01 Jul 2009
Alien Breed evolves...
Happy days are here again; a chance look at the Videogamer website has really cheered me up on this dreary summer morning... a new edition of Team 17's fantastic Alien Br
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01 Jul 2009
Don't wait for Battlefield, try Battlefield
Can't wait for Battlefield 1943 to hit the "shelves" next week? Then check out Electronic Arts' other offering...Battlefield Heroes on the PC looks absolutely cracking -
01 Jul 2009
A good year for gaming so far?
It's July already...and I can't say I've been overly enamoured with the quality of the big releases so far this year. Over at Kotaku, they've come up with some of the bes
01 Jul 2009
Head2Head: Call of Duty 4 vs Football Manager 2009
I must admit I winced at this matchup. As the names were plucked out of the hat, I rued the hands of fate; two of my favourite and most-played titles meet in the first kn
01 Jul 2009
Head2Head: the draw - first round knockout
Drum roll please... here are the randomly-chosen match-ups for the first knockout round of the Megabits Head2Head contest. Over the coming weeks, half of these final 16 w
01 Jul 2009
Head2Head: gaming greats face off
There's no World Cup football this summe r. There are no Olympic Games. Even the greatest video gaming event, the Electronic Sports World Cup, has been postponed because
01 Jul 2009
Head2Head: Gears of War vs Monkey Island 2
Somewhat of a mismatch here methinks! The ultimate shooter featuring macho gun toting types versus the serene yet often humorous point-and-click adventure from yesteryear
01 Jul 2009
Head2Head: Gran Turismo vs Streetfighter 2
Gran Turismo versus Streetfighter 2 - the creme de la creme of each respective genre. The game that dubbed itself "The driving simulator" roared onto the scene in 1997 -
01 Jul 2009
Head2Head: GTA IV vs Fallout 3
It’s no surprise that some of the match-ups in the Head2Head feel almost impossible to settle. Having spent weeks debating the shortlist of entrants, every game in the li
01 Jul 2009
Head2Head: Metal Gear Solid vs Fifa 09
Konami's Metal Gear Solid (MGS) wowed everyone in 1998. It was the sequel to the 1987 Metal Gear game on the MSX home computer where the protagonist Solid Snake introduce
01 Jul 2009
Head2Head: Syndicate Wars vs Halo
Yet another Head2Head that pits two beloved games agai nst one an other, in this case the cynical yet absorbing Syndicate Wars and the massively popular yet still strange
01 Jul 2009
Head2Head: Tetris vs Sonic the Hedgehog
Here we have two heavyweights battling it out - both console-defining titles. Tetris had been around for a few years before it earned a mass following when p ackaged with
01 Jul 2009
Incoming...Arm-a-geddon worms today
Xbox Live Arcade finally seems to be getting some quality games! As of today, what looks like the best Worms game ever is available: Worms 2: Armageddon . Great fun on- a
01 Jul 2009
Is WET a Tomb Raider beater?
Considering I really wasn't looking forward to many upcoming releases, this blog currently seems to be home to a hell of a lot of stories about games that are looming tem
01 Jul 2009
Live Arcade wishlist - revive these gaming greats!
Worms2 made a welcome return to Xbox Live Arcade last week, Monkey Island this week, and Bubble Bobble is coming soon... It's great to see that my gaming past is no longe
01 Jul 2009
New DLC ticks all the right boxes
Rockstar Games has announced the official release date for the next episode of D LC for GTA IV on the Xbox. October 29 will see the launch of the hotly-anticipated downlo
01 Jul 2009
A nice Friday night in...
I downloaded the beta for 1 vs 100 on the Xbox last night with a bit of trepidation. It had been advertised on my dashboard for some time and I'd seen countless websites
01 Jul 2009
On the Brink...of greatness
You may have seen me wax lyrical about sure-fire sandbox hit All Points Bulletin (APB) , which is due out sometime next year...well, here's another tasty morsel to whet y
01 Jul 2009
Review: Terminator Salvation
There's nothing more satisfying than that end sequence scrolling up the screen accompanied by a raft of achievement points. I'd spent the last few nights controlling John
01 Jul 2009
To DLC or not to DLC...that is the question
Here's a topic that will divide the room...downloadable content (DLC) is a waste of money. Discuss. I must admit that I can't help but feel a little hard done by with DLC