MCV today reported that Microsoft executive Richard Teversham has quit his position as senior director of business, insights and strategy for Xbox. He is taking a new role with rival company Apple. A Microsoft spokesman said “We can confirm that Richard Teversham, director of business, insights and strategy, has taken a new opportunity outside of [...]

I am never keen on movie and game tie ups and can probably count on one hand the amount of times I have watched an excellent action movie and then played the game and thought it equally as good. This was definitely the case with Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay on the big [...]

There are some genres of arcade games that raise their head again and again and become a variation on a theme with no real difference other than an attempt to reinvent the wheel. This I am pleased to say is not the case with the Arkanoid style breakout game on the Playstation Store from Creat [...]

With the recent court ruling against the website owners of The Pirate Bay we thought it would be a good idea to take a look at the worldwide problem that is destroying the gaming industry. Piracy has and will be with us no matter what we do, their will always be somebody trying to make [...]

Last month the UK Department for Health’s Change 4 Life campaign sparked outrage when their ad campaign pictured a child playing video games and suggested that this activity would cause an early death due to lack of movement, also the pictured child had hold of what looks to be a Playstation 3 controller. Now in [...]

Eidos have announced that the demo of their Battlestations Pacific is now available on the Xbox Marketplace. The demo includes one mission from the US campaign, Divine Winds of Leyte, which will throw the player into the thick of the action with a Kamikaze attack on a US carrier fleet. Also included are two multiplayer [...]

Worms are for the most part a gardeners best friend or if you are a Blackbird an early morning breakfast, however if you are in any way a computer or console gamer then Worms is a gaming legacy that has been around 15 years. Brought to us first back in 1994 by Team 17 on [...]

Puzzle games have come in many shapes and sizes over the decades, we’ve stacked blocks, matched colored balls and tried to coordinate shapes all in a quest to challenge our brain, but if I said I had tried to roll a rectangular block along a narrow maze to reach the exit then I would be [...]

In a landmark case the founders of the website The Pirate Bay have been found guilty by a court in Sweden and Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, Carl Lundström all have been sentenced to a year in prison. On top of this they have been ordered to pay 30m kronor (£2.4m) in damages to [...]

Many websites have been reporting about the recent news surrounding Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed 2 and many have been speculating about the content of the highly anticipated sequel. The Official Ubisoft fan site went live last week with the really cool printable images that when put in front of a webcam produced some fantastic 3D images, [...]

Sony European President David Reeves is set to retire after 15 years at the top of the Sony Playstation empire, having overseen all the Playstation console releases from the Playstation 1 through to today’s Playstation 3, Reeves will leave his post on April 30th
Reeves commented “It has been a wonderful ride with PlayStation. I never [...]

Godfather 2 is the latest game from EA’s Redwood Studios and there would be no prizes given out for guessing the aim of the game with this title. You play a character called Dominic a young family member who is the next up and coming Don who is trying to prove he has what it [...]

In the humble beginnings of my video gaming journey in 1981 I couldn’t have possibly dreamed of today’s technology, the thought of 256 colour’s was something of a pipe dream back then and today’s technology was something that only Steven Spielberg could imagine. So with the latest generation of consoles and some say the last [...]

Love it or hate it but when Infinity Ward showed the trailer for Modern Warfare 2 at GDC 09 the world wanted to know more and such is the success of the Call of Duty series that surely this is the most anticipated game of 2009. In fact so much so that in a recent [...]

As many people have read since GDC09 On-Live is a new Video game on demand service that launches in the 4th quarter of 2009 and if you are to believe the hype, revolutionise the way we play games. I have visited their website and looked at all the promotional material and to be honest I [...]