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GamingLives Podcast Episode 5

GamingLives Podcast Episode 5

After a week’s break, the GamingLives Podcast is back for its fifth episode, celebrating the week on GamingLives with some extended discussion from Adam, Ben, Lee, Mark and Lorna. This week we’re talking Diablo III, following up from Ben’s experience in the recent closed…

GamingLives Podcast Episode Three

GamingLives Podcast Episode Three

And so the GamingLives Podcast becomes a trilogy, with the completion of episode three. This week the team travels back to the good old days to ponder the generational gaps between gamers; will a game like GTA IV ever be considered as “retro”? Lorna gets…

Burnout CRASH! – Hands-On Impressions

Burnout CRASH! – Hands-On Impressions

So, maybe it wasn’t the announcement we were all looking for from Criterion. Burnout Paradise, a regular game of choice for the GamingLives community, was released way back in 2008, with development finally coming to an end in the Fall of 2009 with the release…

Forza Motorsport 4 Preview: Better with Kinect?

Forza Motorsport 4 Preview: Better with Kinect?

In less than the same amount of time it has taken Sony to knock out just one Gran Turisimo title, Microsoft and Turn Ten Studios have managed to turn out three Forza Motorsports. These aren’t just cheap bolt-on sequels either, they were full almost ground…

A Kinected Future, No Thanks.  Day 3 – Pt1

A Kinected Future, No Thanks. Day 3 – Pt1

Up early and bundled into a cab, we hauled ourselves over to the Galen Center for early o’clock for the first conference of the day – Microsoft.  This was the one that I was looking forward to the most.  *This is a message from future…

Kinect: First Impressions

Kinect: First Impressions

First, this purchase was for research purposes only. Honest. After talking one of my best mates out of buying one on launch, it was rather hypocritical of me to tweet a picture of my lovely Kinect equipment on launch day. Worry ye not though,…

Kinect: Too Much Or Just Right?

With the Kinect prices finally in, the analysis and commenting begins in earnest, with many, including industry analyst, Michael Pachter claiming that the price for the peripheral is too high for the hardcore at £129.99.  With Pachter suggesting that it won’t be a ‘meaningful  threat…