 My number one next gen gaming wish
 16.12.2011 19:38  5 views  0 comments
Why designers need to fall out of love with menus.
One of the things Atari's most recent Alone in the Dark did well, other than destroying a well-loved brand, was find a way to have menus without actually having menus. Instead, you get to look inside Edward Carnby's coat. This is more interesting than it sounds. Less salacious, too.
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| The official Xbox 360 drinking game
16.12.2011 17:57 5 views 0 comments
Celebrate gaming by brutalising your brain cells.
It's Friday night, and thus time for us to stop fannying around with videogames and resume the serious business of alcohol consumption. Will you be joining us? Oh go on - there's room in life for more than one self-destructive habit.
 
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| Poll: can you wait till 2013 for Xbox 720?
16.12.2011 16:19 6 views 0 comments
When should Microsoft kick off its next gen showing?.
Xbox 720 rumours are as common as carbon atoms these days. We're honestly a bit sick of writing about them. Somebody announce something already, something we don't have to qualify with a "reportedly" or an "apparently".
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| Ridge Racer dev would be "happy" to reboot Need for Speed next
16.12.2011 15:51 5 views 0 comments
EA's racing IP is a "wide umbrella", plenty of room to experiment.
Ridge Racer: Unbounded developer Bugbear Entertainment is open to the idea of making a Need for Speed title, producer Joonas Laakso has revealed.
           
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| Soul Calibur 5: hands-on with Ezio Auditore
16.12.2011 14:49 5 views 0 comments
How Namco transforms the Assassin's Creed frontman.
There are certain universal truths in videogames, conventions and traditions of long-cherished stature. Red things will always blow up (except for health packs). Every Halo game will have a Flood level, and every physics system, no matter how advanced, will eventually break to hilarious/annoying effect.
        
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| Prototype 2 tries its hand at Assassin's Creed in new video
16.12.2011 12:27 5 views 0 comments
Radical shows off stalking and mutations.
Look out, Ezio - virally powered assassin coming through! Radical and Activision's latest Prototype 2 trailer delves into the nitty-gritty of hunting.
     
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| New Modern Warfare 3 modes and changes launching today
16.12.2011 11:55 4 views 0 comments
Hardcore Ricochet and Drop Zone lead the charge.
Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling has announced a new Community Playlist for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, offering "popular or unique" modes created by Modern Warfare fans.
 
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| Kojima's new FOX game revealed, lets you see women's underwear
16.12.2011 11:16 4 views 0 comments
Metal Gear Solid creator drops foxy screenshots.
Hideo Kojima has Tweeted a couple of screenshots created using the new FOX Engine, the technology that will "pave the way" for Kojima franchises to go multi-platform.
 
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| Ridge Racer dev: "nobody seems to know what sort of racing game actually sells"
16.12.2011 11:05 5 views 0 comments
Bugbear talks Need for Speed's decline, Blur's failure to find an audience.
Racing game developers are in commercial limbo, according to Ridge Racer: Unbounded producer Joonas Laakso, with no obvious successful design formula to follow.
           
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| Five franchises Microsoft should make Xbox-exclusive
15.12.2011 19:55 4 views 0 comments
Plugging the gaps in Xbox 360's line-up.
The Xbox 360 isn't short of exclusive franchises, but like the Dickensian orphans we secretly are, we can't help asking for more.
  
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| Skyrim video: this is why dragons shouldn't touch alcohol
15.12.2011 17:13 6 views 0 comments
Bethesda bug has amusing consequences.
Dragons are supposedly among Tamriel's most intelligent creatures, masters and mistresses of a language so profound it can alter reality itself, syllables manifest as gouts of elemental energy.
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| Anarchy Reigns release date pushed back to July 2012
15.12.2011 16:23 4 views 0 comments
Might actually have a chance of selling now.
Bad news, Sexy Fist of Fire fans. Sega has delayed Platinum Games brawler Anarchy Reigns till July 2012.
    
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| DICE: Battlefield 3 beta isn't latest code, retail version is "well ahead"
02.10.2011 11:55 20 views 0 comments
Frame rate, spawning, killcam and animation bugs already fixed.
The Battlefield 3 beta is not based on the latest Battlefield 3 build, developer DICE has predictably insisted, with many of the technical problems reported by Xbox 360 users already addressed in the retail version.
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| 40 Forza 4 screenshots
01.10.2011 18:57 11 views 0 comments
Some snaps from our video of the Forza 4 demo.
To mark the arrival of the Forza 4 demo, we've taken a collection of screenshots to go with our exclusive demo footage. Click through to see Turn 10's excellent new racing game in action.
                                       
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| Forza 4 demo - exclusive HD videos
01.10.2011 17:03 13 views 0 comments
See Turn 10's Xbox 360 exclusive racer in action, and get early access to the demo.
The Forza 4 demo arrives on Monday, ahead of the game itself the Friday after that. But we've got some codes for early access to it - so we've used one to run off a couple of videos, and we're giving the rest away. Read on to see the best racing game on Xbox 360 be put through its paces, and find out how you could get early access yourself.
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| Free Portal 2 DLC pack Peer Review coming next week
01.10.2011 14:38 11 views 0 comments
Atlas and P-Body return, new Challenge mode included.
Valve has announced that the first Portal 2 DLC pack, originally slated for a summer release, will hit Xbox Live on 4th October, featuring a new co-op chapter for lovable robot duo Atlas and P-Body.
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| Battlefield 3 on Xbox 360: Six things DICE needs to fix
01.10.2011 13:37 15 views 0 comments
With the Battlefield 3 beta in swing, OXM goes bug-hunting.
Massive public betas: there's not much point running them if your game isn't broken in a number of difficult-to-anticipate ways. The Battlefield 3 beta's hiccups are all part of the wondrous mystery that is game development, and we're sure EA and DICE will have the lion's share ironed flat by the time the finished game hits stores next month.
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| Why all sequels should allow you to import game data
01.10.2011 9:00 13 views 0 comments
If music games can do it, why not anyone else?.
This may sound ridiculous, but one of the most exciting aspects of Dance Central 2 for me is content import. Don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to the stonking soundtrack that Harmonix has prepared, but equally there are some classic tunes and routines from the original game that I can't wait to tackle in DC2's two-player Dance Battle mode.
 
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| The OXM Edit: Battlefield 3
30.09.2011 18:25 9 views 0 comments
OXM's embarrassing BF3 beta moments revisited, for giggles.
Ah, Battlefield 3. What a mockery your multiplayer beta makes of our supposed gaming skillz, smashing us over the head with spawn screen after spawn screen. Fortunately, incompetence doesn't have to be regrettable - it can be a source of harmless amusement.
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| How many times has a beta or demo put you off buying a game?
30.09.2011 17:20 14 views 0 comments
Poll: Count those torn-up preorder receipts.
As FIFA 12 producer David Rutter told us only yesterday, a demo is a tricky thing to do well. To start with, the question of which content is actually ready for public consumption. Then, the question of which content reflects the game best. And finally, the question of which content you can afford to give away.
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