Why Female Gamers Deserve Respect

Before you finish reading this, go to YouTube and search for “girl gamer”. When you are finished gawking, come back and ponder the results. Far too often female gamers are associated with sexual exploitation, and in some cases female professionals in the gaming industry are subjected to ridicule and even...

AlienWare Area 52 Sydney Tour – Starts July 19th!

On 7th July 2011 an alien vessel disguised as an Airstream landed in an industrial area in Melbourne now code named 'Area 52'. Its power was unlike anything ever witnessed before by humankind. The Airstream created such a strange effect on the surrounding area that Special Ops were called in an attempt to...

Nintendo WiiU: The Criticisms

It is quite likely that you have been living in deep fissure on the planet Mars, with your fingers in your lugholes if you have not yet heard of Nintendo’s planned console for 2012; the WiiU. The console was announced during Nintendo’s conference at the E3 event in Los Angeles and of course, many people...

Fighting Video Games: How to ruin a perfectly good game of Tekken 6

Both video games enthusiasts and the more “casual” gamer enjoy the occasional bash on fighting games from series’ like Tekken, Dead or Alive, Mortal Combat, Street Fighter and/or Soul Calibur but there are always those who spoil the fun for everyone else. “How?” you may ask. Well here is my low...

5 Killer Tips To Get More Out Of Your XBox 360

Playing on your Xbox 360 can be great, but when you're playing that next round of golf on Tiger Woods 2010, are you really wondering: isn't there more to life? Well, okay, we're not going to get that philosophical on you today, but you might have found yourself wondering if there might be a little more to...

Mortal Kombat- From The Arcade to the XBox

With fighting game giants like Street Fighter IV, Marvel vs Capcom III and Soul Calibur IV dominating today's market with 3D graphics and carefully moderated violence, it's easy for the new generation of gamers to forget the fighting series that pioneered surreal violence, innovative display techniques, and...

Five Reasons the Xbox Kinect Is Right For You

Although the whole world has been used to the idea of motion controllers for some time - the Nintendo Wii essentially made a more active way of interacting with video games the norm rather than the exception - the technology is not slowing down and settling into a niche. It’s actually in sales, as...

The Best of The Nintendo 3DS Game Launch Lineup

If it seems a very, very long time since gaming had a hardware launch, then that’s because it is. The last big console launches were nearly five years ago now and the last major portable console was the PSP back in 2005. Usually, we’d be looking to the hardware giants to throw an entirely new generation...