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How The Spike VGA’s 2011 Represented The Industry

December 15, 2011 in Gaming, Must Read

Mark Hamill (The Joker) & Tara Strong (Harley Quinn) VGA 2011 Seats

The Spike TV Video Game Awards are held annually and are considered a great event for the industry to come together to celebrate the end of another outstanding year for gaming. Every year after the show, there always seems to be a common outcry at how terrible the award show actually was and this year was no different.

The primary reason which sits at the core of the complaints is that Read the rest of this entry →

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Big Announcements From The Spike VGAs 2011

December 15, 2011 in Featured, Gaming, Must Read

Spike VGAs 2011 Live Stream

This past weekend the annual Spike Video Game Awards were held over in America. Developers use the event to show off exclusive footage and announce new games in development. This year was no exception as we were treated to some great announcements from the biggest players in the industry. After the break you will find a round up of all the new announcements and trailers and a few first impressions. Read the rest of this entry →

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Spike Video Game Awards 2011 Winners

December 14, 2011 in Featured, Gaming, Must Read

Spike VGA Awards

The biggest annual award ceremony for the video game industry took place on Saturday night. The Spike TV Video Game Awards were attended by developers, legends, fans and celebrities as they all congregated to share the success of the industry this year. You may have missed some or all of the winners as they were not all announced on screen so here is the full list of nominees, winners (Source: Kotaku) and my personal choices too after the break. Read the rest of this entry →

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PlayStation Vita Rooms London Preview Blowout!

November 27, 2011 in Featured, Gaming, Must Read, Technology

PlayStation Vita Rooms

The PlayStation community held yet another incredible preview event today, this time for upcoming handheld PlayStation Vita. The event had been arranged to reveal the launch titles that will become available with the European and American release of the console in February 2012 in addition to further mouthwatering information. The community were invited to go hands on with some of these titles at a location in London today and I was one of the lucky few who was invited to go along. 23 different games were playable which in itself was very impressive compared to the 6 odd games which were playable at the Eurogamer Expo in September. It would have been 24 but developers of newly announced title Read the rest of this entry →

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Assassins Creed Tour Part 2 Constantinople / Istanbul

November 15, 2011 in Featured, Gaming, Must Read, Photography

During the summer of 2010, I embarked on a trip across Europe and my adventures in Italy were heavily inspired by Assassins Creed 2. I scheduled in trips to Florence,Rome, Venice, Monteriggioni and San Gimignano to witness the locations and landmarks from the game in real life. It was a fantastic journey and a very surreal experience. I blogged during my travels and right up to this day The Assassins Creed 2 Tour post remains the most viewed article on my website. Little did I know that this past summer I would have the perfect follow up article.

A few months ago I visited the lovely country of Bulgaria and during my stay I embarked on a two day excursion to the neighbouring city of Istanbul in Turkey. This essentially continued my Assassins Creed Tour but with a big difference Read the rest of this entry →

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Battlefield 3 London Preview Event

October 22, 2011 in Featured, Gaming, Must Read

Battlefield 3 London Preview Event

PlayStation Access held a competition earlier this week where 20 lucky winners would be given the opportunity to play Battlefield 3 a week before release. I was chosen as a winner and attended the event last night in London.

Upon arriving, the hosts seemed to be online news site GameSpot and I was greeted by a large queue of about 70 gamers. Inside the building there were Read the rest of this entry →

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Uncharted 3 London Preview Event

October 16, 2011 in Featured, Gaming, Must Read

Nathan Drake Desk

The Union bar in London’s Greek Street played host to a very special event this afternoon. Representing The Pelican Inn from an earlier trailer shown for Uncharted 3, it was one of the first opportunities the public outside of the press were given the opportunity to get hands on with the game’s single player campaign. I was disappointed last month whilst at the Eurogamer Expo to discover that only the multiplayer part of the game was playable, although this event totally made up for it.

The bar itself had subtly been given the classy treatment with Uncharted 3 Read the rest of this entry →

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Eurogamer Expo 2011 – Ultimate Coverage Summary

October 10, 2011 in Eurogamer Expo 2011, Featured, Gaming, Must Read

Eurogamer Expo 2011 Banner

After two weeks of intense coverage of the Eurogamer Expo 2011, I have brought all of the articles together in this ultimate coverage summary for you to find your favourites easily. You may even discover a few articles you missed earlier. I hope you have enjoyed reading my impressions of the expo and I plan to do it all again next year. If you fancy coming along then the dates have been announced as the 27th to 30th September 2012 with tickets expected to go on sale in spring next year. Thank You.

Photo Galleries

Developer Sessions

Special Features

PlayStation Vita

Games Hands On

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Assassins Creed 2 Tour

June 18, 2010 in Eurotrip 2010, Must Read

Monteriggioni Castle With Vineyards Tuscany Italy

We left florence in the morning and headed out into the Tuscan countryside. We wanted to visit the 2 towns we had seen in the game Assassins Creed 2. We caught a train to Castellina in Chianti which was the nearest stop to Monterrigioni Castle. At the second stop massive hailstones started coming down and we were like oh crap we’re only wearing T-shirts and shorts. It was slightly out of town so we thought the weather would get better nearer and the sun came out one stop before we were supposed to get off. Unfortunately when we got off the train it was pouring down with very heavy rain. We ran out of the station and down the street until we found a cafe with a canopy and stood under it for a while. To make things worse the castle was Read the rest of this entry →

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