Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from shoryuken.ie! While you’re having a very gamey Christmas, remember those less fortunate and donate to Childs Play

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Helghast goggles

Call of Duty caused a stir last year when Activision released a pricey special edition with night vision goggles. Sony, not one to be shown up, will release a special edition of Killzone 3 with their own goggles. Rather then being useful in battlefields, they’ll be useful in fancy dress parties – if you dress as...

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Preview: Killzone 3

So today at the Playstation Hub wasn’t just a chance to sample the delights of Sony’s offering in Dublin, it was also a chance for us to catch some games before the public do. One of them we’ve been very excited for in Shoryuken towers for some time – Killzone 3. Many moons ago Sony released the original...

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Guerilla ex-heads form new studio

Guerilla Games (Killzone) was formed in Amsterdam as part of a combination of two studios – one you may have heard of as “The Lost Boys”. Martin de Ronde and Michiel Mol are forming a new company called Vanguard, which will swallow up indie developers W!Games (Greed Corp). Their ethos will be to explore “the...

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Killzone 3 vs Crysis 2

Kings of graphics Crytek are under some pressure from Sony-owned developer Guerilla Games who have delivered some seriously impressive graphics on the PS3. Killzone 2 is still one of the most impressive demonstrations of what the console can do, and Killzone 3 is only going to do more, and better. So what happens when you pit the...

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