Valve giving away their new game 'Alien Swarm'

It looks kinda like a cross between a top-down Left4Dead and the old classic Alien Breed games.

There's plenty more videos to check on the site, in case you're not sure if you want to download it. However, it's FREE so there's not much to complain about. I guess they want to up the numbers of people playing on Steam.

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No more PCZone!

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What the cock? PCZone is being cancelled!

I always bought this magazine until the internet made it easy for me to get all the information for free and much more quickly. Why on Earth would they possibly think about cancelling it?

If you are/were a PCZone lover/reader/hater then you have an opportunity to have an effect on the final episode, be it with an article or a mention or with a personal insult in reply to your retarded letter.

You can do it by looking here.

It went downhill when they dumped Culky anyway.

Brooker had this to say: "PC Zone was a cross between Viz and Which? magazine. It never took anything too seriously, least of all itself. It was also where I learned to write, so if you hate my flippant, manic-depressive 'style', blame PC Zone.

"Often the reviews were quite long: you'd have to write four or five pages on Tomb Raider, say, which offered plenty of scope for going off on tangents or penning lengthy nonsensical screeds. There was an attitude of 'anything goes provided it's funny'. It was as much comedy mag as games mag.

"I guess its demise is inevitable. Actually, I'm impressed it lasted as long as it did, given the dominance of consoles, and the sheer wealth of reviews and so forth you can find for free online. The mag itself may have died, but the general tone and character of PC Zone lives on in British gaming sites and forums, and in Ben Croshaw's Zero Punctuation pieces and the like."

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New Xbox reviewed

The shiny new xbox comes out tomorrow somewhere (perhaps even here?), so here's CVG's review of it.

Speaking to Microsoft reps at the unboxing event, we were told repeatedly that the firm believes this is the best console it's ever made. We make them right. This is the solid, polished machine it should have been to begin with. If PS3 had one undeniable advantage over 360 in the past it was in the hardware stakes, but MS has truly stepped up its game.

We want one. You should too.

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How the 3DS works

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh...

Stereoscopic 3D has been around for a very long time. Many of us had toys that used the effect when we were kids in the form of a View-Master. The way the 3D works is that two nearly identical images are presented, one to each eye. Your brain combines the images into a single image, which creates depth in the single image. The reason the depth effect works is because each image is slightly different from a perspective standpoint, and when the image is fused in your brain, both perspectives are preserved, making the scene look alive.


Below I have a good example piece. To make it work you’ll have to cross your eyes until you see a 3rd image between the two. Focus on that 3rd (middle) image and it should come into focus. You may have to get closer to your monitor (10 to 12 inches) to make it work. If you do it correctly, the image should clarify and show depth to it. Try it now.

I may, possibly, have used a different example image.

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Ok I think I have to buy Red Dead Redemption

I hate admitting that popular games might actually be good, and I hate agreeing with RICHARD about anything, but the hype and the chatter has all gotten too much now. I need to play.



No-one seems to remember Red Dead Revolver though. Maybe I'll pick that up and dust off the ol' PS2...



Oh, praps the 360 would play the old xbox version?

Pro Evo 2011 looks... I dunno, pretty?

I love Pro Evo. No matter how much better FIFA might get, I'll always claim Pro Evo is superior. But I still play '08 because I absolutely hated the shit they changed with '09 and '10.

This video for '11 looks pretty slick, but I can't tell how much is game options/settings and how much is video frill (I think it's mostly the latter).

Have a look courtesy of gamespot.

More games need big heads

I was reading some IGN (yes I was bored) and came across this marvellous looking gem called 'Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2010'.



As with all crazy games like this it seems to have some form of Pokemon esque boring conversation pieces, although this might be the team talk or something. The next bewildering part is probably a lot less bewildering if you understand Japanese. Plus I think this is an old crusty PS2 version or something.

Anyway, it made me think. Big heads are, obviously, the most heart-warmingly hilarious thing in the world. So why are they so horrifically underused? The best we get is 'big head mode', which of course you have played in Goldeneye.



Sorry about the Scottish twats (thanks for the video guys!)

Super Mario Crossover

I just spent ages looking for a NES on ebay so I could play super mario bros, then I found this. It's a pretty awesome remake. Plus you can play as the dude from Contra... complete with gun.

PS it takes AGES to load, and then when it has it takes AGES to load AGAIN for some reason. But it's worth it. To be this good takes ages!

AAAH HE SAID IT!

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PS Move much better video

Those crazy japanese marketing people have come up trumps.
Don't forget the strapu!

PS Move FAQ

Since I devoted a few posts to Kinect, it only seems fair to take a look at the daft looking stupid coloured balls of Playstation Move.

The PlayStation Move is coming to a PS3 near you, and it's bringing a brand new way to play. The next sword fighting game you play might require you to get off the couch and pick up your weapon, and a future level you dive into in LittleBigPlanet might need you to rotate the world with your hands.


We at IGN aren't going to abandon you as motion makes its way to the masses. Here, we've gathered the most common PlayStation Move questions and paired them with the answers we know. As we get more and more information, we'll update this FAQ.

I can't tell if their 'FAQ' is wrong/rubbish or if specs have changed, since both these Sony videos have two silly little balls on the controllers but the article says only one hand gets one. Maybe it's just because the video is 100% faked and the marketing company making it wasn't briefed properly.



Apparently the future of video games unavoidably involves looking like a twat.

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