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Rocket Chainsaw’s E3 Conference Guide
In only one week the annual event gamers all around the world know, love and fear will roll around. We’re talking of none other than the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3 as it’s known to the common, trendy folk....
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See Rocket Chainsaw’s 1st segment on New Game Plus!
If you missed our first segment on New Game Plus tonight, have no fear – because, the episode is now available online to enjoy as well! In this month’s segment, we discuss our E3 predictions for the coming event. Ho...
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Preview: DmC: Devil May Cry
It’s fair to say that there’s been a lot of fan controversy over DmC: Devil May Cry, which is ostensibly a reboot of the franchise, eschewing the silver-haired bad-boy protagonist Dante for a younger, dark-haired an...
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Preview: Company of Heroes 2
At a Pre-E3 THQ event held last week, I had the chance to view a pre-recorded presentation from developers Relic Entertainment on the next big project – Company of Heroes 2. The name of the project should be enough to g...
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Preview: Torchlight II
When it launched, Runic Games’ Torchlight was as close to a spiritual successor to the Diablo franchise as seemed possible. Max and Eric Schaeffer, the two original creators of Diablo, founded the studio and brought on board Di...
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Australian Gaming Bargains – 25/05/2012
Today’s bargains round-up is a little quieter than previously. Max Payne 3 continues to be easy to find on any console imaginable, while the most notable new addition is likely to be Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, which tho...
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Jenova Says Games Should Be Relevant To Real Life
Jenova Chen, that is. He’s the game designer at Thatgamecompany, which recently released the popular game Journey for PlayStation 3. You only have to take one look at Journey to see that it’s a little different to y...
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Australian Gaming Bargains – 17/05/2012
It’s a pretty quiet week this week on the bargains front. Nary a store has released their new catalogues and there are few new releases. Except for a little game called Diablo III perhaps, which can be foundon PC for $58....
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Feature: Shadowloo Showdown 2012
The doors to Shadowloo Showdown, the largest fighting game tournament in the southern hemisphere, were wide open last weekend. 2012 marked the third running of the Melbourne-based Shadowloo event, and the attendance was higher ...
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Preview: Hitman: Sniper Challenge
The world may only have officially learned of the existence of pre-order bonus Hitman: Sniper Challenge today, but thanks to Namco Bandai Partners & Square-Enix, I’ve had a few days to learn the ins and outs of this n...
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Australian Gaming Bargains – 10/05/2012
This week’s bargains roundup takes a bit of a break in intensity from past weeks. With few new releases to speak of, many retailers are instead gearing up for Mother’s Day commemorations. There are still some intere...
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Obscure Retroness #2
Welcome to the second installment of Obscure Retroness! Capcom and fighting game fans rejoice, because today we’re going to pick at one of their finest video game adaptations: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure for the Sony PlayStation a...
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Pre-Production Footage Of Assassin’s Creed May Surprise You
Something that you may not know is that Ubisoft’s 2007 release, Assassin’s Creed, started life as a new Prince Of Persia game. Thanks to one of Ubisoft’s ex-sound designers though, we’ve been given a gli...
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Preview: Hands-On With Dragon’s Dogma
Capcom’s upcoming action RPG, Dragon’s Dogma, is a slightly unusual beast. As I’m sure that many of you have tried the recently released demo, you’ve probably started to make your own conclusions about t...
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Speculation: Eternal Darkness 2 for Wii U
“Deep in the bowels of the Starship Rocket Chainsaw, the monkeys work tirelessly, hunched over a forest of blinking terminals, attending to printers spitting out an endless cycle of repeating binary. Every line of code an...
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Australian Gaming Bargains – 26/04/2012
This week is a rather slow one on the bargains front. The most notable new release game has to be Prototype 2, which can be found for the price of $78.00 at several outlets. Outside of this, Big W has a pretty impressive listin...
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Preview: Diablo III
The original Diablo more-or-less invented the point-and-click action RPG genre, and its wide variety of monsters and generous loot drops made it an addictive and fun title. Diablo II took the concept online, and became one of t...
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Interview: Toshimichi Mori from Arc System Works
This interview was contributed by Brad Jolly(@DYoshii), co-host of New Game Plus, airing tonight at 10:30pm on Channel 31, as well as being posted online. The Blazblue series has continued Arc System Works’ lust for 2D fi...
