Think you can burn rubber and slide into a slipstream just as speedily as any reckless professional racing car driver? Head over to Real-Time Racing where they’ve just opened a registration – ahem – drive to find the 5,000 top video game speed demons in the world. (more…)

Too hot and bothered to get up off the couch but sick of sitting there with drops of sweat slowly dripping down your back? Check out five classic video games that’ll take you a world away from the sticky heat… (more…)

If you like Guitar Hero and Rock Band then Rhythm Heaven for the recently-released Nintendo DSi is going to blow your damn mind. Known in Japan as Rhythm Tengoku Gold and in Europe as Rhythm Paradise, Rhythm Heaven is a musically inclined gamer’s dream, using taps, flicks, holds and slides with the stylus (or your finger) to perform a wide variety of mini-game “tasks,” such as filling up robots with fuel or playing ping pong, all done in-sync with the music. If you get too much off the beat or miss beats entirely, you lose. (more…)

Hankering after some cool new content for your new Nintendo DSi but can’t be bothered to deal with the unsanitary oiks who man the register down at your local video game store? Get hooked up to the new DSi Shop and start downloading exclusive titles now.

Available from the NintendoDSi site, launch titles on offer include the elastic tongue antics of Bird & Beans, the magic-tastic Master Of Illusion, the underwater puzzler Art Style: AQUIA, the micro-game shenanigans of WarioWare: Snapped!, and the cerebral pretensions of Brain Age Express: Math.

Now, go get to spending those DSi Points…

Strap on your ass-kicking boots and get ready to roll like a 10-inch tongued rockstar with the Gene Simmons axe controller for Playstation. Available for both Guitar Hero and Rock Band, this three-quarter replica of the Kiss bassist’s legendary axe bass guitar is custom-painted with the original finish and comes compatible for Playstation 2 and 3. It offers five high and low fret buttons, up to 30-feet of wireless range along with USB connectivity. All you need now are the groupies (and some skills.)

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Anyone who follows gaming, Spiderman, Comic-con – or any variation of the previous three, knows of the impending release of the new Spiderman game. One of the only latest superhero games NOT to be released with an accompanying movie – Web of Shadows appears to be a decent attempt at combining superhero games with epics like Resident Evil.

The trailer is pimp, but I reserve the right to bash when the title is released.

E3 rages onward, and like any gaming expo, one of the main orders of the day is the sequel. Some people hate sequels, and rightfully so. A sequel done poorly is just a rehashing of the original game with new stuff added that either ruins what was fun about the original or just feels boring. Take Unreal Tournament for example. The 99′ edition was bitchin’. Every release after that, less so. They announced UT3 today and no one gives a shit because nothing feels fresh and all the old classic stuff that people loved has been squeezed out. (more…)