ideally test a player’s skills and abilities that they’ve accumulated during the game, as well as ramping up the tension in both...

Get those trigger fingers ready, but not for Battlefield 3, this time its a little more innocent, as EA announce Fly With Me, soon to perch on the iTunes App. store. Assist the birds through a multitude of hazardous levels, as you tap the screen to keep the birds flapping, avoiding obstacles as you catch...

Just as the Australian Open is set to fire up, EA have released a new trailer for the upcoming Grand Slam Tennis 2, showcasing the famous Rod Laver arena in Melbourne as well as many of tennis’ huge attractions. Featuring all the sports big guns such as Federer and Nadal, the trailer gives a small...

I just love it when people who have so much money they could use it as toilet paper get involved on issues relating to piracy and all the money these poor underpaid stars are losing when someone downloads their precious movies. Dont get me wrong, I agree on principle, I just wouldnt bother wasting my money...

Following up from news a few days go, 2K games have released some new screenshots for the upcoming XCOM: Enemy Unknown, being developed by Firaxis of Civilization fame. Originally released in 1993, the XCOM franchise has had its ups and downs with many reputable polls placing the original instalment in the...

Feeling a bit angry with the world and looking to blow off some steam, then look no further as Capcom have announced the release of the demo for Asura’s Wrath, downloadable from both the Playstation Network and Xbox Live now. Asura’s Wrath introduces a unique range of brutal techniques within...

Have you ever dreamed of being a journalist, spending your time hot on the heels of the latest celebrity or Royal scandal as you try and gain that elusive photo. Well, dream no more, as French publisher Anuman Interactive have announced its first game for the new year: The Princess Case – A Royal...

Starting up a new game can sometimes be difficult, especially if the genre in one in which players may not have a high degree of familiarity with. I myself will admit to not being the world’s greatest MMORPG aficionado, any many aspects of the game I’m still learning the ropes of, even with a few...

While the Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 still have a lot left in them, the companies behind them are already developing their next generation of video game platforms. After the feats of the current generation of consoles, it’s both difficult and exciting to imagine what’s next for video games. The PS Vita...

…and so Peter set out on his noble quest to inform all the Capsule Computers readers about indie games, the best and the worst, the things you didn’t know, and much more. As someone who has worked in video game journalism for almost three years now, starting with humble independant work at the...

Whatever happened to money? In the 1999 film Entrapment, Sean Connery played the male protagonist Mac. Being an old-school thief, when he and his partner Gin, played by Catherine Zeta-Jones, successfully infiltrated a bank vault and he saw that there was a computer terminal instead of gold bars or columns...

After no word whatsoever about the Wii U all year, we have just recently learned about a launch window for Nintendo’s upcoming console that is sure to take the world by storm. Well, that’s nice and all, but like many of you, I am more intrigued about the software the Wii U will boast at launch....

As 2011 slowly comes to an end, we reflect on the great year of gaming it has been. A brand new year is set to begin just over the horizon, and with it comes a slew of great games set to be released not to long from now. So gear up and jump on board the hype wagon as we take a look at 12 of 2012’s most...

You love your laptop. You take it virtually everywhere with you. You work with it, play games on it, and live out your social media life through it. Unfortunately, it can only give you an average 8 hours of standard battery life (more likely 4 hours if you use it for gaming) before you need to hunt for the...

Letter from Gon, episode 13 of the Hunter X Hunter 2011 series, ended up being a recap episode told by way of Mito-san reading a letter from an excited Gon who managed to pass the third phase of the hunter exam. In all honesty, when I read the comments below the video that it was a recap episode, I was...