British soldier hones MW2 perks in real...

Reports are coming in from Afghanistan at the sight of a British soldier who saved the lives of his fellow troops. How did he do it? Well, the insurgent lobbed a grenade down at the British soldiers, but the plucky Brit picked up the grenade and lobbed it back at him… as if he were playing a videogame. “I remember… Continue »

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 review

Bad Company is back. They’ve returned with a better single-player campaign, better jokes and bigger action. The game returns with an upgraded destruct-everything-around-you Frostbyte engine that made Bad Company such a compelling game. So compelling, even PC gamers wanted it. The story revolves around Sarges “last” tour with the military. And what an end to his career it ends up…. Continue »

Patch on the way for MW2 Ice Skating...

It seems to be never ending, MW2 has been out a while now and is still being plagued by glitches and hacks. Robert Bowling confirmed that a playlist update is on the way to resolve the issue of players being granted the power to slide at super speed around certain maps. From what I gather the glitch isn’t a hack- players experience a… Continue »

COOP deals with MW2

Revision3 internet TV show “COOP” handles the topic of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 alongside Dragon Age: Origins & DJ Hero this week. I’ve never posted a COOP episode on this site before but feel they handle the topic of the airport setting in MW2 so well it’s worth sharing with Irish people who are hitting shoryuken daily after… Continue »

Last weeks Irish Retail charts

FIFA 10 sat pretty for a few weeks but then Modern Warfare came in swinging its dick . Now sitting pretty atop the Irish charts you can expect it to be there for the remainder of the decade . Lego Batman and Indiana Jones decide to jump in to the top 20 all of a sudden, probably parents buying for… Continue »

Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer Review

Now before I start I have to say that I had a lot of issues with Modern Warfare 1’s Multiplayer component, the first was that it wasn’t Halo3 and being a big Halo Multiplayer fan that really pissed me off. The 2nd was that after I got to level 35 I just kind of got bored so once I had… Continue »

MW2 gets hacked and guess what?...

I think this video says it all really. It’s old news that the game was hacked but I hadn’t seen a video on till this morning so now I shall share it with yal. Gee the game looks so much better now that we have infinite ammo and can jump real high. Sigh. I’m sure Infinity Ward and Activision are real… Continue »

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2...

So, after weeks, and indeed, months of speculation, rumour, natter and banter Modern Warfare 2 flashbanged its way onto our consoles, whether or not you wanted it to. Today I’m going to bring you my verdict on the single player campaign mode, while my friend, and yours, THWR gives us the low down on multiplayer after a few days of… Continue »

Over a million users banned from Xbox...

So the big M finally got their God like vengeance on the modding masses of Xbox land yesterday. Major Nelson warned us about this via twitter last month but seeing as he is such a placid lad nobody really takes him all that seriously. Well if you were one of the 1 million hit by the Live ban hammer then… Continue »

Mailbox: Eyepet edition

It’s been a busy week in Shoryuken towers. MW2 has been causing controversy (review incoming!), Ratchet came in the door and all the usual tricks and treats. Today, more fun arrived, but as an antithisis to the bloodshed in Call of Duty, we got Eyepet – Sony’s high definition, real-world(ish) version of a modern Tamagotchi. In the next few days… Continue »