Logo
 Linking to Smedias 2012
 
 Linking to Free Stuff
 
 Linking to The Spanner Homepage
 
 Linking to Entertainment
 
Gaming News
 Linking to Geralt of Here, Witcher: The Witcher 2 Dev Diary

The Witcher 2! It's out on the 17th of May, and you're all going to buy, yessah. To tide yourselves over, watch this Developer Diary. Inside. After the jump. Obv. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Rage Trailer & a Mark Lanegan Song: Bi-Winning

Rage! It's from the guys who made a little game named Mood, or something. And Castle Wittgenstein. And Quack. And now there's a Mark Lanegan song associated with it. And it's free. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Seeing Stars: WWE All-Stars Character Classes

WWE All-Stars! It might be good. We can hope. But most importantly, this article contains the greatest video you'll ever see. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to The Cartel Before the Horse: New Call of Juarez Announced

Call of Juarez: gritty manshoots in an all new modern age! It's either a metaphor for the unstoppable march of time, or an attempt to boost sales. Some vague info and some tangentially relevant Bon Jovi await you. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Dragon and on and on: Dragon Age 2 Demo Dated

Dragon Age II. It's getting a demo, y'know. But do you know when? You will know when, when you read this article now. Now know, y'know? (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Man in the Box: Fight Night Champion Demo

Boxing: like dancing, but with punching and rapists. The Fight Night Champion demo gives you all of this, by letting you "box" as Tyson, Ali, Pacquaaiaoaioa, or another guy. Some thoughts are collated herein. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Deus Ex INFOSPLOSION

INFOSPLOSION! Deus Ex: Human Revolution has been played by people who know what's what. And here's what they say is what. What? (Read more...)

 
 Linking to LA Noire gets a website

LA Noire! Rockstar's attempt at "doing" a Bogart. And I don't mean hogging all the spliffs for themselves, although the probably do that too. Allegedly. Now go look at some info. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Lots and lots and lots and lots of VGA Reveal Trailers

A short time ago, some trailers happened. Now there are so many videos. We can't contain them. UPDATE: we have contained them. In this news post. Now go look at them. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Deus Ex Pre-Order Conspiracy Uncovered

Deus Ex: Human Revolution! If you're gonna pre-order any golden-tinged near-future conspiracy theory-laden FPS-RPG hybrid in the next few months, make it this one. BUT what do you get for pre-ordering? We know. And soon you will know. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Oddboxx: Oddworld Bundle PC-Bound

Oddworld games: they're a-comin' to your PC this Christmas. Read on for the Oddboxxy news. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to No Lie: Drake's Deception Revealed

Uncharted 3! It'll be out next Christmas, and I'm already thoroughly excited. You want details? I've got details. Look at 'em. All detailed. ( Read more...)

 

 
 Linking to Rebootiful: New Tomb Raider Announcement

Storied Heiress Lara Croft Acquires New Backstory - Lara Croft's Back: Full Story Inside. (Read more...)

 

 
 Linking to Uncharted: Among Antiques

UPDATE: Uncharted movie goes even further off the rails. This is where palm would traditionally collide with face. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Sued To Love Her: Axl Sues Activision

Axl Rose is suing Activision. Which is something Kotick and Ko. certainly deserve, but why is the notorious rock n' roll lunatic the one administering the smackdown? Details and an absurdly horizontal picture of Axl await within. ( Read more...)

 
 Linking to Uncharted Wahlbergs: Marky Mark Is Movie Drake

Hooray! News on who's going to be playing Nathan Drake in the Uncharted movie. Boo! It's not who we all expected or wanted or like. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Machin(im)a: Deus Ex gameplay trailer

A new trailer for the upcoming Deus Ex: Human Revolution has been released. Does it promise further trenchcoat-y good times? No. But it does promise Blade Runner-y good times, and that's almost as good. Go view it with eyes of STEEL. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Wheelie Good Value: Free Trials Game

Trials! All the fun of riding a motorbike and flying across stunt courses and falling to perishing doom without any of the lingering death. And now it's free. Find out more? Find out more. (Read more...)

