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Points For Life

Just heard about this, I’m a sucker for charity events and I think this is a great idea. It would be nice if it went global and each player could donate to children’s hospitals in their respective countries.
 
What is Points for Life?
Points For Life is a 24hour gaming event on June 5th 2010. Play will start at [...]

Pietà for Nintendo Geeks

Via Kotaku .
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Visit the Village of the Dead on the West Coast

So the village of the dead is in Ireland. No this isn’t about ghost estates but the 2007 PS3 game Folklore . For some reason the Japanese game designers decided to play with the tales of the Sidhe and the other Irish Fairy folk and make a little village on the West coast of Ireland [...]

Review: Heavy Rain (PS3)

Videogames have aspired to be ‘like films’ for as long as I’ve played them. Back in the early 90s, Hollywood movies were exciting, sexy, glamorous, culturally accepted-everything that videogames weren’t. A lot has changed since then, of course, with videogaming staking a strong claim as the mode of entertainment of choice of the noughties, for [...]

Gaming News: Civilization 5

Great news game geeks. Sid Meier’s Civilization is back this autumn with the fifth instalment of the multi-million selling PC franchise. Firaxis is currently developing the game, due for release “Fall 2010″. No definite date yet, but there are plenty of interesting pieces of information, as well as some gorgeous screenshots.

For those of you who [...]

Review: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (Wii)

This Wii re-imagining of that ‘other’ classic Japanese survival horror series wastes little time in demonstrating that it’s a little bit special. What’s this- detailed, smooth graphics? Precise motion controls? Sky-high production values? It’s not hard to see why our interest was piqued.
Whilst we’re usually more than a little sceptical of any game or movie [...]

Mass Effect 2 Review

 
 
I was a little sceptical coming up to the release of Mass Effect 2. Ever since Modern Warfare 2 became the most popular thing ever and somebody discovering that if you make games to make money then taking money from the development team and putting it into advertising instead is guaranteed to increase your sales, [...]

No Added Sugar: Push The Button

Doesn’t anyone else find Apple supremely irritating? Sure, their products typically exhibit the cutting edge in industrial design, and their user interface design prowess is famously unrivalled.  Yet, call me a curmudgeon, a Free Software communist, or just a sore loser, but given the restrictive choices that Apple products typically offer-our way or the [...]

Gaming News: Sonic the Hedgehog 4

That’s right ladies and gentlemen, a new Sonic the Hedgehog game is on the way. And none of this Rush, Adventure, Rivals, Olympics, or Black Knight/Secret Rings nonsense either. It’s the proper sequel to the Mega Drive (Genesis) series. It’s an old-school 2D side-scrolling platformer, just like Sonic 1-3 and the criminally underrated Sonic & [...]

Movies as retro video games- James Cameron’s Avatar!

Avatar as a retro video game. There’s a host of them on Penny Design .
Via Kotaku .

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Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend

Team Fortress 2 is the best online multiplayer game ever. It’s perfectly balanced, competitive, insanely fun, cheap and above all doesn’t take itself in the slightest bit seriously. Valve’s now 2 year old masterpiece is free to play in it’s entirity for the weekend. It’s available to preload on PC now, so you can [...]

Ten Top Xbox 360 Games for Christmas

On Tuesday Rob gave us a great run-down of games for Sony’s PS3 console, just in time for Christmas. As he’s not an Xbox gamer I have taken up responsibility for giving you a guide to what’s good on Microsoft’s gaming goliath.  So here’s 10 of the best of what’s around this festive season.
Assassin’s [...]

Competition: Win Two PS3 Games

*** Competition Closed ***
Ok, so it’s fair to say that I’m no big Gamer. I don’t have a PS3, I don’t have an X-Box and I can only just handle MarioKart on the Wii. So, when it comes to sports games, I’m at a loss. I wish I could say something about NHL 10 other [...]

Command and Conquer 4 – Joe Kucan aka “Kane” Interview

Joe Kucan tells culch.ie of the many changes in the up and coming Command and Conquer 4.
I had a quick chance to play one of the new multiplayer modes which the series now focuses on. Gone are the days of base building with all building based units now being replaced by one mega mobile base [...]

Cool but Ultimately Pointless – Social Media comes home

After all the hype in the last few weeks about Facebook and Twitter integration coming to Xbox 360 it finally happened yesterday. Today Sony has launched a firmware upgrade to 3.10, which will allow Facebook trophy and game sync support. So Microsoft’s great coup lasted all of one day? Nice.

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Left 4 Dead 2 – Chet Faliszek Interview

With Left 4 Dead 2 only days away Chet Faliszek talks about why we should bother, the New Orleans setting, explains “realism Mode” and definitely doesn’t say when Half Life 3 is out.
Left 4 Dead 2 is available on PC and X-box 360 from Tuesday. PC users can buy it on Steam from here . [...]

Competition: Zombie Night in The Sugar Club

This Friday Night is Zombie Night in The Sugar Club! Woop Woop!
You and your mate could be in with a chance to win 2 tickets to preview EA’s much anticipated Left 4 Dead 2 videogame this coming Friday The 13th thanks to Movies.ie ! Left 4 Dead was a huge hit last year, consequently being [...]

Hands on – Games out this week

Video games are increasingly taking a more central role in our lives and in the ever broadening scope of popular culture. With that in mind I wanted to keep you all abreast of the current situation in gaming. This week sees the release of one of the biggest games of the year, along with a [...]

Is M really short for Colonel Mustard?

Controversy in the world of board games sounds like a storm in a teacup, but when Hasbro updated Clue (the UK and Ireland are the only places where is still called Cluedo) last year from a tale of murder in an Christie style English country manor in [...]

All your base are belong to us

Legendary games creator Sid Meier is set to bring his classic Civilization franchise to Facebook soon, in the guise of Civilization Network. Meier has confirmed that Civilization Network will be hitting Facebook sometime in 2010 and that the development team will be needing beta testers “to help us develop a unique new way to play [...]