Hydrophobia!
Mar 25th
Remember Hydrophobia? A stunning looking survival-adventure being devloped by Dark Energy Digital that first came to light at E3 in 2008, a game that involved more than a bucket full of water, well more deliciousness could be about to wash our way?
Powered by the HydroEngine, an engine that provides realistic fluid dynamics technology for flowing water, allowing it to interact with the surroundings.
Check out the YouTube video, incredibly gorgeous and what’s going on? The official Hydrophobia website has got a countdown timer nicley ticking away. Could this mean the game is almost upon on us? I hope so.
***Game Plot.***
The game is set in the mid 21st century when the world has fallen into the chaos of the Great Population Flood, and takes place aboard the Queen of the World, a luxury city-sized ocean vessel, built by a group of corporate giants known as the “Five Founding Fathers”; the group who, due to the Queen, have prospered while the rest of the world suffered.
At the beginning of the game, the craft is bombed by a group of terrorists known as the Malthusian, named after political economist Thomas Malthus who predicted that population growth would one day outpace agricultural production, returning society More >
STEAM on the Xbox 360.
Mar 23rd
Most PC gamers have probably tried Valve’s STEAM gaming service, or at least know someone who has. It’s a great service that makes gaming and communicating with your friends as easy as one, two, three.
As described from Valve’s official STEAM website.
The Features:
- Instantly access your favourite games The full Steam library and all future Steam releases are at your fingertips. After you’ve purchased a game, download it immediately and start playing.
- Join the Steam Community Now it’s easy to find someone to play with, meet up with friends, connect with groups with similar interests, and host and join chats, matches, and tournaments. Best of all, it’s all free.
- Chat with your friends while gaming With Steam’s “Friends” service, you can talk to your friends while you play. You can also see when they’re playing games and easily join the same servers together.
- Easily browse multiplayer game servers Steam’s integrated server browser makes it easy to navigate thousands of Internet game servers.
- Receive automatic game updates Hunting for patches and downloading from unorganized web sites is so twentieth-century. On Steam, your games stay up-to-date by themselves. No hassles.
- Play your games on any PC Once you have a Steam account, you can sign in from any PC to access your games. Your games More >
Will the PlayStation Move be fair?
Mar 16th
It looks rather odd, even bordering on obscene with the glowing bulb on the end; an ice cream cone, a radioactive one that can change colour. Apparently kids are going to love this feature, probably I will too. PlayStation Move is Sony’s answer to Nintendo’s ultra money making motion technology, the Wii Remote and MotionPlus. Unlike Microsoft, who are stepping further into the unknown with Project Natal (controller-less) technology, Sony’s ice cream cone is the knife, the instrument which is hopefully going to slice off some of Nintendo’s party pie.
The bigwig’s at camp Sony state Move is incredibly more precise than the Wii Remote, that’s with the MotionPlus gadget banged on the end and it can be easily integrated into the existing titles. Interviews from GDC 2010 show Little Big Planet and SOCOM 4 running the technology. I must admit in the time I owned my Wii it was extremely good fun playing games such as Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Red Steel and games like Medal of Honor Heroes 2 and the Conduit further embraced motion control, after all shooting games and motion control go hand in hand… excuse the pun.
I’ve heard rumours that Killzone 3 will also embrace Move More >
