In the visual world of video games sound is often an overlooked element – but there’s no denying that it’s absolutely critical to the atmosphere and emotion of a game – something that isn’t lost on Mass Effect 3 developers Bioware. Bioware games are, of course, all about the...

Remember Renegade Ops? That rather awesome twin stick shooter that released on PC, PSN and XBLA? Well you should, because it was fantastic. Released by SEGA and boasting the same game engine as big brother game Just Cause, Renegade Ops provided a decent chunk of explosive heavy action, and gained a highly...

It seems that our Australian friends will not have a chance to try out Starbreeze’s take on the Bullfrog property Syndicate. The reason for this is because the ratings board for Australia has been refused classification which means that it has been banned from being sold in stores altogether. You can...

… With Battlefield 3 in the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) area. These tournaments are found on the Alienware Arena website, and are labelled as battleground tournaments. The first ever battleground tournament will be Battlefield 3, but there are plans to incorporate other games into the program in...

While Star Wars: The Old Republic has been heralded as the next big MMO for gamers to go to, it appears that just a few too many are going into the MMO for the servers to handle. In fact, so many people are playing that nearly everyone who wants to sign in and play their character has to wait in a queue...

Sick of defending that same old boring castle? You should go outside and play more!  Trendy Entertainment, Reverb Publishing, and D3Publisher are about to unleash the first part DLC for their exceedingly addictive downloadable title, Dungeon Defenders where players will be able to venture outside of their...

If you ever wanted to be a gangster, walk around in million dollar suits with flagrant disregard for the law, but don’t like the appeal of spending 20 years behind bars, look no further as Rockstar Games are answering your call. As part of a twitter promotion, Rockstar are giving 8 lucky people the...

Youtube sensation FreddieW, known for his action packed video game adaptations videos of franchises such as Call of Duty, uploaded a video yesterday announcing that EA had approached him about making a commercial for the game. FreddieW and his team combined forces with Corridor Digital and made a hilarious...

Amongst the many contests that Blizzard has provided over this past year, they are welcoming applicants for the Holiday Dessert Contest. The rules are fairly simple – create a dessert with the theme of Diablo, Warcraft, or StarCraft. Once the masterpiece is completed take a picture of the Blizzard...

Popular young adult (or tween, as all the cool kids say) female game, School 26 has made the transfer over from the iOS market to the PC, as well as the Android. School 26 was the first release from the Silicon Sisters (the first Canadian female owned and operated video game studio – girl power!), and the...

While most games may hold you to playing as only one class of character, being a hybrid fighter is sometimes the funnest option. In Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning you will have the ability to do just that. Rather than lock the player into one specific fighting set, the title will allow the player to do...

Let’s be honest here, for a series that is all about giant robots fighting each other, the Transformers series haven’t really received a good video game and I suppose Michael Bay’s Transformers movies and their rushed video game adaptions are to blame. But looking past this, High Moon...

Codemasters have announced that an action packed extension of the DiRT series is coming, perhaps with a vengeance, as things have gone all shunt-y. It will debut May 2012 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, and looks to take the Gymkhana spin-off for the series one step further with destruction...

PC gamers, have you missed defending the earth from giant bugs while all the other platforms out there made heroes of themselves? Well be disappointed no more! Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon has just arrived on Steam for Windows. To make up for the fact that every other platform has had the game for...

Bust-n-Rush Developer: Techtonic Games Publisher: Techtonic Games Platform: PC (reviewed), Mac Release Date: December 15, 2011 Price: $7.99 (buy here) Overview Bust-n-Rush is the first game from Santa Barbara studio Techtonic Games. The first game. And for that, it is seriously impressive. At the most...

Sitting around with nothing to do and want to win a nice gift for yourself? Well, your in luck as PopCap have launched a new game on their Facebook page by the name of Prize Plunger. This little romp lets players take control of the Yeti Zombie and use their powerful plunger to pull up a prize. prizes...

Like with most MMORPGs that fail to have an official Oceanic server list, players of The Old Republic have chosen to congregate on a select few servers based on which had the largest proportion of guilds deployed to them. So far there are four unofficial Australian servers in the game, one for Role-Playing,...

The upcoming shooter remake of the Bullfrog classic Syndicate, developed by Starbreeze Studios, delves into the futuristic world of 2069 where super Mega-Corporations rule over the world. The normal civilians in this world have chips installed in their heads, while covert agents have modified chips for...

… by Bioware and EA games. This is good news for all players of the MMORPG set in the Star Wars universe because it essentially means that for those of us who have ordered the game online and have to wait for shipping, we are able to use our early access keys to continue playing the game up until the...

Now before you say anything about that title being misleading, just think for one second… 10 million copies of Skyrim are now in the wild and each contains the ability to create an infinite amount of dragons. Just try and stop 10 million infinite dragons… Now in all seriousness, Zenimax, parent...

Those venturing into the frozen land of Skyrim today on the Xbox 360 will be introduced to the 1.3 version of the game as Bethesda has released the newest patch for the title. In this patch we will see a number of updates to the game, including fixes to the older patch of the title such as the backwards...

Thanks to votes from its fans, Mass Effect 3 recently won the Most Anticipated Game award at the Spike Video Game Awards, and to thank the community support, Bioware have released an all new screenshot of the game, featuring Ashley Williams in her shiny, new Spectre armour (above). Prior to the release of...

EA Games has announced a brand new game in the Command & Conquer Tiberium universe, Tiberium Alliances. The free-to-play game will put players in a massively multiplayer online strategy setting, from which they can form strategic alliances, and battle against other players and hordes of mutant enemies....

Good news for all of Spyro’s fanbase, the recent Skylanders entry to the universe, Skylanders Universe, has entered Beta. For those who don’t know, Beta is a testing phase that games undergo during devlopment to test features and debug a game. This indicates that the game may be close to...

Who hasn’t played Syberia yet? As someone who knocked out the first and second, and is sad about the apparent lack of a third, I have to say that Anuman Interactive’s deal with Big Fish Games to redistribute the first Syberia on PC and iOS is something that I am quite keen on. The original Syberia was...

Well, it seems like Infinity Ward really doesn’t want anyone cheating or even performing various bad things in Modern Warfare 3. You know… besides shooting each other. Infinity Ward has recently revealed, as discovered by MP1st, that they have been recently levying 5000 day long bans against...