Archive for December, 2008

Review: Midnight Club: Los Angeles

December 30th, 2008 – 12:11 am Posted by: Kyle

Developer: Rockstar San Diego Publisher: Rockstar Games Available on: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Reviewed on: PlayStation 3 Before I get into reviewing Midnight Club: Los Angeles, I feel I should state my views on the racing genre: I’m not a big fan of it. That said, I have had some fun with a few racing [...]

Valhalla In Adelaide

December 20th, 2008 – 1:07 am Posted by: Jordan
Filed as: Events,Games

Alienware and Valhalla LAN parties are teaming up to bring you the Gears Of War 2 Reloaded LAN Event in Adelaide, January 16 – 17th. Packing quite a punch over the last World At War Extravaganza, the next LAN event run by Valhalla will feature

Rockstar Reveal – Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Info + Images

December 18th, 2008 – 9:56 pm Posted by: Jordan
Filed as: Games

Rockstar Games have given more information on their first ever DS title revealed at E3 ’08 – Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Alongside the official box art above a worldwide release date of March 2009 was given; the official site is still bare bones but Rockstar are promising to follow this up with more info [...]

Game Damage Premiere – New TV Show Featuring Yahtzee, Yug and Matt

December 11th, 2008 – 8:59 pm Posted by: Jordan
Filed as: Events,Games,TV

Premiered in person at eGames ’08 was a brief preview of a new TV series being created and pitched worldwide by Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw (Zero Punctuation) as well as Yug and Matt (Australian Gamer); Game Damage. Game Damage Intro Described as “The Chaser’s War On Everything meets Top Gear… about video games” by Yug, the [...]

Preview: J. J. Abrams’ Star Trek

December 9th, 2008 – 4:02 am Posted by: Liam

The other day I received an invite to a preview of the new Star Trek film directed by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Cloverfield). This was quite a surprise for a couple of reasons: firstly the movie isn’t premiering until the 7th of May 2009 and secondly because Abrams had so far been decidedly secretive about this [...]

Call of Duty: World at War 24 Hour Launch Party

December 3rd, 2008 – 12:32 am Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Events,Games

Like most gamers I’m familiar with the Call of Duty series, in fact it’s one of my favourites so when I got the opportunity to go to the launch party for the newest in the series Call of Duty: World at War hosted by Alienware my geek squeal of glee rang out across the land. [...]

Canned Geek Podcast – Episode 26: You Got Zangief’d

December 1st, 2008 – 1:10 am Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Pod/Vodcasts

Will, Liam, Kyle and Kraden gather around the microphones to talk about what happened at the two big Melbourne events of November: Armageddon (pop culture expo) and eGames (video games con). From Armageddon we also have Steph talking with Gary Jones and Kavan Smith of Stargate. We also talk about Game1, American politics, Barrack Obama [...]