Curious Onions
Apple’s spiffy new iPad device mean for gamers? As with the rest of the world, we were all eyes focused on the Apple 27th event yesterday where Steve Jobs unveiled the new Apple iPad. With one of it’s core pillar’s being gaming and a positive reception by the press in general, what does Apples spiffy new device mean for gamers. Right... [Curious? - carry on reading, click here...]
Dark Void, Fantastic First Impressions, but was it enough? Having potential means to have possibility or capable of being but not yet. This is how I would best describe Dark Void. The game jets in with a fantastic first impression by blasting you into the sky in control of a jetpack wielding hero weaving between cliffs and tearing down enemy saucers... [Curious? - carry on reading, click here...]
It’s difficult to believe anything in Assassins Creed II as every event and every word uttered is drenched in deception and conspiracy. Having said that, there is absolutely no deception in saying that Assassins Creed II is a much better game than its first incarnation. Assassins Creed 2 takes all the intrigue and adventure from the first one... [Curious? - carry on reading, click here...]
Back in the early nineties around the time when Wolfenstein was being copied onto every floppy disc in the house and Sega was on the verge of releasing it’s Saturn home console, people all over the world were starting to experience 3D gaming for the first time. Later on the Playstation was released which really brought “3D games” home... [Curious? - carry on reading, click here...]
Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 Playstation 3
Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 Playstation 3 If you had walked into a store just two years ago (2007) and asked the sales assistant for a copy of Pro Evolution Soccer, he would have first looked at you with a confused look on his face and then recommended Fifa 07, all the while wondering why on earth you would have asked about PES in the first place. Things... [Curious? - carry on reading, click here...]
Dante’s Inferno Animated Movie is on its way! If you where planning on diving into the depths of hell to save the one you love, you’ll be happy to know that you can do it twice come February 2010. Dante’s Inferno: The Animated Movie will launch along side EA’s gaming title and will be available on both Bluray and standard DVD... [Curious? - carry on reading, click here...]
Win an Exclusive Uncharted 2 Press Pack
Win an Exclusive Uncharted 2 Press Pack Every once in a while we manage to get our hands on an awesome prize at Curiousonion. We have an extremely limited Uncharted 2 Press Pack to give away to one lucky winner. The press pack comes wrapped in old looking material and contains information as well as printed rare concept art from Uncharted 2. The whole... [Curious? - carry on reading, click here...]
PS3 Firmware 3.10 Improves the Friends List But Adds No New Functionality
Firmware 3.10 made its debut this week and it brings with it a host of changes, some of which more needed than others but non the less, its an update that does bring some welcomed improvements. New: Photo’s are now shown in a grid format as opposed the one line approach used before. The Friends List has been aesthetically updated. Facebook integration. Shortcuts... [Curious? - carry on reading, click here...]
Win Yourself a Copy of Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2 has finally arrived and while it’s said to be the biggest game of the year it’s a title not to be missed. If you have found yourself without a copy and are just itching to blow things up and rack up your head shot count, you now have the chance to win two copies of the game. Onelargepawn.co.za is giving away a copy of... [Curious? - carry on reading, click here...]
Ratchet and Clank: Crack in Time Review
Ratchet and Clank: Crack in Time Review Ratchet and Clank: Crack in time will exceed all your expectations and you will delight in the stunning visuals and breath taking level design, you will fall in love with Ratchet and adore Clank but most of all you’ll be enchanted by a wonderfully humorous story. Ratchet and Clank: Crack in Time is the... [Curious? - carry on reading, click here...]
The long-overdue Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Review
Let’s face it; we knew Uncharted 2 was going to happen. The moment we started Naughty Dog’s 2007 hit, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, and given their track record of creating trilogies, it was obvious that a sequel would eventually turn up. And believe us when we say, it did so in a big way! Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune was in many ways a big victory... [Curious? - carry on reading, click here...]
Borderlands: Blow Your Brains Out With This Review
Cell shaded graphics, a strange combination of an FPS and an RPG, online only in the form of co-op, very little hype or publicity, characters with names like ‘Lilith’ and ‘Brick’. All these things seem to point to a game of potential monumental failures. The promises were huge: “It’s like Fallout 3 but with a proper FPS focus”, there... [Curious? - carry on reading, click here...]
Intercepted Message Provides a Golden Oppertunity to S.African MW2 Gamers
Every now and then a golden opportunity presents itself to the gaming community of Johannesburg South Africa. Our sources that operate inside the industry have received word that Megarom (the S.Africa agents for Activision and other great gaming publishers) have intercepted an encoded message and are looking for someone who can decode it. We are not... [Curious? - carry on reading, click here...]
Pictures of the Uncharted 2 Press Pack
They say that the quality of an event can be judged by the quality of the catering. If you take that logic and apply to AAA game releases the same can be said for a games quality judged by the quality of it’s press pack. Uncharted 2 comes with a pretty sweet press pack. Just holding it in my hands makes me feel like Drake, the adventurer himself.... [Curious? - carry on reading, click here...]
World of Goo worth what ever you want to pay for it
Word of Goo, a great, quirky, 2d physics based puzzeler had celebrated it 1st birthday. In celebration 2D Boy, the games developer are offering the game at what ever price you think it’s worth. It normally goes for $20 but you can pay $0.01 if you wish to. The deal runs until 19 October and covers all versions of the game; Windows, Mac OS,... [Curious? - carry on reading, click here...]