With 2011 just about to wrap up, it's no surprise to see all the best and worst lists coming out. But how about gaming personalities? News to me. Especially more so seeing one with quite a lot of local representation, including two of your favourites from Level 3!
The Anti-Gravity Gaming Network have put up their nominations for the 2011 Gaming Personality of the Year, and from the Level 3 team, you have a choice of either Jason or Kirsty, in addition to a bunch of other personalities and broadcasters. Also seems fairly open to nominations, so if you think of another cool Level 3 dude to add, you can try nominate.
This week in Level 3, we close out the year with a look at some of the games that defined 2011 - for better or for worse. Included is our looks at Homefront, Portal 2 & Shadows of the Damned. We even have more from this years Battle Arena Melbourne!
You know what the gaming industry needs more of at times? PR Gaffes of the most sheer, bloody stupidity. Earlier this year, we had 2K Games drop The Redner Group as their PR company after they publically revealed their plans to select who gets to review future 2K games. Now, we have the tale of Ocean Marketing. And this has to be seen to be believed.
Harvey Norman and video games have been two things that have not quite come along together as well as people would like. Sure, the retailer has been getting slowly better at the whole selling video game thing, but tell me, how many of you would've expected the company to open up an online store selling directly imported video games?
If you're a fan of chiptune music or just plain curious about it you may have heard of the upcoming Blip Festival, celebrating the style of music with a variety of artists all over the world coming to Melbourne in the middle of February.
That said, all we had was an announcement with no indication of which artists would perform. Today the first round of artists has been revealed with a second round promised closer to the event which will bring the grand total of performers to nineteen.
With the year almost at a close, it was looking to be something of a relief that we hadn't heard any news of a game being refused classification for a while. But just as it all got quiet and we weren't expecting anything - BAM, we get word that EA's upcoming reboot of Syndicate has been refused classification by the Australian Classification Board.
It's getting close to the end of the year and there is really not much to review but we have some trailers from the VGA awards to show. We also have some more interviews from BAM and an interview with Andrew Owen from Monash Uni, the king of computer game boot camps
If the Michael Bay films haven't satisfied your lust for Autobots vs Decepticons then hopefully High Moon Studio's follow up Transformers - Fall of Cybertron will. It follows the events of the well-received War for Cybertron and continues the war between the "Robots in Disguise" for their home planet.
Back when Alan Wake was initially announced in the space year 2006, it was completely different to what we eventually got. Mostly in the fact that it was initially a PC game that had gotten scaled back before becoming console exclusive. And thanks to some industrious tinkerers, those who still refuse to play the game on anything bar a PC may finally have their wish.
