Category Archives: Gaming

GTA: Episodes from Liberty City coming to PC, PS3

Rockstar has announced that the GTA IV standalone expansion , Episodes from Liberty City, will be released for the PlayStation 3 and PC platforms. The Episodes from Liberty City expansion, which was originally released late last year as an Xbox 360 exclusive, contains the Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and Damned expansions to [...]

The Top Five Best Games Based on Films

Hollywood doesn’t have a great reputation when it comes collaborating with game developers – pretty much every film that’s ever been based on a game has been forgettable dross at best. Well, except for the Hitman movie maybe. That’s actually kind of fun in a stupid don’t-have-to-concentrate kind of way, if you ask us. The [...]

Pay what you want for World of Goo

2D Boy is celebrating the first birthday of World of Goo in two ways – firstly by announcing a new sale and secondly by announcing that an iPhone version of the game is on the way. Firstly though; if you don’t know what World of Goo is then it’s a physics-based puzzler from small indie [...]

Left 4 Dead 2 demo coming next month

Valve has released a statement from the Tokyo Games Show, declaring that it hopes to have a demo of Left 4 Dead 2 available next month. No plans were officially announced regarding platforms, exclusivity or content – but the target date is October 27th. While Valve hasn’t confirmed if the demo will be open to [...]

Valve researching games for the deaf

Valve founder Gabe Newell has hinted that the developer is researching sign language implementation in games for the introduction of a new deaf character in Half-Life: Episode Three. The news comes from a series of YouTube videos filmed at Valve headquarters which are part of a focus group Newell conducted with a hearing-impaired audience to [...]

New Left 4 Dead 2 zombies, items unveiled

One of the new infected unveiled today via GameSpy is a new boss infected called the Spitter. Like the Smoker from Left 4 Dead 1, the Spitter prefers to attack from range, but favours lobbing acidic phlegm at survivors rather than tongue-grappling them. The acidic venom of the Spitter apparently works like a sticky mortar [...]