Tag: Downloads

Here we are again, the start of another year and another decade, and so it’s time to look back at the year that’s passed. As with 2008 I’ve decided to do a proper look back at my gaming for the past twelve months: so all the games of 2009 whether they were started, finished or [...]

For anyone looking for a quick way to add another ‘beaten’ title to their Backloggery listing, it seems Skate 2 is the game for you. Looking on the PS Store last night I spotted that, in EA’s infinite wisdom, they’ve released some day-one DLC that will unlock everything in the game (named the “Time is [...]

There’s a news story doing the rounds today, and unless I’ve really missed something, it makes very little sense to me. ActiBlizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has been talking about Guitar Hero: World Tour, and more specifically the user-generated songs the game enables dedicated souls to produce.
Apparently they’ve had something like 25,000 uploaded already (though [...]

So it turns out that EA and Sony have struck up a deal so that Mirror’s Edge, a title I’m really quite excited about, will be getting exclusive downloadable content on the PS3. This sort of thing isn’t new, as platform holders struggle to claim some element of exclusivity, and isn’t too dissimilar to the [...]

Each of the big three systems features some form of download game service these days – XBLA, the PSN Store and the Virtual Console for the 360, PS3 and Wii respectively – and there’s plenty to praise about each of them. However, one thing I’ve come to notice, and that disappoints me a little, is [...]

This generation, Sony has been pretty keen on embracing the digital distribution front. While they continue to release smaller games through the PSN just as Microsoft does with it’s Xbox Live Arcade, they have also released a few games in both digital and disc format. These releases, which so far have included Warhawk, Gran Turismo [...]

Before Guitar Hero became a household brand, it was a fairly out-there title in the gaming world. An insane guitar peripheral, coupled with head-bangin’ hits from the 70s and beyond? There were few things greater than this when it dropped, and I was happy to be an early adopter.
When Guitar Hero 2 came out, it [...]