Geek Overture

The end of the year is almost upon us, as is the end of the world if you’re listening to the Mayans, so before we are all wiped off the face of the Earth we thought it would be interesting to have a look back at the gaming year of 2012. It has been a [...]

Get excited; Irrational Games have posted a teaser trailer for the heavily anticipated BioShock Infinite. Rather than showing us a bunch of ‘not actual game’ footage, they’ve decided to show us the first five glorious minutes of actual game play! *spoiler alert* This video contains scenes that may spoil the story line (duh, it’s in-play [...]

Many of us will be expecting to be receiving games from Santa next week and we have looked at what games we expect people to be asking for but we wanted to take a look into the future and see what games are coming out in 2013 that people are already beginning to make some [...]

This year has flown past and we are already diving head long into November! The weather is getting colder,and we are finally beginning to wrap up and starting to think about Christmas presents. Computer games will be high on the list for many a young (and not so young) gamer so we wanted to have [...]

The best football game is back for another instalment (sorry PES fans), and it looks to be crowned king for another season. Believe it or not, the demo has already been downloaded a massive 4.6 million times! Its shattered last year’s record by 42%. It’s also achieved over 1 million pre-orders too. But what can [...]

It is almost here: the biggest World of Warcraft update is almost upon us.  Mists of Pandaria is going to be launched tomorrow and it looks visually stunning. The expansion will see the many new additions to the already massive WoW world including a new class, Monk, and brand new race: the Pandaren. Although the [...]

Many people are involved with online gaming and for some it is a way to make a living. It has become a fairly big business with many gamers in China farming gold and items in games such as World of Warcraft and then selling them for real money. I came across this documentary that highlights [...]

As the footy season begins its final warm up, so too does the PES vs. Fifa debate. PES 2013 demo is available for download now. So what’s new? There seems to be an overhaul of gameplay in terms of mechanics. Konami suggest PES Fullcontrol allows gamers a better and more realistic experience with first touch, [...]

The humble pixel has come a long way from just displaying our favourite computer game characters and has started to make it out into the real world. Pixel art is not new but it is something that I have always found interesting as little mosaics spring up in the strangest of places. I think the [...]

Last week saw the E3 convention taking place at the Los Angeles Convention Centre. E3 is the world’s premier trade show for computer games. It attracts tens of thousands of professionals as well as the most innovative and influential people within the industy. There is nothing like a computer games expo to bring out the [...]