Some games are utterly timeless. Super Mario Bros is still perfect. Soul Calibur 1 is still beautiful. But this is GR’s Week of Hate, after all. So here are the once-great games that might shock you if you play them today. ... » Read More

12 Jul 2007

Sony Press Conference Lowdown

PS3 Feature | MotorStorm

Sony's annual E3 press conference opened with what could have been the biggest reveal of the entire show if it hadn't been leaked last week: the new $499 price of the PS3, as well as the introduction of a new $599 model that comes with an 80GB hard drive and a copy of online-enabled dirt racer Motorstorm. This left biggy-wig Jack Tretton (who began the event speaking through his character in the PS3 virtual world Home) to launch right into the publisher's game-centric, four-part ... » Read More

14 Jun 2007

Smash your way to first place in MotorStorm online

PS3 Feature | MotorStorm

In single-player, MotorStorms AI is aggressive. It angrily knocks you about, nudges you into obstacles and sends you hurtling over the sides of cliffs. And youre only racing unthinking robots blindly following strings of code. When you play online youre racing against real people. And people are bastards. And these particular bastards will stop at nothing to batter you off the course and, if you have a headset, youll be treated to a slew of swears at every turn. But it gives every race a sense ... » Read More

17 Nov 2006

MotorStorm

PS3 Feature | MotorStorm

Friday 17 November 2006 MotorStorm is probably one of the best games that Sony's PlayStation 3 has to offer - it's fast, gorgeous to look at and it gets ever more thrilling every time we see it. Which is amazing, given our first hands-on left more than a little to be desired. So, for a glimpse inside the brains behind the game, we caught up with lead designer Nigel Kershaw and designer Jed Ashforth and bombarded them with questions. We've heard MotorStorm is only going to be released in ... » Read More

23 Mar 2006

PS3 in motion

PS3 Feature | MotorStorm

Sony big-wig Phil Harrison's keynote speech at the Game Developers Conference on Wednesday was focused mainly on Sony's hardware and online initiative, but all that stuff is meaningless without games to back it up. Fortunately, several developers took the stage during the keynote to finally give us a glimpse of what the PS3 really looks like in motion - and for the record, it looks ... » Read More

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