L.A. Noire Review
L.A. Noire is hard to place in any one genre. It has shooting, it has driving, it has point and click style investigation and more. It's a fresh experience for a critic to not be able to put a game into a specific genre because it gives so much variety…
TERA Goes Free to Play with Great Success
TERA the online RPG released in Western World in May of last year to mixed responces but generally well recieved for the most part. The game is your classic fantasy MMO but with a brave new twist of the combat system rather than the usual 'move out of fire, but…
Guardians of Middle Earth Gets an Exciting DLC Character
The first console exclusive MOBA game Lord of the Rings: Guardians of Middle Earth released in December of last year hoping to bring the gameplay of League of Legends and Dota2 to the console players. Scoring a strong 71/100 on metacritic the game has seen good success bringing the genre…
The not-quite-daily Steam Spotlight 12/03
Steam are putting on yet more sales today so let's dive in and see what's worth parting with your money for. The Red Faction Collection is on sale today for £7.49 you get all the games of the series from the original game to Armageddon plus the DLC for less…
Call of Duty Black Ops 2 gets Micro-transactions
As of tomorrow, Activision are introducing micro-transactions into Black Ops 2 for Xbox360. The items for purchase will be available at a later date on all other platforms. These micro-transaction purchasables are said to not effect gameplay but be little luxuries for players such as weapon skins or other none-combat…
EA Registers Plants vs Zombies Domain
EA have recently registered the domain names of PlantsVsZombiesAdventures.com, PlantsVsZombiesAdventure.com and pvzadventures.com hinting towards a possible new step towards a new Plants Vs Zombies game. The domains were registered on March 6th, beating domain squatters to it and avoiding a headache for themselves. Plants Vs Zombies 2 was announced in…
The No-Where-Near-Daily Origin Spotlight
Origin have a sale on right now. All 3 Mass Effect games are now on sale on Origin right now through March 12th. Mass Effect is only $7 while Mass Effect 2 is a low $10. The Mass Effect 3 Digital Deluxe edition is also there for only $15, which is insane. The…
The not-quite-daily Steam Spotlight 09/03 – Mini Edition
Let's get straight into it shall we? Angry Birds Space is on Steam for the low price of £3.19. For less than £5 this game should keep you going over a long weekend, so why not part with some coins and play this new edition of the mobile game that took…
Arma III Alpha Available on Steam
It's not very often games will be confident enough to release a less than full build to the public, let alone an alpha build. But the guys behind Arma III are so confident in the game that they are selling the Alpha build of Arma III on steam for £19.99. …
Tomb Raider hits 1 million sales in less than 48 hours
The newest game from the Tomb Raider franchise, which is a reboot to the series has sold 1 million copies in under 48 hours. The game has recieved reviews of praise from nearly every game reviewer and is proving very popular with the community. The franchise was in a very…
The not-quite-daily Steam Spotlight 08/03
Yet more deals from Steam this week making us all the poorer but yet all the happier with our games collection, so let's dive straight in. Football Manager 2013 is on sale now for only £14.99, this is the second 2013 game Steam have dropped the price on this week and…
Unreal Engine 4 will be Supported by Playstation 4
The Unreal Engine is one of the video game industry's longest used game development engines and today Epic Games announced that the newst version of the development software will be usable on the Playstation 4. Epic is providing the resources Sony need to fully implement the Unreal Engine 4 into…
The not-quite-daily Steam Spotlight 07/03
Another not-quite-day another load of deals from Steam to you, the lovely PC gamers, let's dive in! The Darksiders II franchise has a nice little price drop to day, you can pick up the core game for only £11.89 which is a steal for one of the best games to come out…
Dead Space 4 Effectively Cancelled UPDATED
EA has effectively axed Dead Space 4 after poor sales of Dead Space 3 videogamer.com told us today. The development of Dead Space 4 being ceased and the effective axing of the franchise has come as a shock with the cliff-hanger ending of Dead Space 3 leaving the way open…
Reasons to be Excited for the Rest of 2013
So the hype of the Playstation 4's announcement has calmed down, Crysis 3 has come out and gone, Aliens: Collonial Marines came out and dissapointed the world so surely all the things worth looking forward to have been and gone right? Wrong... I'm going to give you a list of…
SoftKinetic Powers Gesture Recognition and Control at Mobile World Congress 2013
Since the days of the Playstation 2's Eyetoy, gesture and montion controls have come leaps and bounds; from the Wii, the Playstation Move to Xbox Kinect. The influx of user gesture controls over the usual gamepad set up has opened the doors for more and more technologies to be combined…
Star Wars 1313 could be ‘on hold’
At E3 2012 Lucas Arts impressed the gaming world with their upcoming game; Star Wars 1313. The game looked liked it would be visually pleasing and the story like looked like it could be a refreshingly well written one, after the dissapointments of The Old Republic and the Star Wars…
The not-quite-daily Steam Spotlight 28/02
Steam are being super generous again by giving yet more sales on great titles which you certainly shouldn't miss! Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and the season pass are on sale now for only £15.99! This close-future shooter is definitely worth a purchase and with all the DLC content included you'd…
ShootMania Storm and TrackMania 2 available on Steam
Ubisoft's Mania Planet, known most of all for their titles TrackMania and the up coming ShootMania Storm have announced that all there game services will be available through Steam, including ShootMania's open beta. Anne Blondel-Jouin, Nadeo Publishing Managing Director had this to say about the Steam releases: "This partnership with…
The not-quite-daily Steam Spotlight
Here at VGU we love playing games, we also love saving money, and who lets you play games and save money better than Steam? This new feature will be spotlighting games that are currently on offer on Steam which we at VGU strongly suggest you play. These games won't always…
Impire Review
Impire is a dungeon master strategy game for PC, only playable on steam from Paradox Interactive and developed by Cyanide Montreal. On first appearances Impire looks like your standard dungeon master game with slightly prettier artwork and design. However, having played the game for a while it actually pleasantly surprises…