Onion Tears Those of you that have heard of the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals or PETA for short through gaming channels, probably haven’t seen them in a positive light. With outbursts that condemn Mario 20 years post date for cruelty towards raccoons or Pokémon for the mistreatment of animals, [...]

There is finally a way for players to master The Way of the Voice without feeling stupid. Bethesda will release an update this month that allows Kinect owners to integrate the device into their game. And lo; it’s actually a subtle implementation, so don’t worry. Kinect will only make use of over 200 voice commands; [...]

Valve is well known for its love of the modding community, and a new Steam feature introduced in the last few days has cemented them as one of the gaming industry’s best developers for modders. A new Steam feature called ‘Steam Collections’ allows users to group together mods that they’d like to download, and add [...]

PC users can access the new Skyrim update via Steam as of today. The update, which introduces a ton of new features to the game, was partially built during Bethesda’s ‘do-your-thing’ week, during which Skyrim’s developers spent time on whatever they thought would make the game better. Their biggest improvement: gory kill-cam footage and custom [...]

You can accuse Bethesda of many things, but skimping out on gameplay and content is not one of them. The Elder Scrolls developer is hard at work adding a whole new set of extra content to their latest game, Skyrim, in an effort to increase playability of the epic RPG even more for the millions [...]

PC gaming is a zombie! That’s how we can view this ancient one-liner after the PC Gaming Alliance have released their report. Together with the research unit DFC Intelligence, they’ve concluded that the global PC games market has seen a $18.6 billion tag in revenues in 2011. This would represent a 15% growth. Apart from [...]

For a long time, signing an exclusive deal to release your game on only one console was a sure-fire way to produce a hit. With the might of internal advertising divisions behind them and the fanboys out in full promotional force, games like Metal Gear Solid 4 and Halo, which were single-platform games, were typically [...]

While Skyrim’s interface hasn’t been quite as toned down as Oblivion’s was, it’s still a frustrating experience for PC gamers. The console-style menus and clunky controls making switching between the map, the menu, and the game itself rather slow and annoying, especially when you’re on a very location dependent quest. After a couple of third-party [...]

Starting the THQ good news train has paid off rather quickly. In this week’s game charts from the UK, UFC Undisputed 3 has reached the top spot in its first week of release. The fighting brawler is one of the ‘core games’ that the publisher has vowed to be relying on, along with a string [...]

Bethesda have hinted for the last week or so that the game’s Creation Kit would come with a few surprises. Now that it’s out, we can tell you what they are. The biggest is the high resolution texture pack, which increases the detail level of the game’s textures, vastly improving its graphics and the quality [...]