Sony
Computer Entertainment Australia have announced solid results for
calendar year 2011. Official NPD Group Australia data confirming that
PlayStation console sales outperformed the competition.
Sony
Australia has announced pre-orders of its Personal 3D Viewer will begin
on Friday, 27 January 2012. It offers a spectacular new style of
viewing for both 2D and 3D content in the luxury of your living room.
EA Games and Bioware are offering gamers who preorder Mass
Effect 3 from select Australian and New Zealand retailers a selection
of goodies in anticipation for one of 2012's biggest games.
Sony have announced "The Last of Us", a new franchise created
exclusively for PlayStation 3. Developed by the creators of the
highly acclaimed and best-selling Uncharted series, Naughty Dog.
NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe and Ubisoft have announced that
the wall climbing, roof jumping Ezio Auditore from the Assassins Creed
series will be a playable guest character in SoulCalibur V.
Become
a dogs best friend in this life simulation game. From playing tug-o-war
or riding through town on horseback this game has a variety of games,
activities and challenges.
Volume
3 will feature 35 chart-topping hits and exclusive footage from Season
2 of the hit television show, GLEE. Available December 1 on the
Nintendo Wii.
Taking
charge of Shank, a former mob hitman with a dark and vengeful past.
Gamers are thrust into action when the lives of those close to Shank
are endangered.
Konami Digital Entertainment has released a new demo for its PES
2012 title that will hit stores later this year. It is available for
the Playstation 3, XBox 360 and Windows PC now.
Ubisofts fourth game in the Assassins Creed
franchise, Assassins Creed: Revelations will be hitting stores on
November 15, 2011. In anticipation Ubisoft has revealed the Collector Box.
Barkin' Buddy is the newest and most unique mobile
app we've see in awhile. The application allows dog lovers to connect
via a social networking enviornment.
Activision and Treyarch have revealed that
famed horror and action
stars Robert Englund, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Michael Rooker and Danny
Trejo have joined the cast of Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation's
zombie level, Call of the Dead.
What is a Fanboy?
Perhaps a more appropriate question would be, when does a fan become
into a Fanboy? Sandra
Maksimovic has taken time out of her videogame development studies to
take a closer look at the Fanboy (Fan-people?) phenomenon, and some of
the possible reasons for their one-eyed love of Nintendo, Sega, Sony,
or Microsoft. And sometimes Atari.
We've
got a new writer and she's got a new bi-monthly column - but what's it
all about? Well, seeing as how Sandra is currently studying game
development at a top secret laboratory that floats in the clouds and
can only be accessed by headbutting a floating block of
masonry that reveals a
strange bean stalk, she offers her opinion on all
topical games
industry issues, such as the looming Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, and
Xbox 360 console war.
Do
you ever tire of games? Have you thought the frustration and punishment
you must endure just to beat a game is obscene? Offensive? In
her regular gaming
column, Sandra
Maksimovic writes that she has gamer-over phobia. This often
wrongly
diagnosed fear of digital failure affects one in every three gamers,
and like Bird Flu there is no cure...
