News just in that Dark Energy Digital’s highly anticipated downloadable title, Hydrophobia, will be available on 29 September as the first offering in Microsoft’s ‘Game Feast’ promotion. Much has been made of the liquid physics effects made possible by the developer’s proprietary HydroEngine, which promises to deliver the most realistic and fully realised water simulation [...]
Author Archive | Ben Griffiths (squeaky bumtime)
DJ Hero 2 To Include RZA
Activision has announced that the legendary leader of the Wu-Tang Clan, RZA, will be a playable character in the upcoming DJ Hero 2. “I’m very excited to be involved with DJ Hero 2,” says RZA, real name Robert Diggs. He adds, with a degree of repetition and inelegant scansion reminiscent of a typical Bobby Digital [...]
Why I Won’t Mind If Kane & Lynch 2 Is Thrown To The Dogs
I haven’t managed to get my hands on a copy of Dog Days yet. Time has been a precious commodity to me in recent weeks and money has been even tighter, especially after my girlfriend managed to convince me to take her to Florence for a spot of high culture this month. And whilst I [...]
BioShock: Please Fix
With series creator Ken Levine and his Irrational Games outfit back at the helm, it’s safe to say that some of us are struggling to contain our excitement at the prospect of BioShock Infinite. The solid but Levine-less BioShock 2 wasn’t a bad game by any stretch of the imagination – in fact, its much-improved [...]
Chinese Game Console Rumored
According to a report in the China Daily, Chinese PC manufacturing giant Lenovo has set its sights on developing a new gaming platform. The newspaper claims that a dedicated team of software engineers has been tasked with working on the “ebox”, which may turn out to be the first foray into the console wars [...]

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