Archive for March, 2008

• Wii Mario Kart: Wheel Rip Off

  This little gizmo if your not too sure is a steering wheel attachment for the upcoming Wii Mario Kart, and its also a great big stinking rip off!. When you purchase the game you will recieve one of these, but should you actually have a friend who too wants to look like a fool on the sofa then yo...

• Wii – Online features Suck

  Popular online magazine slate have declared war on the Nintendo Wii's online features - in a recent article, Writer Jack Patrick Rodgers claims that the service is "Clunky" and a "Smashing failure" "It's legitimate to ask whether the Wii needs an online service as rich and powerful as Xbox Live...

• PS3 Hacked

  A Hacker who goes by the online name of Dragula96 has managed to get the classic "Hello World" application to run on his Playstation 3 console without any hardware modification. The app runs on both the 40 and 60gb models and under firmware 2.20 (the latest), video after the jump We will ...

• REVIEW: The Golden Compass

  I sat down to watch the big screen adaptation of Philip Pullmans novel without first reading it, and with most book to film conversions the paper version is usually much more deep, thoughfull and engrossing than their celluloid brother for the people who have actually had the time to read it. ...

• GTA IV Achievements Spoiler

  Looking from the screenshots we have got our grubby little mitts on, someone has managed to get the full list of Grand Theft Auto IV Achievements for the 360 version, It remains to be seen if they are indeed true or fabricated, but if they are real it makes for some interesting gaming when April 2...

• Nicolas Cage: Bangkok Dangerous Trailer

  Danny and Oxide Pang, the brothers who brought us cult horror movies "The Eye", "The Eye 2" and "The Messengers" are back and they have changed the genre to action for thier latest offering "Bangkok Dangerous" which stars Nic Cage as a hitman who can't finish his latest job. This version is a rema...

• Awesome DIY Arcade Cabinet

  A poster on VFDC went to Japan and was smitten with Sega's latest Lindberg style arcade cabinets, deciding against importing one at massive cost, he instead decided to build one with epic results! [gallery=26] The finished article is somewhat amazing and houses a 360, PC and PS3, hit the link be...

• PSP Memory Stick Add On

  This slightly odd looking, but handy little device is called the "UMEMD" (U-Mem-D not UMD)  from  Team Executer. Its main function is to hold up to four memory sticks in the compartment on your PSP that holds the UMD disc, which obviously means that the device is aimed at the less than legit amo...

• UK Mario Kart Competition

  UK gaming store "GAME" is offering gamers the chance to win this Mario Kart themed VW Bug by posting a fastest lap in any one of 30 stores around the country, all gamers who enter will recieve a certificate of their lap time (Much like the promotion for StarFox on the SNES all those years ago), an...

• GTA IV Map Leaked

  Some lucky gamer has got his hands on the game map inserts from the yet to be released Grand Theft Auto IV, and lucky for you he has decided to share his findings with the world via the internet, The images not only show the various areas of the latest game, but also the PS3 controller scheme for ...

• Sir Ian Mckellen Returns As Gandalf

  Sir Ian McKellen has confirmed that he will play Gandalf in the upcoming Hobbit movie, question marks were raised over wether the actor who played Gandalf in the Lord Of the Rings trilogy would return to the role for this new film, as Guillermo del Toro is directing the film, not Peter Jackson (al...