The GameShadow Blog

OK, I found this a bit odd, and mildly worrying. The big supermarkets appear to be taking an interest in shifting consoles it appears. Today there is news in MCV that Game (and other indie retailers) have been rushing out all over the country and snapping up cheap Xbox 360 concoles from Sainsbury and other [...]

Don’t get me wrong, Gameshadow does an excellent job of delivering the latest demos to the PC masses. Problem is, not only are the major developers of the gaming industry threatening to abandon the PC gaming market in a ‘ the grass dollar is always greener’ nod to console owners but the cross-platform games that are [...]

  As an upshot of the Diablo III unveiling last weekend, Blizzard let slip a whole load of juicy goss on the subject of their other projects. To be honest, Blizzard isn’t the most exciting developer in the world – the emphasis is firmly on polish and evolution rather than on actually coming up with [...]

  Mark this one down as highly sceptical, but you never know. Intellisponce is a Market Research firm responsible for data belonging to a number of high end developers and publishers. Earlier in the week, the firm’s database was ripped open, and its contents splurged all over the web – including details on a previously [...]

This is deeply cool stuff. Let’s get those boring targets replaced with Nazis and we’re away!

And what’s more, it’s true. Let the backlash commence! Hit the image below to find out what I’m yabbering about.

EB Games, one of the largest video game retailers in the world – and, bizarrely, nothing to do with Electronics Boutique UK, owner of GAME – is said to be arguing with Microsoft over AUD 10 million worth of faulty 360s. The infamous ‘red rings of death’ issue which lead to thousands of 360s being [...]

Ah the heady days of spending all day in the arcades with a mate, hiding in a corner trying to kick him in the face from across the room. I speak, of course, of my long-time fascination with Dhalsim – yes, I had to look up the spelling - and his cowardly, freakishly long limbs. My [...]

“PlayStation Network is extremely interesting because it’s a more flexible space,” states Riley Cooper, of Tomb Raider Anniversary fame. In the good old days before I discovered the PC was the answer to my gaming needs, consoles were straight forward. All the controllers were pretty much the same, there was none of this online malarkey… [...]

I’m a big fan of decent writing in games. So much so that I’ve adored some stinkers for making me laugh (Armed and Dangerous), and hated some fantastic titles for their disappointing narratives (Bioshlock). I’ve recently been playing Phoenix Wright and Hotel Dusk on DS. They’re both elements of the prestigious recent movement towards reinventing [...]

Merry Christmas to all those countries that worship the eternal god, consumerism. Hello to everyone else. Yes, the Christmas rush is well and truly over. All the games that were going to get rushed into production in time for the big day are already sitting under Christmas trees, and all the releases that didn’t quite [...]

Call it opportunist, call it cynical exploitation, call it downright cheeky or just call it a good marketing idea – we’ve just discovered that The Carphone Warehouse have managed to get hold of some Nintendo Wiis (which as most gamers are aware are currently harder to get hold of than a decent English football manager) and they’re offering [...]