 

 
 Linking to Assassin's Creed Brotherhood - First 15 mins

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is out this Friday. Point your eyes at this video of the first fifteen minutes of gameplay. Well, I say gameplay, but a lot of it is just cutscene. Which, in its own way, is perfectly representative of how the games actually are. So. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to The Undergarden demo

The Undergarden. An ambient platform puzzler. It's got a demo. I got the demo. Let's see what magic happens. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to STALKER - The TV Series

STALKER, that most excellent series of games based loosely on the fascinating novel Roadside Picnic and related Andrey Tarkovskiy movie Stalker, is now getting a spin-off TV series. Intermedia! Radiation! Ukrainians! (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Come Dine With Me: The App

Come dine with me, let's dine, let's dine away... That's what Frank Sinatra would have said, if he had been a sous chef instead of an astronaut. Anyway: some news about a Come Dine With Me iPhone app. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Atmo-Sphere: The Ball demo released

Move in, now move out. Hands up, now hands down. Back up, back up, tell me what you're gonna do now. Keep rollin rollin rollin. There is a demo of The Ball. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Necrograde: Dead Space 2 Trailer

Dead Space 2 gets a trailer. But is it scary? Dunno. Find out for yourself, eh? IIINNN SPPAAAAACCEEE. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Clang Boom Steam: The Machine released

Indie puzzler The Machine has just gone on sale. We prod this news for intersting facts and demo-ey goodness. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to High Fidel-ity: CODBLOPS Gets Interesting

Suddenly, Call of Duty: Black Ops has gone from being an uninteresting franchise extension to being an almost-mildly-interesting franchise extension. Find out why. (HINT: it involves the Cuban Missile Crisis, zombies, and possibly Futurama.) (Read more...)

 
 Linking to New Mortal Kombat Promo Vid

A new promotional video for the forthcoming Mortal Kombat game has surfaced, featuring everyone's favourite hell-ninja, Scorpion. It looks ridiculous, but we'd have it no other way - keep your Virtua Fighters and your Dead or Alives, I want to rip someone's spine out and use it to garotte them. Have a gander, won't you? (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Trailerised

Have a trailer for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, which will be hitting stores... (checks calendar, looks at watch, does silent-film double-take) quite soon indeed. So there's that to look forward to. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Just Stop Now - Games for Windows Live to Relaunch

Microsoft's online games service, Games for Windows Live, is relaunching with an array of improvements on Novemeber 15th. Come help us be not excited. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Deadly Premonition Arriving on October 29th

Some games are weird enough to demand your attention. Deadly Premonition is one of them. If you read our preview of this piece of Lynch-ian surrealism twice, you'll have taken twin peeks at it. Thank you and goodnight. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Patrice Desilets to Join THQ

Intriguing dev-house developments ahoy! Patrice Desilets, ex-Ubisoft VIP and he of Assassin's Creed "fame", is bound for greener pastures. Or at least, different pastures, in the exact same city, and probably of similar pigment. See if the thumbnail pic on the right gives any subtle hint. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Trine 2 Coming To PC, PS3, Xbox 360

Trine 2, the upcoming platformy fun-time adventure from Frozenbyte and Atlus, has been confirmed for three platforms. Find out the entirely predictable trio by reading this hastily assembled collection of vowels. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Vapourware - 30 Million Steam Users

Valve announced the size of Steam's userbase today. The reading assembled collectively cooed and clapped. Find out why. And get me some Coke. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Call of Duty: Black Ops Trailerised

Call of Duty: Black Ops is set to be released on November 8th. Will it be more successful than arch-nemesis Medal of Honour? Yes. But why? Because. Trailer inside. CODBLOPS! (Read more...)

