Microsoft: There will be a Halo Movie

There will be a movie, Microsoft’s Frank O’Connor said at a Halo panel at the Future of Television East conference last week. “We want to have Halo on any screen we have access to,” said O’Connor. After the panel, a high level network executive came up up to O’Connor and said, “We want to do something [...]

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LOTRO is Taking the Hobbits to Isengard in Next Expansion

Turbine have announced the next major expansion to Lord of the Rings Online will be paying Saruman a visit with the aptly named Rise of Isengard, appearing sometime in 2011. Considering that the fellowship have to deal with the White Hand forces in The Two Towers this comes as no surprise but nonetheless the prospect of a siege [...]

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WWE Smackdown Vs RAW 2011, Reviewed [PS3]

In the long-running yearly tradition, the holiday season sees a new addition to the THQ WWE Smackdown Vs RAW series. After a vastly improving the series with the 2010 edition, can THQ take the same sort of leap in the game, or is it more a case this year of refinement and tweaking?

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Rumoured Sequel to House of the Dead: Overkill

The one thing my Wii gets used for is light gun games. It’s the perfect console for it. So rumours of a sequel to House of the Dead: Overkill is enough to get the Wii out of the cave it is stored in and actually use it once more. Sources at Nintendolife have hinted that [...]

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European Lord of the Rings Online Free-to-Play Launches Today

European Lord of the Rings Online Free-to-Play Launches Today

While American LOTRO users have been sitting back and questing throughout Middle Earth without a care in the world, the EU lot have had to endure up until now. Codemasters announced that the reason for the delay was a contractual dispute that has been resolved, allowing them to press on with the release of the F2P [...]

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Vanquish, Reviewed [PS3, 360]

In an industry where sequels top the chart week after week, new IP announcements place a lot of pressure on the developers to deliver a game capable of holding its own against already successful franchises. Following on from one of the best new IPs of the year so far, Bayonetta, Japanese developers Platinum Games are once again [...]

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Valve’s Tale of Two Scares

It’s Halloween and Valve are in the mood for horror. In typical fashion Team Fortress 2 has rolled out the carpets with its second spooktacular fragfest, but new to the scene is the Left 4 Dead’s version of Halloween. Who does it better then? Let us start with TF2′s update dubbed Scream Fortress running from October 28 [...]

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Alan Wake The Writer DLC, Reviewed [Xbox 360]

  An imagination gone wild can be a dangerous thing, something which Alan Wake finds out in the final piece of DLC, The Writer. In a similar vein to the preceding DLC, The Signal, you find yourself trapped in the dark place struggling to hold onto your sanity amidst a landscape of warped versions of past [...]

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101 in 1 Megamix Sports, Reviewed [DS]

If there was a prize for the title that defined value for money the most, 101 in 1 Sports Megamix would be a worthy contender. That said, here at Nukoda, we stand by the idea of Quality over Quantity in our videogames of choice. Can a DS owner really need 101 different sports games squeezed [...]

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Contest: Win a Gamebook Adventures iOS game!

Due to the generous offer of Tin Man Games, we are holding a contest here on Nukoda and on the Touch of Gaming podcast to give some copies of the 3 game book apps away. If you are like me you remember playing Fighting Fantasy and Lonewolf books as a kid. I say playing, because [...]

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