Lights. Camera. Nostalgia!

Four words… first word… film? Second word… three syllables… sounds like… silences? Licences! Ah! I know ‘film licenses are shit’. *Touches nose*

See we can all be Lionel Blair and we don’t even need a cheat mode. It’s a universal truism. Film licenses are indeed…

Split/Second: Velocity – First Look

There are a lot of driving and racing games released every year, and sometimes it can be difficult to know which ones are worth playing or not from an over-populated market. They tend to be divided into two camps; those that aim for ever greater…

Family Values

They say that for a male the hardest job you can have is that of being a father whereas, in my opinion, it’s more of a job of keeping your nerve when people are judgemental because you are a father. It’s bad enough these days…

German U-Turn on Violent Games

After getting smacked by the weight of a petition boasting over 73,000 signatures, the German government has had to sit up and take note of the vociferous protest against the banning of violent videogames.

A country notorious for the ferocity of its ratings board, early…

Alien Breed: Impact – PS3 and PC

While many Xbox360 fans of the revered Team 17 classic, ‘Alien Breed’ may have been delighted when the revamped Alien Breed: Evolution hit XBLA, PC and PS3 users were left out in the cold.  Team 17 have have now redressed the balance, however, and gone…

Mass Effect Heads For Hollywood

Not that we’re cynical or anything, here at the GamingLives Batcave, but we’re just surprised that it has taken the film studios this long to grab the teets of this particular, potential cash cow.

It would seem that the adaptation of games to films continues…

Doom II comes to XBLA

Today, the 3D pixelated blood and gorefest that is Doom II finally hits the XBox Live Arcade scene with more entrails and flying eyeballs than a barbecue at Hannibal Lecter’s.  An incredible sixteen years on from its initial release in 1994, Doom II is still…