Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II Publisher: Sega Developer: Sonic Team Platforms: Xbox 360 (Reviewed), PlayStation 3, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, PC Release Date: 15/05/2012 Price: 1200 Microsoft Points Overview: Making Sonic the Hedgehog 4 an episodic game was a pretty peculiar move, and when the first...

A special promotion for Xbox Live games has just hit the Windows Phone Marketplace, where seven Windows Phone titles are going for an absolute bargain for just 99 cents each. These titles include a mix of single player and multiplayer experiences, including the highly popular Angry Birds. The list of games...

The Consumerist holds an annual poll every year to decide who the worst company in America is.  This year EA was included in the nomination process.  And this year it also ‘won’ the title of ‘The Worst Company in America.’ Their prize was a Golden Poo. To get the title, EA had to...

Carrying several pens and and a stylus is so yesterday with Incipio’s new Inscribe DUAL Stylus and Pen. The Inscribe packs a black balled tip stylus compatible with your capacitive touch smartphone and tablet plus a black and red 0.7mm ball point pen all in one professional looking body you can carry...

Today Microsoft hosted a Spring Showcase, featuring many new video game titles that will playable in the coming year.  Original titles were revealed for PC, Kinect, Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7.  However, they also revealed interesting details for many games we already knew were coming out, such as the...

Cave Company can’t seem to stop pumping out new DoDonPachi titles. The popular shooter franchise is getting quite the attention in 2012 with several new releases across several platforms, which include the arcade, Xbox 360, iOS, and now the Windows Phone 7. Instead of just porting the iOS title,...

Plants vs. Zombies Publisher: PopCap Games Developer: PopCap Games Release Date: February 22, 2012 Price: $14.99 Overview: If anyone were to mention the game Plants vs. Zombies to someone else, they would likely not have to explain a single thing about the game itself. You see, PopCap’s unique home...

Windows 7 users with a penchant for word puzzles are in for a treat, with M80Games releasing a new, addictive, arcade style word game with a twist. You have to find words in any directions for points, with the goal of chaining them together to create a combo for awesome points. Plus, if you go through it...

New Years Eve is vastly approaching and now you can party like it’s 1993 with Sonic CD. The original Sega game, which saw the return of Dr. Eggman trying to take control of time by stealing the Time Stones from Little Planet will very soon be available across multiple platforms. With your help Sonic can...

For as long as videogames have been around, gamers everywhere have been tasked with the eradication of many evils. Some are invaders from space, while others are soldiers from within our realm. Why is it then that the wildlife in many games are all so very vicious? Maybe it’s because, as gamers, we...

People play video games on phones other than the Droid and the iPhone. Yes, we know its crazy, but ’tis truth! And those are the games that will now be rated by the ESRB. AT&T Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular and Verizon Wireless have all agreed to use the ESRB rating system for their...

Karkadann Games have released details on their fighting game based around Filipino star, Manny Pacquaio: Pound for Pound Volume 1. You control Manny as he searches for his lost friend in a long story that leads him into underground fighting pits and who knows where else. You carry out his infamous...

Sonic isn’t one for keeping release dates. After Sonic Generations breaking out a day early yesterday thanks to EB Games Australia, Sega of America have announced that the speedy blue one has ‘outrun his own re-release date’ for Sonic CD. The game isn’t due for release until...

Dragons Vs Unicorns, the intensely cute multiplayer tower defence game that will be the debut release for Digital Harmony Games, has revealed the first minions for the game along with some screenshots. While Dragons and Unicorns duke it out, minions are animals that have been dragged into the war and the...

So here is another culprit with the iPhone 4S, another one bites the dust. As someone who doesn’t really hold any allegiances to either Apple or Android and has owned both, I can’t conclusively say I prefer one or the other. They essentially both do the same things I need, and it is just a...

It seems that Windows Phone 7 owners may be able to get a bit of an advantage from now on in Halo: Reach. Joystiq reports that during this weekend’s New York Comic Con, 343 Industries revealed that they will be releasing a new update to the Windows Phone 7 version of Halo Waypoint which will provide a...

The original Max Payne was a ground breaking third-person shooter released in 2001, sporting a stylish presentation and engaging story, making Mr Payne one of the action genre’s first multi-dimensional characters in video game history, as well as helping of popularizing the idea of...

Over the years, the Indie Game scene have been through more than a few platforms; a lot of which still exist in one form or another today, but most of which are only used by the most hardcore of old school code monkeys. Nowadays, most independent studios use one of a handful of platforms. The most notable of...

Sega has continued to show their support for bringing back old Sonic titles by announcing that they will be releasing, or rather re-releasing Sonic CD on nearly every playable platform that there is available at this moment in time. Sonic CD will be available “late” this year on the PSN, PC, all...

On the afternoon of September 15, a Business Day during TGS, the Asia Game Business Summit will be held. What is the Asia Business Games Summit you say? Only in its second year, five top executives of game companies from China, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan hold a discussion panel. The theme this year is:...

Ubisoft have released a demo walkthrough video at Gamescom, showing off gameplay footage of an older, injured Ezio playing through a memory. The footage shows the classic features from the series in addition to insight into some of the newer ones. We get to see old-man Ezio as he limps through a portion...

When Microsoft announced that its next phone would have Xbox Live compatibility, everyone was excited. Now however, a few months after its releases, they are smoothing the rough edges and making the entire experience much more enjoyable, in addition to announcing that they are adding quite a few new games...

Predicting a severe increase in price for licensing fees, costs and, apparently, postage, Netflix is splitting its unlimited streaming plan from its unlimited DVD plan. The new plan will go into effect for new users right now and for pre-existing users on September 1st or thereabouts.  Basically, to stream...

The iPod Touch had the right idea. Or at least the right name. It was all about touch. I feel that the more Apple develop, the further they get away from the haptic nature that the technology first utilised ever so well. At least in gaming. Sure, swiping, tilting and whatever else the game might ask you to...

Editor-in-Chief: MasterAbbott Another week gone…l haven’t done much gaming, but I was lucky enough to get some hands-on and play a few hours of Driver San Francisco and Call Of Juarez Cartel multiplayer over at Ubisoft offices here in Sydney.  Check out both of our previews here and here.  As always...

Let it be said that Microsoft is a company with very deep pockets and when it wants something, it will usually end up getting it. Microsoft has announced that they have entered an agreement to purchase Skype for $8.5 billion which is a very high price tag for a service that provides nearly all of its...