As we move into 2009 its a perfect time to harken back to an epic title from 2008 that I read today only shipped 280,000 units worldwide – largely (I believe) because its unknown. Valkyria Chronicles is an awesome RPG/strategy game which I’m convinced almost any PS3 owning gamer can enjoy. Its storyline is fantastic [...]

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As the days count down to the biggest gaming release of the year (imho), the GTA IV previews and features are piling up. 1UP.com has a new information, with some nice screenshots on the maturity on the gaming franchise and what we can expect. If — for the purposes of the standard preview preamble — [...]

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Wii Fit has finally been dated for South Africa, due for release on the 5th of May. Yes, before America (high five). “Wii Fit, the latest innovative game for the Wii, looks set to revolutionise the gaming community. Core Group today confirmed with El33tonline that Wii Fit will be flexing its muscles across South Africa [...]

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In easily the most interesting GTA  IV article I’ve read recently; Games Radar debates 12 potential flaws in the new GTA. From the removal of customization, the loss of humour, the smaller world etc; Games Radar discusses the potential problems with Rockstar’s decisions and then the positive side of it. You’ve heard the hype. Grand [...]

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From a nude Lara Croft to Playstation 2′s guiding missles; the top 7 gaming myths are a laugh. I personally remember hearing of some of them and am convinced you can get over the flag in Mario. Seriously. We all have heard of them, swore to have done them or know someone whose cousin has. [...]

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World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King has officially entered closed alpha testing according to Slashdot and WoW Insider. When will you get a go ? Wow Insider explains the release cycle a bit more – Alpha is part of the software release life cycle — a software product in development goes from alpha [...]

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Everybody knows pills are awesome. Everyone also knows gaming is awesome. Game Suppli is the gaming supplement (to be taken orally, not buttockally as Gizmodo has let us know) for the ultimate gamer. Tripletags – There’s a new Japanese pill out called ‘Game Suppli’ that geared specifically towards gamers. Do you have tired eyes? Can’t [...]

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HardOCP has a full review/test of Crysis on identical machines running DX9 and DX10; with full numbers; FPS and all other changes graphed, documented and more – its a great article comparing the two. “Crysis, 5 months later. No excuses about immature drivers or API issues. We look at how Crysis DX9 compares to Crysis [...]

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nihilogic has published a free, online Super Mario clone (1 level); only its 14kb in size and written completely in javascript! On his blog, he talks about some of the goals of the script and how it was made – Here’s an experiment in keepings things small and confined to one Javascript file. There are [...]

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The PlayStation Blog says the new PSP Firmware update is on its way, with the following changes – While playing PSone games on your PSP, you can now customize how the buttons are assigned by going to [Controller Settings] > [Assign Buttons] and select [Custom]. You can now quit Remote Play and choose to turn [...]

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