 

 
 Linking to Medal of Honour Released Today

Grandfather Military Shooter Medal of Honour returns from the icy depths of public apathy this week with Tier 1 Special Operatives-sponsored shooty-game, Medal of Honour, which is a non-subtitled entry in the Medal of Honour shooty-series. Inside: a trailer, and some liberally-inserted-into-game-title "u"s. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Borderlands GOTY Edition Hails To The King

Borderlands Game of the Year Edition is coming out on the 12th of October. But who's that it's bringing with it? It's Mr. Duke Q. Nukem. Finally, eh? Click through for the full story. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Podgamer Launches - Several Rejoice

First there was Amiga Power. Now there is another one. Of it. Come read why the launch of Podgamer is so exciting. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to UbiSoft Classics Go HD

Like a foppish Prince nimbly flicking a switch on a conspicuous dagger, UbiSoft seem to be turning back the hands of time, and giving us prettiful HD remakes of some of their fondly-remembered classics. Read on to find out which ones. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Kick This Website's Ass

If you hate getting any work done, ever, then you will be very interested in this fantastic web-game. Make any website mere target practice with the bluntly-titled Kick Ass. Pew! Pew! Etc! Eh? (Read more...)

 

 
 Linking to EA MMA Demo Released

EA Sports' MMA game is due out October 22nd in this fair isle, and the demo is now available for download. Read on for my mildly surprised reaction to all of this, and more. (Read more...)

 

 
 Linking to Good Old Games' Redemption - Planescape Torment

Good Old Games, quickly becoming the sole recipients of my news-scouring attention, have apologised for their idiotic antics in the best way possible. With a Good Old Game. Planescape: Torment. Oh, my, yes. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Good Old Games Still Good

Good Old Games lives! The cads, eh? Follow the bluish-click road to find out what exactly caused the site to shut down. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Bioshock: Infinite, Innit?

Bioshock: Infinite! Irrational Games' return to the Bioshock universe isn't a return to Rapture. Instead, they're taking the concept of cloud gaming to uncommonly literal extremes. Read on for more details, a trailer, and some gameplay footage. And repeated use of the excellent word "dirigibles". (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Weirdness at Good Old Games

One of PC gaming's most valuable resources is coming to a tragically accelerated end. Or is it? Read on for more details of this strange tale. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to New Footage of Force Unleashed 2

Lucasarts' The Force Unleashed II will be hitting PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii and the DS on October 26th. Will it be a Force to be reckoned with, or will it have us yelling "It's a trap!" in gravelly Ackbar voices? The tension is Palpatinable. Click here to observe new footage of the upcoming sequel. (Read more...)

 
 Linking to Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Coming To PS3

Fondled by critics but tragically ignored by punters, two of the PS2's most beautiful games are receiving a lick of HD paint for a PS3 re-release. Click onwards to find out when you will be legally obligated to pick up your copy of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. (Read more...)

 

 
 


Avengers Assemble

Avengers Assemble is the eagerly
awaited superhero melée free-for-all
film frenzy from Joss Whedon. Starring
Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man,
Scarlett Johannson as a sexy lady,
and Samuel L Jackson as himself.
Review by Tanya Branagan!

 

 Linking to Avengers Assemble Review

Albert Nobbs

Albert Nobbs stars Glenn Close as
a woman passing as a man in 19th
Century Ireland. After she sets her
sight on a young woman, she finds
herself trapped in a prison of her
own making. Or was it society's fault?
Tanya Branagan finds out.

 Linking to Albert Nobbs Review

Titanic 3D

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of
the tragic sinking of a cruise ship that
caused the deaths of 1514 people,
they've made a 3D re-enactment in
which the horror and tragedy is
over-shadowed by a pasted-together
"love story". Review of Titanic 3D
by Elaine McDonald.

 Linking to Titanic 3D Review


The Cabin in the Woods

The Cabin in the Woods is Joss
Whedon
's fantastic new subversion
of the classic sexy kids in cabin
slasher flick. A must for comedy or
horror fans. Check out the review by
Tanya Branagan!

 Linking to The Cabin in the Woods Review

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is the most
anticipated action/thriller/children's
book adaptation to hit the cinemas
this year. Does it leave you hungering
for more? Games? Tanya Branagan
watched and judged.

 Linking to The Hunger Games Review