Director: Stuart Hendler Writers: Aaron Helbing, Todd Helbing Actors: Tom Green, Anna Popplewell, Enisha Brewster, Osric Chau, Kat De Lieva, Daniel Cudmore, Mike Dopud, Masam Holden, Ayelet Zurer, Iain Belcher I’ve never understood why people like Halo. I’ve always thought of it as a very average piece of science ficti... Read More »
Special editions of videogames are standard practice in the industry these days. Usually priced around the £150 mark, you can get your favourite game alongside a treasure trove of gimmicky nonsense and marketing tat. Call of Duty games have included toy IEDs (because why not) and Dead Island Riptide’s special edition i... Read More »
Back in the day, my Saturday mornings would begin with humming along to the theme tune from Disney’s Duck Tales. Watching the adventures of Scrooge and nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie captivated me as I awoke from my slumber. In 1990 Capcom brought a tear to my eye as they released Duck Tales: The Game on the NES. ... Read More »
My relationship with Call of Duty began during the pre-launch hype for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. I’d never played a CoD game before, and wanted to try a previous edition to get some sort of idea as to what the series was like. Interrogating my friends revealed that CoD 2 was preferred to 3, so I picked up a... Read More »
Xbox One was officially revealed last night to jaded gamers everywhere. We’ve gathered the most relevant facts into one handy guide for you, focusing on the console hardware and game-related topics covered in the conference. So grab a cuppa, and have a gander! Console The new console was actually shown in the flesh (we... Read More »
About a month ago my main desktop display decided to take a dump on my heart and die. So, I set out to find a new one. My history with purchasing electronics can only be summed up as “hasty”. I was bound and determined to make an informed decision this time around and set out to my nearest big box electroni... Read More »
Tonight is an important night for the gaming community of Planet Earth. In a rare event where the planets, the stars, and Larry Hyrb’s testicles have aligned, Microsoft are revealing their new console. Tonight at 6pm UTC, we invite you to join us on the livestream for a special game of Xbox Bingo. But first, let’s have... Read More »
This week Microsoft released figures detailing the relative sizes of different sectors within the games industry. The image below shows the total size of the video-games market ($65 Billion), and splits it into consoles, PC gaming, social/browser, handheld, and of course tablet and mobile. The headline figure (literall... Read More »
About this time every year the gaming community belly-flops into a sea of wild speculation about what they will see at E3. But this year is different. Microsoft and Sony are jumping ship and having their own events to make their grand announcements. And Nintendo, the slow (but surprisingly entertaining) kid of the fami... Read More »
Episode 73 of the DeathByRobots video game podcast is brought to you this week in association with old timey radio. Join Jenn, Ryan, Ant and Dave as they discuss Kickstarters, Nintendo (again), EA ditching online passes, Illumiroom, and other crap as always… What would you like us to discuss? What would you like ... Read More »
I don’t wear glasses… although I probably should. Maybe even for driving – watch out people of Kent! Every day I sit at my computer and either write things for the website you now currently find yourself viewing, or editing articles and images, or producing the witty, charismatic enigma that resides in TheGameJar’s soc... Read More »
How we wish we could tell you this is some sort of horrible, cruel joke. Sony Entertainment Pictures announced that they’ve secured the exclusive rights to an Angry Birds feature film. This raises a lot of questions – why now? Why ever? Has the world gone mad? Making a decent movie is literally an art-form. The greats ... Read More »
So, I finally caved in and bought an iPhone 5. I don’t regret it. In fact after suffering many years using first a Blackberry, and then even worse – a HTC, it was about time I got a phone I really liked, and one that can capably allow me to play games wherever I am! On my voyage to owning all consoles of this generatio... Read More »
After the triumphantly average performance of Gran Turismo 5, it was all but formally announced yesterday that Gran Turismo 6 will be released for Playstation 3 in the traditionally vague Americanised timeframe of ‘Holiday’. We’re not sure whose holiday the games industry has become obsessed with, or what their destina... Read More »
EA have teased through a new website that Frostbite 3 will be getting a mobile adaptation. “Frostbite Go” will bring the engine that powers Battlefield, Mass Effect and many others to mobile devices. Usually this would be a pretty run of the mill announcement, which TheGameJar would have mildly shrugged at, but when ju... Read More »
With Eve Online celebrating its tenth anniversary this month, I thought I’d have a go at debunking some of the more common myths surrounding the sandbox spaceship MMO. I’ve been playing Eve for some time now, just over four years in fact, and in that time the same few questions have been asked of me. What f... Read More »
I tried playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown, I really did. I even watched it played through to the end. There’s just something about it that didn’t appeal to me. No matter how many times I tried to pick it up and play it, there was this nagging feeling in the back of my mind that it wasn’t for me. Not everyone will agree with ... Read More »
The collectively clenched butt-cheeks of the internet squeezed a little tighter last week when a purportedly ‘leaked’ photo of the new Xbox announcement made the rounds on some pretty big news sites. Universally respected journalistic stalwarts like GameSpot and ArsTechnica fell for the prank like team of blind roofers... Read More »
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