games
Shoryuken 2.0
Over the past year Shoryuken.ie has racked up thousands upon thousands of hits, comments and just about 1,000 posts. We were nominated for a blog award last year, and shortlisted this year. We’ve had contact from Irish radio outlets and broke news stories no one else did. On top of that we’ve brought you countless reviews, previews and news tidd-bits… Continue »
Futurestates – a play on...
Futurestates is a dramatical play which depicts the future world, as influenced by us videogamers. Anyone who’s seen the Matrix or ExistenZ will be vaguely aware of how this all plays out. It’s a 20 minute long piece which doesn’t do an incredible amount except ape previous, similarly themed works. It does look fantastic and has some great music at… Continue »
What’s in a review?
Recently, a news story posted here on shoryuken sparked a huge debate, so I thought I would blog about it… here. On shoryuken. The news story was the opinion of the people behind God of War III, a game which I am currently enjoying so you can enjoy my words later in the week and decide whether or not to… Continue »
Gears of War III
Rumours are today surfacing that the Epic games developed title for Microsoft starring Marcus “unnaturally large muscles” Fenix and his band of brothers are to return “soon” in the third installment. Not only that, the rumours floating around suggest a trailer will hit in April, and exclusive rights have been granted to our old chums at GTTV. The game, according… Continue »
Steam coming to Mac!
We first reported on these rumours here, so it’s worth getting some context on this story. As a long-time Mac user this news blows my mind in ways I couldn’t even fathom, but Valve have finally seen the white, brushed-steel light and decided that in April, us glorious users of OS X will legitimately get to play Source-enabled games, including… Continue »
Greed Corp review
W!Games represents a new lease of life in Dutch software development. The largest piece of entertainment produced in the country was Guerilla’s €43million monolith, Killzone 2. Perhaps with smaller ambitions, W!Games releases it’s second title, a rather more interesting affair then it’s first release; My Horse & Me. Set in a rich environment and world which will be revisited in… Continue »
DIT launch new MSc in gaming with...
Peter Molyneux, Creative Director of European studios at Microsoft Games Studios, and Peter Connolly, Executive Producer of Crackdown 2 for the Xbox 360 at Microsoft Games Studios, today launched a new MSc in Digital Games at DIT today as part of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (JDIFF). Molyneux and Connolly both spoke at the JDIFF 2010’s gaming forum, Controller… Continue »
Big Collision Games follow-up Post
As I’m sure most of you have seen the story of the Australian-based company going belly-up after their CEO took their IP and servers to run away from the company and set up shop here in Dublin, we’re following up in a new post with some new information. While we’ve received no contact or response from anyone involved, some investigating… Continue »
