The ESA, The organisation behind E3 are reportedly making an announcement today to reveal their plans to downsize E3 only for the press. GameSpot’s Curt Feldman writes:
One reason behind the downsizing of the show can be attributed to the dollar cost of the event to exhibitors, including the demands on companies to assign large numbers […]

A short video has recently been released showing off more of the impressive visuals we can expect to see in Crytek’s highly anticipated first person shooter - Crysis.
And it would seem that tree-felling with miniguns (predator style) is now just another way that game environments mimick the real world.

Microsoft Game Studios have posted up the official Gears Of War Fan Site Kit, the "first of many tools to combat the impending Locust Horde". From the site:
The 102 MB download contains all the means necessary to help Gears of War troopers build a fansite in preparation for Emergence Day. The kit contains concept […]

Nintendo are releasing a web browser for its hugely popular DS handheld console. It has already been released in Japan, but a localised European version is set for release on the 6th of October.
This browser is actually a version of the ubiquitous Opera web browser, developed in Norway, which is also available on […]

There has finally been some good news for users of Xbox live market place. In the last few weeks some desperately needed new games have arrived, with more to come in the following weeks.
The games have been released for download on Wednesdays, which comes at a nice time of the week after […]

Good news this week for fans of first person shooters. Valve have announced an enhanced version of Half-Life 2 for the 360, improving, at least visually, on the Xbox version. But even better is the announcement of Episodes 1 and 2, the expansion packs for Half-life 2, along with Counter Strike Source and […]

Blizzard has announced that they’ve banned a staggering 59,000 World of Warcraft accounts in June and "removed well over 22 million gold from the total economy across all realms".
The accounts were banned for using cheats and scripts, such as those used for gold farming. Blizzard said on the official site:
“While we regret having […]

Nintendo have done more than a few things right with their DS system. One of them is making all the games "region free", allowing you to buy them from anywhere in the world.
In a recent talk with IGN, Perrin Kaplan, vice president of marketing and corporate communications in America, dropped a hint that the Wii […]

Oh dear, The administrator of the Crysis-Online Forums has posted up what he believes will be the minimum and recommended system requirements of Crysis….and for those of you with an average PC things aren’t looking too good for Mr Wallet.
Minimum Requirements
CPU: Athlon 64 3000+/Intel 2.8ghzGraphics: Nvidia 6600/X800GTO (SM 2.0)RAM: 768Mb/1Gb on Windows VistaHDD: 6GBInternet: […]

I stumbled across an opinion piece earlier that reckons we’re less able at sport than the non-gaming types simply because we play video games.
This is of course perfectly reasonable. Spending 75% of our free time in front of our PC or favourite game console can’t be too heatlhy, when nature orginally intended us […]